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A knowledge production, as practice of the political and social struggle?

Cristina Reynals, Roxana Crudi, Alessio Surian.

This text’s function is to present the “Building an Urban Popular University in Latin America” international meetings, from the Urban Popular University (UPU) it’s an initiative of the International Alliance of inhabitants (IAI). As a start we’ll present the objectives of said University followed by the presentation of the experiences that were obtained in the UPU meetings realized both in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in may of 2006, and in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republican), this time in April of 2007. We’ll take our time to delve into this, to be more precise, right at the appropriation and production of new knowledge by the part of the participants in the second meeting. From the reports, as a methodological resource, we compromised ourselves to investigate any sighted subjectivity, the related experiences, the struggles and the possibility of being a reality changer through each other’s experiences and knowledge. Finally, all the reports will put in debate the progresses in the proposed method of meeting discourses, whose speciality parts from the persistent intent of sharing and producing each others’ experiences in the process of knowledge production.