Inhabiting the common. Ways in which the university extension takes presence from interwoven doings

Abstract

The purpose of this dossier was to call for contributions that could give an account from different narratives and perspectives of what is conceived and practiced as extension in different contexts, with special attention to the lines of thought-action from which we weave our positionality together with others, in pursuit of the construction of a common doing -in-, -from- and -of- university extension.
By focusing on the conjunction of inhabiting and the common, we appeal to the two agglutinators of meaning that cross and are sedimented in academic reflections and practices of various social and political collectives, linked to their quests to build intelligibility frameworks and enable creative responses to the complex context that cross the different realities of our America. In this way, combining both in an inhabiting of the common invited to generate processes of reflexivity -situated- focusing on the way in which these two terms meet or misencounter, travel and transform through the different geographies and redefine each other, from more or less institutionalized spaces such as extension projects and practices. In this line, the dossier contains contributions in various sections of the journal (here presented as part of a whole), which from various narratives point to the way in which inhabiting and the common are defined, co-defined and redefined by diverse collectives - environmentalists, socio-territorial, indigenous, feminists, peasants, neighborhoods, neighborhoods, among others - in their daily activities and in their encounters and interpellations with various actors.