Abstract
This article analyzes the individual stories and collective experiences from members of the Uruguayan Agroecology Network. The theoretical approach highlights the link between political ecology and the sociology of bodies and emotions. It focuses on: the relationship between the productive-reproductive sphere; the relationship between the economic stages of production, distribution and consumption; the relationship with nature; community building and commonality and the Network's relationship with other organizations and with the state.
The understanding of the Network and its daily political activities allow us to reflect on the simultaneous dynamics between actions of autonomy and antagonism. This invites us to rethink the classic approach to social and socio-environmental movements as large organic, stable, hierarchical institutions, with elaborate and "consensual" discourses and actions faced with a clear "enemy" or specific demands on the State. The collective experience of the Network transforms the sensitivities of its protagonists, revaluing their modes of existence and their their relation between territories, expanding the antagonistic struggle to the defense and consolidation of autonomous processes, deploying strategies and practices that are against-and-beyond capital and neocolonial extractivism.