Social mapping

The aim of this essay is to contextualise the collective space that was created by carrying out the social mapping of the rural colonies in the municipality of Paranaguá, Paraná, and which arose from the urgency of the local social actors themselves to create a space that would allow for more in-depth discussions about the territory in question, together with the start of the second phase of the Localised Agri-Food System Project (SAL). The SAL project worked in the region from 2013 until mid-2015 and focused on the development of the territory by seeking co-operation between local social actors, making it possible to explain common potentialities and difficulties to the collective. To carry out this study, some principles of ethnography and semi-structured interviews were used as a basis, sharing Geertz’s (1989) concept of ＂being there＂, experiencing the daily life of the group in question. Still in the construction of ethnographic facts, the result of one of the aspects of social mapping - rural tourism - was the inclusion of the region in the calendar of Nature Walks, with its route called ’Circuito Serra da Prata’.