Abstract

FARFAN ESCALERA, Ricardo; PEREZ RAMIREZ, Carlos Alberto  and  ROMERO AGUILAR, Mariana. Thematic approaches of environmental studios on craft activity: arguments for its study in Mexico. Reflexiones [online]. 2023, vol.102, n.2, pp.122-152. ISSN 1659-2859.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rr.v102i2.49967.

Introduction: The different aspects that the study of the craft activity and its relationship with the natural environment can take have represented an important challenge due to the diversity of thoughts expressed, which entails a heuristic effort to identify explanatory elements that have meeting points and allow a pertinent classification to be established.

Objective: The objective of the research was to document the thematic orientations that frame environmental studies of craft activity, this through the review of different investigations that have addressed the relationship between crafts and nature.

Method: For this, a critical analysis of the bibliographical collection was carried out, identifying the thematic orientations. The investigation was carried out after the study of scientific articles published in indexed journals, during the period 2007 to 2022 available in open access in Spanish, English and Portuguese; in addition, the following criteria were considered: type of research, objective of the contribution, methodological approach, territorial scope, thematic and disciplinary orientation.

Results: Four groups of thematic approaches were identified: a) production process, access to raw materials, transformation, and technologies; b) impact of production on natural resources; c) forms of social organization in the local context; d) commercialization and consumption in the current market.

Conclusions: Although it is possible to establish a proposal for the classification of environmental studies of handicrafts, an expanded vision of reality is required that goes beyond parcel perspectives, considering the paradigms of complexity as arguments for their study in Mexico.

Keywords : Crafts; Environment; Process; Impact; Organization.

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