Feminismos e comunicação: pilares substantivos da extensão crítica

Abstract

This article aims to investigate, from a comprehensive perspective, the so-called field of critical extension and propose feminisms and communication, not as chapters within it but as transversal axes of any extension practice that is assumed to be critical, humanizing, decolonial, feminist and dialogic

The review of the history of university extension allows us to analyze the construction of its epistemological, theoretical-methodological, but fundamentally political framework, which has taken into account various modes of communication, as well as an incorporation of the gender perspective that is beginning to take prominence today.

This work is considered as a starting point to critically think about university extension, recognize the importance of the contributions of feminisms in extension practices and communicate the territories from critical perspectives. Along these lines, the analyzed experience of the Cortocircuito project allows us to compare the mainstreaming of gender and communication in the co-production of knowledge that represents an epistemological, methodological and political matrix as substantive pillars of critical extension.