Decolonization and Lifelong Learning: a challenge to social and economic inequalities from the participative mobilization among marginal communities of South Salento

Abstract

Global macroeconomic contractions negatively influence wealth redistribution at territorial level, widely impacting training paths which in turn compress social mobilization opportunities, in a vicious mutually nurturing cycle.

Analyzing this phenomena through the disenchanted lens of the elitist philosophers and the cooperative vision of communitarian neoglocalism, chances of mitigating it emerge by activating networks and devices shared between territorial stakeholders who carry out co-programming and co-planning initiatives for integrating research, digital innovation and training, making possible the challenge to inequalities. This paper analysis results on a case study focused on enhancing citizenship awareness through service learning interventions as bottom-up socio-cultural decolonizing and counter-extracting level promoted by a subsidiary interaction between politics and education.