This text was originally published in Portuguese (2019) in Brazil and was also published in Spanish (2020) in Mexico, with great circulation due to the breadth of the approach taken on the historical and dependent formation in Latin America, the possibility of building a popular and territorial paradigm of research and cooperation with the studied subjects (participatory action-research), the practical meanings of reciprocity and popular knowledge (urban and rural, peasants and artisans) and, finally, about our concrete experiences of decolonial and counter-hegemonic territorial praxis.