Field and territory of Extension as an academic practice

Abstract

The university extension is an academic practice that has been built through daily experiences, thus forming relationships with the territory that characterizes and that allow it to be related it with different paradigms. On the other hand, some of its peculiarities, turned into descriptors, allow it to be distinguished from the other functions such as research and teaching, which at the same time –in my opinion– allows it to be frame it into the theory of fields from Pierre Bourdieu. Besides I propose to analyze some of its characteristics, emphasizing in the imprint of the territory and those who live in it, discussing the way in which some concepts and categories such as cultural capital, trajectories, subjectivities, tensions, dialogue, horizontality, purpose, habitus, among others contribute to its demarcation, but focusings the discussion in the way that the dynamics that configure the field in its structure, allow it to establish links and articulations with other academic fields, diluting of some of the limits that differentiated them, becoming the protagonist of the integral and integrative practice, in which they converge.