A dialogue about the Amazon and the Yasuní National Park in Ecuador in times of crisis, emphasizing the issues of environmental crisis and climate collapse, where different social problems such as inequality, racism, anthropocentrism and colonialism intersect and how this impacts Indigenous territories. The speakers reflect upon the confrontation of positions regarding what the Amazon should be for the nation state and for global capitalism and upon Indigenous cosmogonies that value the territory as a network of living relationships between different species. The debate considers Yasuní as a symbolic space of Ecuador’s environmental struggles and of the process of closing oil operations, as well as of the repair of a damaged territory from a Waorani perspective.
Speakers: Nemo Guiquita and Edgardo Lander
Thursday, February 13 at 5pm (Ecuador time)
Live Streaming through Facebook @EcoAmazon
In person at: MUXEUM. Av. Tarqui N 15 – 26 Ed. CEOSL, Quito