The starting point of this event was a reflection on the notion of the future based on theoretical and methodological approaches that take the Amazon and its human and more-than-human inhabitants as their central political-speculative context. If the environmental crisis can be translated as a crisis of the Western imaginary—its institutions, philosophical references, modern political […]
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Indigenous Ontologies in Contemporary Amazonian Arts To see with the heart is a beautiful expression of the Candoshi Amazonian people. With a sharp poetic sense, this phrase conveys various modes of understanding and establishing relationships with the different forms of life and invisible beings that share the territory with the Indigenous communities of the Amazon […]
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Possible Futures: Imagination and Speculation to Resist in the Anthropocene Prof. Dr. Renato Sztutman(Universidade de São Paulo) The focus of this presentation is the place of imagination and speculation in the Anthropocene, a geological epoch in which humanity has become the in which humanity has become the predominant force, putting the integrity of the planet at […]
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The aim of the Plant Alterities event was to bring together researchers, both indigenous and non-indigenous, from different areas of knowledge in the human sciences who are interested in plant life and its multispecies entanglements. So-called “plant interactions” open up space for innovative and interdisciplinary approaches that invite us to experiment with different modes of […]
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Author’s presentation Moderator: Karen Shiratori (Anthropologist) Archeologist Eduardo Neves reconstitutes eight thousand years of human occupation in central Amazonia. The author will present his book in dialogue with anhtropologist Karen Shiratori. October 15 , 6pm Livraria da Travessa, Lisbon
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Presentation We will host a screening of the films Já me Transformei em Imagem (Brasil, 2008) by Zezinho Yube, Children of the Jaguar (Ecuador, 2013) by Eriberto Gualinga, and Tejiendo las Redes del Agua (Colombia, 2011), by Rafael Enrique Álvarez, followed by a discussion of the current situation of Indigenous struggles against extractivism in the […]
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For the West, Amazonia has been, over the centuries, a blank canvas upon which diverse conceptions of the natural world are projected: a Paradise already lost to the rest of the world; an El Dorado of fabulous riches; a territory of unsuspected dangers; the last redoubt of a wild nature; an area where unbridled extractivism […]
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Rivers are central to the existence of Amazonian populations, playing a key role in the way Indigenous and riverside communities get nourishment, travel and trade. The imaginary of these communities is determined by close contact with rivers, which are often equated with giant snakes, considered a source of life in local cosmologies. At the same […]
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In the last decades, several academic disciplines have undergone a process of restructuring triggered both by a deepening climatic and environmental crisis and by anti-colonial and anti-racist protests throughout the world. In Latin America, the increasingly important role of Indigenous and Maroon peoples, as well as of several other traditional communities, in politics and in […]
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