2022
Sistemas de conhecimento prático dos povos indígenas do noroeste amazônico - Interview with João Paulo Tukano
Canal CES, 12th of december 2022
A presente entrevista com o Dr. João Paulo Tukano, ativista indígena do povo Ye’pamahsã (Tukano), antropólogo e professor na Universidade Federal do Amazonas, explora aspectos da sua trajetória de vida pessoal e acadêmica. O Dr. João Paulo apresenta várias críticas à ciência ocidental ao mesmo que explica as bases dos sistemas de conhecimentos desenvolvidos no contexto Amazônico. A fundação do Centro de Medicina Indígena da Amazônia e os seus significados políticos no contexto amazônico são alguns dos principais temas explorados por João Paulo. A entrevista foi realizada no Centro de Estudos Sociais na Universidade de Coimbra, no dia 13 de Outubro de 2022, em decorrência do evento “Humanidades Vegetais na Amazônia” organizado no âmbito do projeto ECO: Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin.
Amazonian Narratives: Nature as Subject - Interview with Juan-Carlos Galeano
Canal CES, 7th of july 2022
Juan Carlos Galeano is professor of Hispanic-American literature at Florida State University. In this interview, he discusses his life as an entry-point to Amazonian universes, where nature is a living agent, both in terms of organic existence and of symbolic meaning. Galeano’s work is a bridge that allows us to access the distant voices of Amazonian natures, through an important work of compiling the oral tradition of Indigenous peoples and nationalities and through the constant re-elaboration of these symbols by virtue of his poetic creation. The interview took place at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra on May 3, as part of the event “Rivers of the Amazon: Poetic Affluents and Contested Modernities,” organized by the project ECO – Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin.
Riverine Poetics, Nation and Power in the Amazon - Interview with Javier Uriarte
Canal CES, 5th of july 2022
This interview with Dr. Javier Uriarte, professor of Latin American literature at Stony Brook University in New York, explores some of his research topics, including travel literature, the Latin American territorial imagination and the processes of state consolidation in the Amazon. The interview took place at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra on May 3, as part of the event “Rivers of the Amazon: Poetic Affluents and Contested Modernities,” organized by the project ECO – Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin.