Decolonial insurgencies for new ecological horizons

• Published in: Ambiente & sociedade 2021, Vol.24
• Main Authors: Empinotti, Vanessa, Lamas, Isabela, Iamamoto, Sue, Milanez, Felipe, Jacobi, Pedro Roberto, Lauda-Rodriguez, Zenaida, Milz, Beatriz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Activism; Activists; Articulation; Authoritarianism; Catholics; Colleges & universities; Community; Conferences; Coordination; COVID-19; Crises; Decolonization; Dissent; Environmental justice; Fishermen; Humanities; Indigenous peoples; Insurgency; Legislatures; Meetings; Mining; Mining industry; Morality; Pandemics; Political activism; Political dissent; Political ecology; Resistance; Rural communities; Social activism; Social movements; Sovereignty
• ISSN: 1414-753X; 1809-4422
• DOI: 10.1590/1809-4422asoceditorialvu2021l5ed

Organized by the Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences Professor Milton Santos, of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), with the support of CLACSO’s Working Group on Political Ecology(s) Desde El Sur /Abya Yala, the Congress involved a network of collaborations with several Brazilian universities: the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), the University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB), the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Chilean universities, the Catholic University of the North and the University of Chile, and social movements, with representatives of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), the Movement of Artisanal Fishermen and Fisherwomen (MPP), the Movement for Popular Sovereignty in Mining (MAM), the National Council of Extractivist Populations (CNS) the National Coordination of Articulation of Black Rural Quilombola Communities (CONAQ). [...]the proposal of this Featured Topic, building on political ecology and the Congress experiences, is precisely to be a space for the diffusion of some of these reflections and practices. [...]we open this volume with the article “Between crises and insurgencies: the political ecology in defense of shared living”, written by the organizers Vanessa Lucena Empinotti, Sue A. S. Iamamoto, Isabella Lamas and Felipe Milanez, offering a review of some theoretical paths of political ecology in recent years, pointing to possible contributions by this field of studies and to practices that may help confront the multiple crises we are living through. [...]The crimes of mining companies and the popular struggle towards mining” gathers the visions and experiences born from resistance movements against extractive projects led by activists in the struggle for popular sovereignty in mining, by Tádzio Peters Coelho, Magno Luiz Costa Oliveira, Raquel Neyra, Camila Mudrek, Charles Trocate, and Carolina de Moura Campos, offers reflections about the mining model and the major socioenvironmental crimes associated with it, such as those of Mariana, Barcarena, and Brumadinho, which threaten the integrity of the planet and human life.