Um altar que se coma: ensaios da agrofloresta

Abstract

This work investigates ontological conflicts that emerge in the conjuncture of present socio-ecological collapses within a transdisciplinary approach. Historical and material conditions of Brazil's colonization processes are associated with the transformation of landscapes and the dislocations of human and nonhuman peoples, as well as their relations with the land. Structural categories of Western thought and their political translations in regard to socio-environmental urgencies are placed in friction with indigenous and traditional knowledges, ethnographic and archaeological researches and ethical-aesthetic propositions associated with resurgent movements and the regeneration of forests. Dissent and equivocations involved in the conditions of naming territories and in the the untranslatability of its relational arrangements that exceed current scientific and political categories are investigated. These other trajectories and territories of existence shift universalist pretensions and ethnocentrism to give way to a plurality of ecologies, agencies, grammars and gestures that mutually produce the livability of the Earth