Against Terricide: Making Rights of Nature Pluriversally
Pluralizing the Anthropocene II
Pluralizing the Anthropocene II
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Schedule: 6 pm (GMT, Lisbon Time)
The session will be in English
Events
will take place online. All welcome but registration required
Arturo ESCOBAR (UNC-CH) e Marisol DE LA CADENA (UC Davis)
Moderator: Gonçalo Santos (CIAS / Sci-Tech Asia / University of
Coimbra)
Terricide, a label coined by Mapuche women, names the current epoch of the Earth: one in which some humans now have the capacity to destroy the world through their makings. While related to scientific and feminist namings of the same epoch, the terricide explicitly foregrounds the actions of worlds that do not abide by the nature and human ontological divide in their defense against their destruction. The actors in the stories from what we call the “anthropo-not-seen” are neither human or nature but both together; they pluralize both “human” and “nature” making them not only such. We propose pluriversal contact zones as analytics against terricide, one that enables political alliances across the same onto-epistemic divides that made the Anthropocene. ‘The rights of nature’ may be one such contact zone, an onto-epistemic site for alliances that may transform the current Anthropocenic-capitalocenic destruction of the planet—the terricide—into an opportunity to transition to what the Zapatistas call “a world of many worlds.”
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Gonçalo D. SANTOS is an anthropologist and a leading international
scholar in the field of China studies. His research explores new approaches to
questions of modernity, subjectivity, and social, technological, and ecological
transformation in contemporary China. He is an assistant professor of
socio-cultural anthropology in the Department of Life Sciences and a Researcher
and Group Coordinator in the Research Center for Anthropology and Health (CIAS) at the
University of Coimbra. Prior to joining the University of Coimbra in 2020, he
held positions at the London School of Economics, the Max Planck Institute for
Social Anthropology, and the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Chinese Village
Life Today (University of
Washington Press, 2021) and the co-editor of Transforming
Patriarchy (University of Washington Press, 2017). His research
has been published in leading scientific journals in the fields of
anthropology, science and technology studies, and Asian studies. He is a member
of the Research Group on
Culture and Society, Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues,
at Georgetown University, and is the founder and the director of Sci-Tech Asia, a transnational research
network that focuses on the relations between technoscience, politics, and
society in Asia and around the world. He is interested in comparative
approaches that draw on Chinese and Asian perspectives and histories to
challenge the hegemonic power of Euro-American epistemologies and narratives of
modernity.