Lessons from frontline activists in East and Southern Africa, the Amazon, and the American South.
Join us for a panel series on "Predatory Extractivism: Brazil's largest mining catastrophes in a global context" on April 11 & 12, 2024. In this series, we will explore Brazil's major environmental and humanitarian crises, particularly the Samarco and Vale dam collapses in Minas Ceais, and their lasting effects on local communities; Learn about the […]
South American scholars and activists have proposed buen vivir and post-extractivism as utopian paradigms of alternative nature/society relationships rooted in indigenous knowledges. This talk reassesses and modifies these abstract concepts, proposing the idea of Buen sobrevivir, or “good survival”, as a radical, prefigurative politics grown out of communitarian feminist, post-extractivist praxis by Lenca women and their […]
