Activist contributions

29 / May / 2026

Food Sovereignty and Agrarian Territorial Development in Brazil

Featuring Ana Terra and Josiane dos Santos. Fall 2024 Abstract: Ana Terra Reis is Brazil’s Secretary for Food Sovereignty, Cooperativism, and Supply within the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture. Josiane, also with the Ministry, coordinates policies related to productive chains and brings direct experience from agrarian reform settlements. Their joint talk explores how […]

By: Ana Terra and Josiane dos Santos

29 / May / 2026

Indigenous Movements of Southern Bahia, Brazil

Featuring Juliana Tupinambá. Fall 2024 Abstract: Juliana, a woman of the Tupinambá people from Olivença in Bahia, offers a powerful account of historical injustice and present-day resistance rooted in her community’s deep connection to territory. Speaking from lived experience, she interweaves personal testimony, political critique, and anthropological reflections to expose the long arc of violence […]

By: Juliana Tupinambá

29 / May / 2026

The Territorial Struggle for the Conservation of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil

Featuring Dione Torquato. Fall 2024 Abstract: In this powerful lecture, Dione Torquato—a rubber tapper from the National Forest of Tefé and Secretary-General of Brazil’s National Council of Extractive Populations (CNS)—presents a compelling case for why defending traditional territories in the Amazon is inseparable from achieving environmental justice and sustainable development. Drawing on his lived experience […]

By: Dione Torquato

29 / May / 2026

The Protection of Territorial Rights of Traditional Peoples and Communities in Brazil and the Role of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF)

Featuring Wilson Rocha. Fall 2024 Abstract: Wilson Rocha is a Federal Prosecutor with a Master’s degree in History from the Federal University of Goiás and a Master’s degree in Constitutional Law from the University of Seville in Spain. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Territórios Vivos Project, a Voluntary Geographic Information System […]

By: Wilson Rocha

29 / May / 2026

Contemporary Indigenous Cultural and Artistic Production in Brazil

Featuring Caio Dutra and Priscila Tapajowara. Fall 2024 Abstract: This lecture explores how cultural production and communication are mobilized by Indigenous and allied actors in Brazil to confront environmental injustice. Drawing from their experiences, Caio Dutra, a cultural producer in Brasília, Brazil’s capital, and Priscila Tapajowara, an Indigenous photographer and communicator from Santarém, in the […]

By: Caio Dutra and Priscila Tapajowara

29 / May / 2026

Quilombola Audiovisual Production in Brazil

Featuring Fabio Martins. Fall, 2024 Abstract: Fabio Martins, a filmmaker and musician from the Quilombo do Campinho da Independência in Paraty, Brazil, shares a deeply autobiographical and politically engaged narrative that interweaves personal memory, community history, and artistic practice. His story begins with three African women brought to Brazil through the transatlantic slave trade in […]

By: Fabio Martins

29 / May / 2026

The use of GIS tools for conservation in the Brazilian Amazon: The Yanomami people's experience

Featuring Estevão Senra. Spring 2025 Abstract: In this lecture, geographer Estevão Senra presents his experience working alongside Yanomami Indigenous organizations in the Brazilian Amazon. His account highlights how territorial monitoring—once driven by external actors and hindered by fragmented enforcement responses—has been transformed into a model of Indigenous-led collaborative monitoring rooted in autonomy and long-term cooperation. […]

By: Estevão Senra

29 / May / 2026

Quilombola Territorial Rights and Environmental Protection in Brazil

Featuring Mônica Borges. Spring 2025 Abstract: In this lecture, Mônica, a quilombola leader from the community of Itamatatiua in Alcântara, Maranhão, shares a deeply grounded reflection on the interwoven struggles for environmental justice, racial equity, and territorial rights in Brazil. Speaking from her dual role as a grassroots leader and public official, she challenges conventional […]

By: Mônica Borges

29 / May / 2026

Inspiración EZLN: (Re)construcción de la ontología?

El Pluriverso El concepto del Pluriverso fue popularizado, entre otros, por el antropólogo y activista colombiano Arturo Escobar, quien subraya que el pluriverso refleja la actitud del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) en Chiapas, en el sur-este de México. El movimiento Zapatista, en su mayoría indígena maya, se ha levantado en 1994 en contra […]

By: Felix Krawczyk

29 / May / 2026

Farming Outposts, Firing Zones, and Frontier Myths: Zionist Settler Colonialism in the Occupied West Bank

Abstract As a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, I’ve travelled through rural villages, olive groves, and grazing fields across the West Bank where Palestinians live under the violent realities of Israeli apartheid and occupation. Drawing from on-the-ground experiences of protective presence and direct action in Palestine, this essay details how militarised farming outposts, firing […]

By: The author of this piece prefers to remain anonymous

29 / May / 2026

A political ecology of San Cristobal Island: mapping local environmental knowledge and justice in Galapagos, Ecuador

Ways of living and knowing: being a foreign student in San Cristobal Island In the Anthropocene, islands are often seen as highly vulnerable places facing climate change impacts, especially sea level rise and natural disasters. However, a growing literature aims to transform our perception of islands through the lenses of ‘more-than-wet’ ontologies (Peters and Steinberg, […]

By: Brecken Butterfield , Lauren Clement, Laurette Compass, Djuna Day-Booth, Victoria Jeffreys, Carmen Marshall, Elliot Miller, Clara Smartt, Natalie Smith, Emilie Dupuits [1]

29 / May / 2026

Soñar futuros antiextractivistas: encuentro de mujeres jóvenes en la Reserva de la biosfera del Choco andino, Ecuador

El texto presentado a continuación es un ejercicio de escritura creativa, que relata el esfuerzo de crear un espacio para compartir y soñar los futuros que queremos como mujeres jóvenes desde nuestros cuerpos y territorios biodiversos. Hablamos del encuentro de mujeres jovenes que se llevó a cabo a mediados del 2019 en la reserva de la biosfera del choco andino en Ecuador. Las mujeres que participamos en este encuentro somos mujeres que luchamos por la defensa de la vida en los diferentes espacios que habitamos. La mayoría de nosotras formamos parte de la Red de Jóvenes del Chocó Andino (RJCA), y además trabajamos en temas relacionados a la ecología, los feminismos y la descolonialidad.

By: Diana Troya* y Anais Cordova Paez

29 / May / 2026

Retos y oportunidades de la pequeña minería de oro en la Amazonía colombiana – entrevista con Enrique Castro

Conocimos a Enrique Castro por nuestro trabajo en el proyecto EPICC (Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity Chains (EPICC): Comparing multi-level governance for Biodiversity Protection and Climate Action in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia). Enrique fue pequeño minero artesanal en Taraira (Vaupés) y se ha dedicado a luchar contra la gran minería en esa región y a colaborar con las comunidades en la organización, legalización y formalización de su pequeña minería tradicional. Creemos que las reflexiones de Enrique sobre esta lucha pueden ser de inspiración para los movimientos socio-ambientales.

By: Enrique Castro [1], Paula Andrea Sánchez García [2], Barbara Schröter [3]

29 / May / 2026

Cartografías de la esperanza: la colmena cimarrona de Vieques, Puerto Rico frente a las múltiples crisis

Este escrito busca divulgar algunos hallazgos iniciales de una investigación [1] más amplia, titulada Diálogos caribeño-latinoamericanos por la justicia climática: Entramados comunitarios y soberanías alternativas en Puerto Rico y Honduras que se está realizando junto a la Colmena Cimarrona en Vieques, Puerto Rico y la Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña (OFRANEH), en Honduras. La misma busca conocer y comprender las alternativas producidas por estos grupos frente a la crisis climática. Teniendo esto en cuenta, se desarrollaron una serie de talleres, visitas y entrevistas. En este artículo centramos la atención en dos de estas actividades: un mapeo territorial participativo y un taller de exploración de utopías en el contexto de Vieques.

By: Larissa González Nieves y Katherine Martínez Medina

29 / May / 2026

La utopía del retorno se hace realidad. Los Siekopái vieron reconocido su derecho al territorio ancestral en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana

El presente artículo expone el proceso de adjudicación de territorio ancestral a favor de la nacionalidad siekopái en la Amazonía ecuatoriana. A lo largo del texto se recogen las vicisitudes y su lucha por el territorio en los últimos ochenta años hasta llegar a la adjudicación actual. Se describe la vinculación espiritual y bio-social de los siekopái con el territorio ancestral Pë’këya, así como la fundamentación etnohistórica y documental que ha permitido el fallo favorable del 24 de noviembre de 2023 por la sala multicompetente de la corte provincial de justicia de Sucumbíos (Ecuador).

By: Julián García Labrador