Seminar: "Reflections on place-based collective action for sustainability and social justice in Amazonia" by Eduardo S. Brondizio

ICTA-UAB will host Eduardo S. Brondizio's seminar, organised in the framework of the ERC CONDJUST project. Organised by Dan Brockington, Jocelyne and Álvaro Fernandez-Llamazares, with the support of the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence.

 

Seminar: "Reflections on place-based collective action for sustainability and social justice in Amazonia"

Speaker: Eduardo S. Brondizio, Dept. of Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington

Date: Wednesday, September 25th 2024
Time: 3pm
Venue: Sala Montseny (room Z/22 & Z/023) and online https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85235524141?pwd=0oQseEafV7dfg68xpjagPd2Iwtdg9n.1

This presentation provides an overview of recent and ongoing collaborative research on the emergence and the experiences of place-based initiatives advancing social and environmental goals in the Brazilian Amazon. While the eyes of the world have followed the accelerated and destructive transformation of Amazonia, another remarkable, yet largely invisible, transformation has been taking place around the region. During recent decades, initiatives by rural and indigenous communities, organizations, and collaborative networks have emerged throughout the region. These initiatives focus on myriad issues: territorial rights and governance of land, water, and biodiversity, production system transitions, value-aggregation, associativism and cooperativism, gender and youth inclusion, restoration, food security, health, and beyond. Increasingly, they have become key players in local and regional environmental governance, public goods provisioning, employment opportunities, and the regional economy. These efforts are up against tremendous socioeconomic, financial, logistical, political, and climate change challenges, to which they often respond through innovative institutional arrangements, new alliances and partnerships, but in many cases struggle to endure. I will share reflections on the conceptualization of collaborative research, methodological challenges, and ongoing work.
 

Eduardo S. Brondizio is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Directs the Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes (CASEL), and Senior Fellow at the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University-Bloomington and member of the faculty of the Environment and Society program (NEPAM) at the University of Campinas, Brazil.

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