Cosmopolitics of care in the end of the world: gender, borders, and pluri-epistemic assemblages with public health

• Grant number: 21/06897-9
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants - Phase 2
• Start date: May 01, 2022
• End date: April 30, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: José Miguel Nieto Olivar
• Grantee: José Miguel Nieto Olivar
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São Paulo
• Associated researchers: Aline Ribeiro de Oliveira ; Aline Yuri Hasegawa ; Amanda de Mello Calabria ; Ana Paula da Silva ; Bárbara Hatzlhoffer Lourenço ; Bruna Louzada Bumachar ; Brune Mantese de Souza ; Bruno Ribeiro Marques ; Cristiane da Silva Cabral ; Cristina Thorstenberg Ribas ; Diego Madi Dias ; Dulce Meire Mendes Morais ; Fabio Magalhães Candotti ; FANNY BLANDON RAMIREZ ; FLÁVIA MELO DA CUNHA ; Francisco Antunes Caminati ; Guilherme Rodrigues Passamani ; Isabela Umbuzeiro Valent ; José Lindomar Coelho Albuquerque ; Karina Biondi ; Laura Rebecca Murray ; Leandro Luiz Giatti ; Lenín Alfonso Morales López ; Letícia Cao Ponso ; Marilia Cristina Prado Louvison ; Natália Boucas do Lago ; Natânia Pinheiro de Oliveira Lopes ; Oswaldo Santos Baquero ; Silvana de Souza Nascimento ; Taniele Cristina Rui ; Valeria Mendonça de Macedo
• Associated research grant: 13/26826-2 - Gender in the border and transborder territories at the Brazilian Amazon, AP.JP
• Associated research grant(s): 25/13995-8 - Future Scientists in Cosmopolitics of Care: anti-racism, art and countercoloniality for health., AP.R; 23/04977-0 - XIV SALSA Biennial Conference 2023, AR.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/13997-0 - An anticolonial black feminist approach to the Brazilian public health: ethics, epistemology and politics based on critical poethics of Jota Mombaça and Denise Ferreira da Silva., BP.IC; 25/14638-4 - Criminalized Women and Health in the Prison System: policies, practices and motherhoods in São Luís (MA) and Manaus (AM), BP.DR; 25/03158-1 - Knowledge production and inter-epistemic dialogues in the Anthropocene (II): development and systematization of a research experience with anthropology, public health and non-academic knowledge, BP.TT; + associated scholarships 24/18407-4 - Sexing the Amazon: struggles and cosmopolitical arrangements of sex workers through the Amazon multiple border., BP.DD; 24/14513-4 - "Infinite knowledge against the end of worlds: design and creation of a Transmedia Platform (online) for inter-epistemic dialogues and cosmopolitical care", BP.TT; 24/16459-7 - LGBT/poor-racialized youth, care and health exorbitance., BP.IC; 24/16538-4 - Indigenous women, violence and resistance strategies, BP.IC; 24/09479-1 - Support and development of the digital platform of the Infinite knowledge against the end of worlds project., BP.TT; 23/13782-9 - Composing worlds: abjection, assemblages of care e ancestries with bixas trans and travestis in São Paulo (SP) and Tabatinga (AM), BP.DR; 24/03201-1 - Knowledge production and inter-epistemic dialogues in the Anthropocene: design and assembly of a research experience between anthropology and public health., BP.TT; 24/03932-6 - Baskets of knowledge for care and health: Rionegrina women as daughters of Amaro and their inter-ethnic networks in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, BP.DD; 23/18162-9 - Racism, Gender and Incarceration: (re)existence and health care in the face of violence in the prison system, BP.MS; 23/03291-8 - "Infinite knowledge against the end of worlds: design and creation of a Transmedia Platform (online) for inter-epistemic dialogues and cosmopolitical care", BP.TT; 23/02593-0 - Health and violence: indigenous women and knowledge production in São Gabriel da Cachoeira., BP.MS; 22/13969-9 - Transfeminist epistemologies: ways of being and (re) knowing, BE.PQ; 23/00300-6 - The Traditional Agricultural System of the Rio Negro: Historical-Anthropological Approaches to Indigenous Ways of Understanding and Coping with Syndemic Catastrophes at the End-of-the-World, BP.DD; 23/00304-1 - Socio-environmental care in the face of catastrophe: decolonial ecologies in the practices and alliances of urban women farmers in the outskirts of São Paulo (East Zone), BP.MS; 23/00644-7 - Knowledge production and inter-epistemic dialogues in the Anthropocene: design and assembly of a research experience between anthropology and public health., BP.TT; 23/00276-8 - What to do with the devourers? Indigenous women in the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, youth, sexuality and colonial violence, BP.DD; 22/12541-5 - "Public health and food in the prison context: an intersectional analysis", BP.IC; 22/10345-4 - Knowledge production and inter-epistemic dialogues in the Anthropocene: design and assembly of a research experience between anthropology and public health., BP.TT - associated scholarships

Abstract

This proposal aims to develop a pluri-epistemic, multi-situated, and collaborative knowledge building process in the intersection between disciplines (anthropology, public health, and the arts) and knowledge that are exogenous to our modern disciplinary regime. We seek to understand, connect, and empower knowledge of cosmopolitics of care mobilized by public health alterities and exorbitances, with special attention given to gender and sexuality in intersectional and decolonial perspectives, as well as to understand potential impacts of said cosmopolitics and knowledge on the Collective/Public Health with regard to processes pertaining to the Brazilian End of the World. This proposal brings continuity to a long-lasting relationship with the Amazon, particularly with the state of Amazonas and its transborder complex, making way for connections with other (trans-)border territorialities and deterritorialization processes that are characteristic of the Anthropocene. The proposal can be divided into five portions. The first three are contained to situated networks, derived from the JP-1 grant and from my trajectory as a researcher (indigenous women, marginalized gay and trans youth in the Amazon, and sex workers); the fourth seeks to open this proposal to new connections and networks by devoting attention to ostensive deterritorialization processes linked to urban peripherization and environmental disasters; and the fifth portion is a response to the need for more tight-knit dialog with the Collective/Public Health field. To develop this proposal, we will carry out ethnographic studies with the given networks, hold Knowledge Meetings and Future-building Workshops, and produce a Transmedia Platform. Finally, we will create a line of research and a research center under the Department of Health, Life Cycles, and Society of the University of São Paulo's School of Public Health. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BEATRIZ OLIVEIRA SANTOS; MELISSA YASMIN ALVES TARRÃO; JOSÉ MIGUEL NIETO OLIVAR; BÁRBARA HATZLHOFFER LOURENÇO. Aleitamento materno exclusivo entre pessoas em situação de cárcere: abordagem interseccional e abolicionista para análise da produção científica no Brasil entre 2000 e 2022. Saúde e Sociedade, v. 33, n. 1, 2024-04-08. (21/06897-9, 22/12541-5)

DI GIULIO, GABRIELA; MORSELLO, CARLA; GIATTI, LEANDRO; EL KADRI, MICHELE ROCHA; JACAUNA, TIAGO; HACON, SANDRA. Health systems in the Amazon need to be reimagined for a more sustainable future. BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, v. 391, p. 3-pg., 2025-11-06. (21/06897-9)

GAMBHIR, AJAY; ALBERT, MICHAEL J.; DOE, SYLVANUS S. P.; DONGES, JONATHAN F.; FARAJALLA, NADIM; GIATTI, LEANDRO L.; GUNDIMEDA, HARIPRIYA; HENDEL-BLACKFORD, SARAH; HOMER-DIXON, THOMAS; HOYER, DANIEL; et al. A systemic risk assessment methodological framework for the global polycrisis. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, v. 16, n. 1, p. 14-pg., 2025-08-14. (21/06897-9)

AMARAL, MATEUS HENRIQUE; LAZARO, LIRA LUZ BENITES; DAY, ROSIE; GIATTI, LEANDRO LUIZ. Harvesting Underdevelopment: Exploring the Water-Food Nexus in Brazilian Municipalities. SUSTAINABILITY, v. 17, n. 3, p. 19-pg., 2025-02-01. (21/06897-9, 21/11380-5)

NOBREGA, RODOLFO L. B.; ALENCAR, PEDRO H. L.; BANIWA, BRAULINA; BUELL, MARY-CLAIRE; CHAFFE, PEDRO L. B.; PINTO CORREA, DARLISON MUNDURUKU; DO SANTOS CORREA, DOMINGOS MUNDURUKU; DOMINGUES, TOMAS FERREIRA; FLEISCHMANN, AYAN; FURGAL, CHRIS M.; et al. Co-developing pathways to protect nature, land, territory, and well-being in Amazonia. COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT, v. 4, n. 1, p. 5-pg., 2023-10-16. (21/06897-9)

JOSÉ MIGUEL NIETO OLIVAR. Um terreiro “muito jovem e muito gay”: tecnologias de persistência e crescimento no M/mundo. Vibrant, v. 20, 2023-06-30. (13/26826-2, 19/01714-3, 21/06897-9)