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)

• Grant number: 23/00304-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2023
• End date: February 28, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: José Miguel Nieto Olivar
• Grantee: Júlia Kaori Miai Tomimura
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 21/06897-9 - Cosmopolitics of care in the end of the world: gender, borders, and pluri-epistemic assemblages with public health, AP.JP2

Abstract

This is a qualitative study with an ethnographic approach on knowledge and multi-epistemological practices carried out by community groups located on the outskirts of the eastern zone of São Paulo that mobilize practices involving food production and environmental care to gain habitability in the city, being crossed by territoriality and intersectional markers such as race, migration, gender and economic position. São Paulo is the institutional headquarters of our research projects, which is currently and historically a grouping of highly concentrated power that establishes economic, social and political dynamics throughout Brazil. We also seek to understand how this gigantic urban center relates to the Anthropocene, based on the inseparable relationship between capitalism, coloniality, racism and environmental degradation, from the analytical lens of the Cosmopolitics of Care. Finally, the researcher will actively participate in the production of the Transmedia Platform that will be created for the project, in the Knowledge Meetings and the Futures Composition Workshops, and in training processes with students from the School of Public Health at the University of São Paulo, as foreseen in the FAPESP grant project "Cosmopolitics of care at the end of the world".This is a qualitative study with an ethnographic approach on knowledge and multi-epistemological practices carried out by community groups located on the outskirts of the eastern zone of São Paulo that mobilize practices involving food production and environmental care to gain habitability in the city, being crossed by territoriality and intersectional markers such as race, migration, gender and economic position. São Paulo is the institutional headquarters of our research projects, which is currently and historically a grouping of highly concentrated power that establishes economic, social and political dynamics throughout Brazil. We also seek to understand how this gigantic urban center relates to the Anthropocene, based on the inseparable relationship between capitalism, coloniality, racism and environmental degradation, from the analytical lens of the Cosmopolitics of Care. Finally, the researcher will actively participate in the production of the Transmedia Platform that will be created for the project, in the Knowledge Meetings and the Futures Composition Workshops, and in training processes with students from the School of Public Health at the University of São Paulo, as foreseen in the FAPESP grant project "Cosmopolitics of care at the end of the world".The researcher must actively participate in the production of a Transmedia Platform that will be created for the project, Knowledge Meetings (Encontros de Saberes) and Future-building Workshops (Oficinas de Composição de Futuros) and training processes with students from the School of Public Health at USP. The candidate will have the opportunity to develop his/her research skills, seek international partnerships and internships, collaborate with a heterogeneous and interdisciplinary team of researchers and collaborators, and make known important research results.