Proposal of scientific dissemination of the project "Cosmopolitics of Care in the End of the World: Gender, Borders, and Pluri-epistemic Assemblages with Public Health"

• Grant number: 24/05376-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Journalism
• Start date: September 01, 2024
• End date: August 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Public Health
• Principal Investigator: José Miguel Nieto Olivar
• Grantee: Camila Montagner Fama
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

Abstract

The proposal aims to disseminate the activities from the project "Cosmopolitics of Care in the End of the World: Gender, Borders, and Pluri-epistemic Assemblages with Public Health". The initiative in question took place in 2022, gathers 39 researchers from a va-riety of Brazilian universities, and has in its core the articulations from the Collective Health, Art, and Anthropology Research Group based in the University of São Paulo's School of Public Health, coordinated by the professor José Miguel Nieto Olivar. Follow-ing a long-term relation with Amazon, more specifically the state of Amazonas and its transborder complex, the project relies on historical processes related to the end of the world in Brazil as marked by health alterities and exorbitances and gives attention to the pluri-epistemic assemblages and cosmopolitics of care mobilized through these pro-cesses to make contributions to initiatives for the decolonization and reconstruction of public health. This construction of pluri-epistemic, multi-situated, and collaborative knowledge in which the project is invested has emphasis on gender and sexuality issues approached from an intersectional, anti-racist, and decolonial perspective. Three en-tailments of the project are focused especially on this approach, giving course to the research of the researcher-coordinator with indigenous women, marginalized gay and trans youth in the Amazon, and sex workers. The remaining two of the five entailments of the research are openings to more recent connections based on research made in alliance with the Frente Estadual pelo Desencarceramento do Amazonas, the Departa-mento de Mulheres Indígenas do Rio Negro, the Associação de Moradores da Vila Tuyuka (São Gabriel da Cachoeira), and the Projeto Saúde Única em Periferias (USP).