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| Author(s): |
Marina Ghirotto Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2023-05-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Renato Sztutman;
Ivette Rossana Vallejo Real;
Jean François Germain Tible
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| Advisor: | Renato Sztutman; Salvador Andres Schavelzon |
| Abstract | |
This research is a reflection with the Kichwa People of Sarayaku, Ecuadorian Amazon, about their ways of conceiving and practicing what we call \'politics\'. Among the various translations in the Kichwa/Runa Shimi language, we start from the one that points to politics as an act of storytelling and, more specifically, of conversation (kwintana), pursuing its effects. Understanding ethnographic work also as a kind of conversation, this thesis is organized around five substances that arouse most of our conversations: blood, oil, earth, manioc beer and flood. These substances have the power to say something about Runa theories and their modes of existence; their forms of resistance, especially anti-extractivist ones; and the ways in which Sarayaku continue to cultivate autonomy while defending their territory, which is called Living Forest (Kawsak Sacha). Following them, we observe that Runa political action - better understood in terms of cosmopolitics - escapes any stabilization: with, against and beyond the State, it articulates subjects, time-spaces, instances of power, feasts, plant existences, substances and relations that find no space in modern political practices, nor in the grand narratives of history that sustain them. Following, we dedicate special attention to conversations with Runa women and their ways of inhabiting \'politics\'. We are continually drawn into the worlds of swidden gardens (chakra), manioc beer (lumu aswa) and care (kuyrana), emphasizing their intertwining with the actions of women in indigenous organizations and collectives, whether mixed or women-only. We suggest that gender is an important idiom of conversations that institute worlds, sustain the multiplicity of the forest and resist its destruction. While their practices seek to cultivate better ways of existence on and with the Earth, they move towards and away from different feminisms, opening spaces for yet another story regarding women\'s political action. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/17805-2 - The cosmopolitics of the living forest: an approach to Sarayaku's proposal |
| Grantee: | Marina Ghirotto Santos |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |