Moving between worlds is not a totalizing phenomenon. We circulate with and within inequalities, clashes and violences. How do alliances highlight and find openings to amplify the articulation of resistances and ways of collaborating with dignity? This question is the starting point of this call.
Monocultures devour the pluriverse – the world where many worlds fit, as the Zapatista movement names it – and generate processes of alienation from the land that affect us all, but not in an equivalent way. Devastation generates contacts, forced migrations, and the need to create networks to articulate the struggles over land and water – understanding land and water as living for different worlds, peoples, cosmologies, ways of life and modes of production. We want to make this number a space for sharing knowledge about the possibilities and challenges of collaboration taking into account different positionalities within a land-destroying system that hierarchizes bodies, territories and epistemologies.
How do bodies and collectives move and connect by land and social networks, via clouds (by plane) and the cloud (by submarine cables)? How do songs, dances, and other expressive practices and forms of collectivity give meaning to connections and practices of care?
We are specially interested in methodological reflections between territories, struggles and thinking-feelings that consider ecology and the formation of alliances in an anti-racist and feminist way. We are also interested in narratives that exceed the separation between theoretical elaborations and the processes from which they are born.
Editorial organization:
Maria Fantinato G. Siqueira, doutora em Música, Universidade Columbia / pós-doutoranda no departamento de Antropologia Cultural, Universidade Duke.
Camila Nobrega R. Alves, doutoranda na Divisão de Gênero do departamento de Ciência Política da Universidade Livre de Berlim / Jornalista transmídia
Vered Engelhard, doutorande e professore bolsista (teaching fellow) no departamento de Estudos Culturais Latinoamericanos e Ibéricos na Universidade Columbia / artista independente
