Registration ends 07.4.2026 at 23:59 h

The seminar focus on bio-cultural habits in indigenous thought. That consist of reflections on life and death, upbringing, productive food cycles, in the indigenous world, bio-culture in daily life, for the integral management of common goods, towards socio-ecological restoration. Myths and legends. Ontological on cultural differences and cosmopolitics.
We are going to analyze social organizations practices connected with indigenous and local knowledge, on forms of community political organization, commons distribution systems, care policies, for self-determination as anti-extractivism political ecology. The party and community leisure time as an integration strategy. Seeds of future that sprout from the past, reflections on practices and discourses for territorial management, the material, the political and the spiritual integrated in self-determination forms.
We will focus on indigenous sciences, as a strong transdisciplinary bet, where bridges of dialogue are woven between non-Western and Western knowledge matrices, for example the science of the Sami people, Daagaba science of Ghana, indigenous science in the Andes, Yoruba science, among others, to problematize the colonial continuities in the production of knowledge and possible alternatives.

Provide a background of biocultural perspectives, culture and nature interactions, power relations and structural asymmetries in territories with bio-cultural diversity, combining conceptual framework from indigenous sciences and practical experiences.

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