The Real Story: Who owns the Amazon?
Are the Amazon fires an ‘international crisis’? Contributors Daniel Nepstad – Earth Innovation Institute Monica De Bolle – Johns Hopkins University Maria Fernanda Gebara – Anthropologist and researcher Also featuring Ricardo Salles – Brazil’s Environment Minister Johan Eliasch – CEO of Head Celia Xacriaba – Articulation of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples Nathalia Passarinho – BBC reporter […]
Affective Ecologies, Indigenous Ontologies and Post-Humanism
This presentation looks at affect theory and indigenous ontologies to illustrate their practical significance in understanding and framing human and other-than-human relations. It argues that affective political ecology can help to ensure that the post-humanism turn is equipped to engage critically with the necessary transformations that are required for transitioning into a post-human politics while […]
Indigenous Blood: Not a Single Drop More
This presentation is about the historic legacy of colonization for Indigenous People in the Amazon. “Not a Single Drop More” was a demonstration organised by different Indigenous People from the Amazon in 2019 in different countries around the world. The presentation was given as part of the event “Amazon Indigenous Emergency”, organized by University College […]
Beyond human-nature dichotomy: on the cosmopolitics of the Amazon
The Amazon is the largest contingent of tropical forests in the world, with bio and ethno-cultural diversity that fulfills vital functions in global climate regulation. This presentation elaborates on Stenger’s and Latour’s studies on the emerging movement towards post-natural politics that moves beyond the human-nature dichotomy to re-imagine political regimes outside capitalism and neoliberalism. It […]
Indigenous Spirituality and the Ecological Self
This presentation explores the role of indigenous spirituality in promoting a radical restructuring of modern Western societies in accordance with deep ecology beliefs. The starting point is the assumption of indigenous spirituality as a challenge to dominant neoliberal discourses in Western societies at the same time as it is constrained by the limits of those […]
Zero Waste Project Healers Forum
An interview with Mrs Gebara a social scientist on the Zero Waste Project 2017. Dedicated to cleaning up waste within the amazon forest beginning with the village of the Yawanawa people, a beautiful, tribe from the amazonian region of Brazil, Acre. Discussing the importance of the survival of the forest and the people of the […]
REDD+ Testimonials
Maria Fernanda Gebara, consultant for CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study on REDD+, talks about her experience and opinions of REDD+.
The Yawanawa People and the Zero Waste Project
Maria Fernanda Gebara a girl who tries to support the Yawanawá people to create the first zero waste community in the Amazon Forest!
REDD+ performance in the landscape
GLF 2013 – Discussion Forum: REDD+ performance in the landscape REDD+ addresses drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in the landscape — within and beyond the forestry sector. Countries go through different stages in designing and implementing REDD+. After a readiness and policy phase, countries are expected to move towards a stage in which results-based […]
