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Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 288 g
Reihe: Critical South
Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 288 g
Reihe: Critical South
ISBN: 978-1-5095-7019-5
Verlag: Polity Press
This book by the late Brazilian activist and quilombo leader Antônio Bispo dos Santos offers an original perspective on ways of living and relating to others and to the land that is rooted in a quilombo cosmovision – the polytheistic, counter-colonial, confluential worldview articulated by Bispo through quilombola thinking in Brazil. It presents a fresh critique of capitalism and colonialism that emerges from a quilombola perspective.
Nêgo Bispo lays out a set of terms and concepts developed over his lifetime, based on ancestral quilombola knowledge. His key concept is "counter-colonialism" – a practice of confronting and undoing colonial domination through quilombola modes of life, struggle, and thought. He argues that the hyper-individualistic, capitalistic, colonial approach to cultivating the earth sees the land as subservient to its desires. A quilombo cosmovision, by contrast, understands that our desires are always in dialogue with the wants and needs of the earth – we must live in harmony with the earth, animals, and people, and if we take from the earth, we must also give to the earth.
This remarkable book introduces a new perspective on the debates about the destructive consequences of capitalism and colonialism and will be of interest to anyone who wants to think about how we live in relation to each other and to the earth.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction – Renata Marquez
Sowing Words
Cities and Cosmophobia
We are Sharers
Architecture and Counter-Colonialism
Colonialism of Submission
Free Raising, Fenced Planting
About the Author
About the Artist
Notes
