How can we learn from animals to recover from catastrophic wildfires? In this presentation, Verónica Policarpo will discuss this question based on the interdisciplinary project "ERC ABIDE (ID 101043231): Animal ABidings: recovering from disasters in more-than-human communities," which studies post-fire recovery in three countries: Brazil, Portugal, and Australia. After a brief presentation of the project's objectives and methodologies, as well as their epistemological implications, the researcher will share some aspects of her field experience in the Serra da Estrela region. She will discuss possible paths to (re)imagine how animals can inspire us to build multispecies communities whose ecological diversity would contribute to greater post-fire regeneration and resilience.
Verónica Policarpo is an anthropologist, senior researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa), and coordinator of the Human-Animal Studies Hub. Currently, she leads the interdisciplinary project "ERC ABIDE (ID 101043231): Animal ABidings: recovering from DisastErs in more-than-human communities," which investigates how multispecies communities, including non-human animals, recover from disasters such as wildfires, proposing an interdisciplinary approach and more-than-human governance to address climate crises.
The event, promoted by the Collective of Anthropology, Environment, and Biotechnodiversity (CHAMA), will be held at the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA) on August 29 (Friday), from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM.