On November 28th (Friday), from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM, the seminar "(Im)mobilities of Fire: Exploring the relationships between human and non-human mobilities" will take place. The event will be led by Greta Mazzocchi, a doctoral candidate in Urban and Regional Studies in the inter-university program at the Politecnico di Torino, in co-supervision with the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology at USP. Her research is part of the ERC FIREPOL project, under the supervision of Prof. Lorenza Fontana (Firepol P.I., IT), Prof. Giovanni Bettini (Lancaster University, UK), and Prof. Guilherme Moura Fagundes (CHAMA-USP). Her investigation examines fire as a holistic force of transformation – ecological, political, cultural, and symbolic – informed by a decolonial and post-humanist feminist approach that broadens the understanding of multispecies relationships. She develops the theoretical framework of the (im)mobilities of fire to understand how it generates, conditions, or transforms forms of human and non-human (im)mobilities in the Amazon-Cerrado transition zone. On the one hand, she analyzes fire as a positive agent of renewal and regeneration; on the other, she investigates its appropriation by agribusiness in capitalist land use practices, producing conflicts, displacements, and processes of (de)territorialization.
CHAMA Seminar "(Im)mobilities of Fire: Exploring the Relationships between Human and Non-Human Mobilities and Fires in Brazil"
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