Programme

10h – 11h15: "Experiences in working with social movements in the field of inclusive epidemiology and biocultural heritage in Mexico: the framing of decoloniality and Epistemologies of the South"

Speaker: Paul Hersch Martínez, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico

Abstract: We share a work experience from research-action and health promotion in Mexico, articulated with some referential elements of the decolonial perspective and Epistemologies of the South. In this context, coloniality, through imposed and naturalized hierarchization of human beings, knowledges, places and subjectivities, constitutes a structural pathogenic device that generates avoidable morbimortality, and therefore in the programming of absence in processes of differential inattention at different levels and scales. If coloniality programmes the absence and the naturalized damnification, what social processes and application methods do presence programming demand, in the field of health and the environment?

11h15 - 11h30: Break

11h30 – 12h45: "Dead Water: environmental risk and social imaginary of sustainability around a socio-environmental conflict for water in the Cuautla River, Morelos, Mexico" 

Speaker: Lilián González Chévez, Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, Mexico

Abstract: "Dead water" is a construct that, from the environmental rationality of peasants in the struggle against the implementation of a thermoelectric plant, expresses the potential of environmental destruction that industrial expansion has, by disrupting the principles of sustainability of life. The implicit premises of the peasants' assessment of this environmental risk have no place in the prevailing scientific-modern rationality that is at the basis of the extractive megaprojects currently in vogue. However, this peasant rationality supports the greatest obstacle to starting a megaproject that, although not yet underway, has already a high social, economic and political cost. Given the programmed absence of knowledges and social actors, is it possible to articulate a hypothetical dialogue between actors in conflict?