Comments by Teresa Cunha (CES)


Overview

The seminar will present a proposal for an emancipatory promotion of health. It reflects a trajectory spanning over 20 years of research in the National School of Health Sergio Arouca (ENSP/Fiocruz) articulated with struggles and social movements for health, dignity and territorial rights of urban populations (namely peripheries and favelas), as well as those of the countryside, forests and waters (peasants, indigenous and quilombolas). PES seeks to articulate four dimensions of justice (social, sanitary, environmental, cognitive and historical) in light of the dialogue between three fields of knowledge; collective health, political ecology and postcolonial approaches, especially the epistemologies of the South proposed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos. A strategic aspect for the realization of interdisciplinary and intercultural encounters around health implies incorporating multiple languages ​​and narratives beyond the scientific, be them artistic, poetic-musical or popular. They contribute to building bridges between science and ethics, reason and affection, health and dignity through more sensible and wise practices within academia.

Bio note

Marcelo Firpo Porto is the coordinator of the Ecology, Epistemology and Emancipatory Health Promotion Centre (Neepes/ENSP/Fiocruz) and an associate researcher at CES/University of Coimbra.