COORDINATION: Gustavo García López, Jonas Van Vossole and Flora Pereira da Silva

The Ecology and Society Workshop (ECOSOC) is a CES working group (formed in 2011) that brings together doctoral students and researchers, with the dual objective of deepening the analysis of connections between the social and the ecological and opening spaces for collective constructions in the face of the ecological crisis.

Our objectives are:

• Reflect on places, perspectives and relationships between people, institutions and non-humans in the context of the climate crisis, food security and nature-society relationship;
• Analyze power relations and socio-ecological transformations based on situated historical processes and respective colonial, post-colonial and capitalist contexts;
• Map and discuss socio-environmental inequalities, and the struggles for environmental/climate justice, both in the North and in the South, concretizing the intersections between them;
• Weaving collaborative networks of research, training and action between academia and civil society for collective constructions in the face of the ecological crisis.

In sum, we seek to imagine possibilities for justice and coexistence from theoretical and empirical places of tension, conflict, inequality, resistance and creativity with which we connect.