Throughout the Pin Hole: Cocreating Images and Landscapes
RCSC Workshop, 7 december, 10.00-12.15pm in EOS 1.130
Thursday 7 December, 10.00-12.15 pm, in EOS 1.130
The workshop presents one of the methods in a PhD proposal for field work in northeast of Pará (Brazil). It is an attempt in using photography as a methodological living experiment for active and sensitive listening.
In that sense, photography will be a starter for conversation in regarding not only the phenomenon of light but memories. The goal of the workshop is not producing images per se but a methodological approach for understanding that nevertheless, becoming the basis of modern society, the dualism between nature and culture is a political fiction and choice.
Space is limited: Register for the workshop here !
Brazilian researcher Nathália Tavares de Souza Almeida is a third year PhD student at the Centre for Advanced Amazonian Studies (NAEA), Federal University of the State of Pará. Nathália holds a bachelor’s degree in law and Master’s in Public Policies and Human Rights where her main research interest was ABS (Access and benefit sharing) contracts. She’s trying to adopt an inter-disciplinary approach while engaging in her PhD thesis work titled, Plantantionocene and Land Struggles: Ways to Die and Permanence Strategies between Genocide and Epistemicide in the Amazon. Investigating the epistemological implications due to the priorities given during the colonization and recolonization of time and space and, above all, its control over knowledge. Considering the Plantationocene and plantation landscapes as an intensifier for this ontological crisis, as being a killer of diversity.
Her research discusses the maintenance of the colonial productive structure in Latin America’s Amazon and how it’s redone and refreshed in new ways of colonization. She also studies land reform, land grabbing, peasant communities, the political struggle for land and agroecology.