Decolonizing climate sociology: women, territorial struggles and tropical forests

Doctoral Programme: Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship

The work intends to understand the land and climate perceptions of territorial movements led by women that face the dominant extractivism model in dialogue with the organizations Coalition of Women Leaders for the Environment and Sustainable Development, CFLEDD, active in the Republic Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), and the Interstate Movement of Babaçu Coconut Breakers, MIQCB, active in Brazil. Departing from a mapping of environmental concepts and narratives, the goal is to set a theoretical climate framework that allows exploring how the notions articulated by these two groups can be consolidated as a catalytic point of emancipatory climate narratives. One that challenges the notion of property and subverts the legislative systems of nation-states, and at the same time, preserves their telluric political ontologies.