The Global South Counter-Invasion: The Uprising of Ancestrality, Community, and the New Winds of Justice
The Global South Counter-Invasion: The Uprising of Ancestrality, Community, and the New Winds of Justice
Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: SJES017 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements (host committee) Language: English and Spanish
Our session advocates for the collective perspectives of different social movements to create a more democratic, fair, and equitable way to inhabit the Anthropocene. Together with several resistance movements from the Global South, we ask: how do social movements keep challenging established concepts to confront the daily injustices we face? How are hegemonical concepts and imaginaries of justice contested by social movements from the South? How have new meanings of justice, solidarity and political struggles been rethought in the Anthropocene? What new meanings have non-Western/non-European cosmologies been informing contemporary social movements’ struggles against injustice? The session is open to papers that are digging into knowledge production from social movements from the global South engaged in fighting injustice in the Anthropocene. Different concepts of justice, including transformative, climate, and reparative perspectives are reshaping contemporary political struggles. We welcome studies from scholars and activists on Indigenous, Black, queer and trans movements, landless and squatting movements, and others engaged in resistance to contemporary injustices. To conclude, we bring the words of Denilson Baniwa, an indigenous artist and activist from the Baniwa People. In Habitar o Antropoceno (Inhabiting the Anthropocene), Denilson invites us to reconsider the concept of territory. The Baniwa cosmovision understands territory not as a political division but as a unifying element that connects different peoples, both indigenous and non-indigenous. Therefore, we invite papers from diverse perspectives and paradigms on social movements, emphasizing the urgency of forming alliances and working together to collectively, and continuously, build new forms of justice and knowledge.
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