This session proposes a decolonial shift in the debate on African heritage and climate emergency, focusing on the cosmologies and resistance practices of traditional communities. We question hegemonic models of adaptation, which empty their political potential for insurgency against environmental racism and the historical disorder that consolidates socio-spatial segregation.
Communities such as Aldeia Guat\u00f3, the Mebengokr\u00e9 nation, Candombl\u00e9 terreiros and quilombos, despite being exposed and vulnerable, demonstrate that resilience emerges from radically situated epistemologies, intrinsic to their memory and the way they build and inhabit. We seek approaches from a diversity of traditional sites and communities in Brazil and Latin America that reveal ways to map cultural values (cartographies, orality), assess risks (impacts and threats) and develop climate action plans (strategies, policies).
This session invites a radical transformation, regarding the role of (bio)cultural heritage in combating climate extremes (chaos) and the becoming of inhabiting the Cosmos (order). More than \u201cincluding\u201d traditional knowledge in current architectural or urban models, we aim for a complete reorganization of adaptation. What forms of spiritual climate governance emerge from the integration of ancestral knowledge and community practices? How can the cosmoperceptions of traditional peoples translate into more just, inclusive and resilient cities? How can climate action be reimagined based on the ethics of care, reciprocity and justice for permanence in the territory?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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