Thirteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

In this study, I discuss some mitigations to climate change carried out by extra-modern communities and the ethical and theoretical implications of anthropology in this scenario. As Latour writes, dealing with Antropocene’s consequences has demonstrated the need for the participation of extra-moderns (Viveiros de Castro, 2018) - peoples who never set out to be part of modernity but who were forced to adapt and finish the world they built - in research and decision-making. The insecurity of events creates the need to deal in some way with the unpredictable, and the agency of indigenous peoples is a way to understand in what ways one can deal with the world to come (Viveiros de Castro, 2018). In this communication, I demonstrate some examples of indigenous mitigations and anthropological research to discuss how this intersection is constructed in the discipline, seeking to weave possible paths in the face of new climatic events. Then, I discuss the place of anthropology and ethnology in studies on climate change, as well as if and how these researches are justified in a scenario of decoloniality, of questions on appropriation of knowledge and ethnographic authorship.