Sobre os sujeitos da Crise Ecológica, ou como começar de novo

In her most recent column, researcher and coordinator of the Societies and Environmental Sustainability Research Group at the Centre for Functional Ecology – Science for People & the Planet, Terra Associate Laboratory at the University of Coimbra, and its branch at Universidade Aberta in Portugal, Fátima Alves invites us to fundamentally rethink the foundations of environmental and social sciences in the face of the ecological crisis.

With the sensitivity of someone who listens to the more-than-human world not as backdrop but as subject, she writes about absences that speak, about knowledge that escapes the grids of hegemonic science, and about the ethical imperative of building knowledge committed to the regeneration of life.

This piece stands as a manifesto for a science that is more humble, more relational, more attuned to silenced voices, both human and non-human. For an epistemological shift that urges us to listen to territories as webs of interdependence, zones of friction, and shared worlds.

Reading this text is accepting an invitation to imagine, with seriousness, new beginnings. To open space – even within our methods – for listening to the cycles of water, of stones, of forests, and of fish.

How do we communicate with what does not speak our language? How do we build knowledge without dominating, without colonising, without silencing?

A necessary, lucid, and deeply moving text.

We strongly recommend it to anyone wishing to rethink science, crisis, and life in truly transformative ways.

We invite you to read the full article at Diário as Beiras