Banzeiro Okoto : the Amazon as the centre of the world
Brum, Eliane2023
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In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from Sao Paulo to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River that has been devastated by the construction of one of the largest dams in the world. In community with the human and more-than-human world of the Amazon, Brum seeks to reforest herself while building relationships with forest peoples who carry both the scars and the resistance of the forest in their bodies. Weaving together the lived stories of the region and its history of violent corruption and destruction, Banzeiro Okoto a call for radical change, for the creation of a new kind of human being capable of facing the potential extinction of ourspecies. In it, Brum reveals the direct links between structural inequities rooted in gender, race, class, and even species, and the suffering that capitalism and climate breakdown wreak on those who are least responsible for them.
Main title:
Banzeiro Okoto : the Amazon as the centre of the world / Elaine Brum ; translated by Diane Whitty.
Author:
Brum, Eliane, authorGrosklaus Whitty, Diane R., translator
Imprint:
London : The Indigo Press, 2023.
Collation:
420 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Portuguese.
ISBN:
9781911648611 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
330.98115
Language:
EnglishPortuguese
BRN:
2340791
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