PPGSA - Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Program

PPGSA promotes Seminar “Logistics of Devastation: mining, agribusiness and other colonialities" on September 16th and 17th

The Guamá Group - Urban Amazon Research Collective linked to the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology (PPGSA/UFPA) will hold the Seminar “Logistics of Devastation: mining, agribusiness and other colonialities” on September 16 and 17. The event will take place in the Basic Sector Auditorium I, at 9:30 am and will be open to the public.

Guests - The seminar will be attended by international and national researchers, such as researcher Sandro Mezzadra, professor of Political Theory at the University of Bologna, Italy, who is in Brazil this September, participating in an extensive program of lectures and seminars at higher education institutions that include UFRJ, UFF, UFMG, USP. The visit to Belém is especially to participate in the seminar at UFPA, since he represents one of the main contemporary references in the debate on borders and migration, and on capitalist extractivism and logistical structures, with several published works. The meeting at the seminar is to develop dialogues with their research from the Amazon and generate perspectives for cooperation for future research.

Another international participant is researcher Hernán Cuevas, PhD in Political Science and professor at Universidad Astral in Chile, where he researches logistical transformations in port cities. The national guest is professor Lívia de Tommasi, from the Postgraduate Program in Human and Social Sciences (PHCS/UFABC), who studies peripheries, urban cultures and poverty management.