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.

Program - The opening of the program on the morning of September 16 will be given by researcher Edila Moura, professor at PPGSA, who will present the seminar. Next, at the panel on “Logistics, capital and subjectivities” will be researcher Edna Castro, together with Sandro Mezzadra and Livia de Tommasi.

The afternoon will feature a panel discussion on “Structures, monocultures and surveillance” with the participation of researchers Leonardo Cruz (PPGSA) and Gilberto Marques from the Postgraduate Program in Economics (PPGE/UFPA).

On the 17th, Professor Rodrigo Peixoto (PPGSA) will mediate the panel “Conflicts and countercolonialities”, which will bring together students from the Graduate Program Silvana Sarmento (PPGED/UEPA and John Cleber Sarmento (PPGEG/UFPA), both from the Jambuaçu quilombo, with presentations on the threats posed by Hydro; Andrea Cardoso, from the PPGSA, on the consultation protocol of the Moju-Miri quilombo; and Karina Pimenta, also from the PPGSA, on the conflicts involving the Cargill port in Santarém.

Internationalization – Guamá Research Group - Urban Amazon Research Collective - is linked to the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology of the Federal University of Pará and is coordinated by Professor Carlos Freire, a PPGSA professor, who explains that the seminar “meets the priority objectives of the PPGSA related to internationalization goals”. The event is supported by the Pro-Rectory of Research from the Federal University of Pará.