Call for Dossier "Traditional Knowledge and Management of Areas of Ecological Interest: case studies on disputes and conflicts in Latin America"

Traditional peoples and communities, whether in rural or urban areas, have their ways of life marked by specific ethics and rules of relationship with the land, the environment and other living beings, which involve devices for production, division and delimitation of places and spaces. These ways of life, as has been evidenced both through academic research and through the activism and forms of political action of these human collectives and researchers, have been strongly impacted over the last few decades by models of environmental management mostly directed by or associated with national states and their bureaucracies. The disagreements or mismatches between local and historical practices of ecosystem management as understood by human collectives and official rules and regulations, whether in protected areas or not, have generated a complex set of conflicts between these groups and the states, at the same time as producing new forms of activism and resistance.

This dossier aims to discuss, based on case studies in different national contexts in Latin America, how these devices produce places, disputes, local regulations and public policy possibilities. The aim is for the works gathered here to show how the conflicts, tacit or explicit, identified in these contexts have an impact on the environment, the landscape and the ways of life considered traditional. In addition, the research aims to discuss their effects on the dynamics of the use and management of territories, the ways in which they impact and reconfigure relations between traditional communities, natural resources and other human groups that may have parallel and competing claims and/or practices of spatialization, territorialization and the production of places. It is important to emphasize that the partial results of investigations that point to the complexity of these problems have been discussed intensively in academic forums by researchers from various fields of anthropology and the social sciences for some time. Both in terms of their direct impact on a large number of families or entire towns - in terms of local economies, public management and forms of political participation - and in terms of their broader dimensions, on larger scales, as they are global phenomena adjusted to contemporary structures of exploitation of natural resources, their modes of production and administration and distribution of profits by large social agents and even by states. The proponents of this dossier have participated in and coordinated activities at important academic events and forums, such as the Brazilian Anthropology Meetings (RBA) and the Mercosur Anthropology Meetings (RAM) and Congresses of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Congresses of the Latin American Anthropology Association (ALA) and Meetings of the National Association for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Social Sciences (ANPOCS). These activities, such as symposiums, round tables and working groups, among others, attest to the centrality and emergence of the theme, thus articulating, with considerable success, a network of national and foreign researchers, making it possible to bring together different research approaches. For these reasons, the proposal presented in this prestigious Revista Antropolítica is also justified.

 

Considering the evaluation criteria imposed on scientific journals, 50% of the articles may be selected from doctoral students; the other articles must be authored by at least one doctor. All articles submitted will be blindly assessed by external reviewers, in line with the journal's policy. In order to take account of the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches to the different empirical fields and issues to be debated, articles will preferably be accepted from the fields of Anthropology and Social Sciences, observing the parameters of exogeny in relation to UFF.

Organizers: José Colaço Dias Neto (UFF/Brazil), Carlos Santos Cardozo (CURE; Udelar/Uruguay), Carmen Silvia Andriolli (UFRRJ/Brazil), Luciana Loto (UNM/Argentina).

Deadline: November 5, 2024.

NOTE: As we have more than one open call, it is mandatory to indicate in the 'Comments to editors' field that the submission is for the Dossier "Traditional Knowledge and Management of Areas of Ecological Interest".

Contributions can be sent until November 5, 2024 via the journal's electronic system: https://periodicos.uff.br/antropolitica/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions