Voix végétales : Diversité, résistances et histoires de la forêt

Description

Throughout the history of modern naturalist thought, plant life has been subordinated to other forms of life. Plants and, more broadly, "nature" have been equated with resources to be exploited, a view that has profound resonance in the current ecological catastrophe. The production of new narratives is urgent and requires the mobilisation of cultural, technical, symbolic and cognitive references other than those of the dominant model.

This is what this book invites us to do: throughout its chapters, rooted in the territories of Native American peoples and local communities in Brazil, we are confronted with a diversity of knowledge, inseparable from ways of life and worldviews engendered in a constant process of shared life between humans and plants.

With the participation of indigenous and non-indigenous researchers from various disciplines, activists and farmers engaged in agroecology, this book offers us a plurality of perspectives and commitments to renew our connection to the plant world, whose voices we urgently need to listen to.

It is aimed at both the general public interested in the diversity of the interconnections between societies and plants, and researchers and students.