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SUMMARY:Values\, de/coloniality and the more-than-human world in Chile - R
 ogelio Luque-Lora
DTSTART:20211112T130000Z
DTEND:20211112T140000Z
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CONTACT:Speaker to be confirmed
DESCRIPTION:Since October 2019\, Chile has experienced the highest levels 
 of social mobilisation and political reform in decades. The core demands m
 ade by these movements appear to be centred on human issues (inequality\, 
 education\, healthcare\, pensions) while paying little attention to other 
 animals\, plants and their environments. By drawing on forty-one interview
 s and seven months of participant observation\, this talk identifies sever
 al ways in which human collectives have sought to expand the scope of the 
 uprising and constituent process to include more-than-human entities and p
 rocesses. In many instances\, the more-than-human is relevant to the upris
 ing for human-centred reasons – because it has an impact on human intere
 sts and wellbeing. In others\, the interests of other-than-human beings ha
 ve been defended by diverse human collectives. The most visible of these l
 atter processes is the ongoing campaign\, often linked to Indigenous views
  and values\, to include the so-called rights of nature in the new Constit
 ution\; I question the conceptual coherence and intercultural justice of t
 his proposal\, and suggest an alternative based on the collective right of
  humans to defend the more-than-human. Throughout the presentation\, I con
 sider how differences in the values of the various social and political ac
 tors tend to follow the contours of their geographies\, identities and eth
 nicities. With this in mind\, I end by analysing the opportunities offered
  by the constituent process to decolonize Chilean institutions and turn Ch
 ile into a plurinational country.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, main building\, Department of Geography (max 15 pe
 ople)\, plus online on Teams
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