ANCESTRAL CATASTROPHE AND COSMOPOLITICS-TERRITORIAL KNOWLEDGE REGIMES

Abstract

Based on Latin American authors and research, as well as decolonial/anticolonial debates, we seek to offer some keys to understanding the implications between the epistemic regimes of what we call "Science of Plantations'' or "Science of Extractivism", and the emerging socio-environmental conflicts which act against those who oppose the translation of nature into a mere resource, pointing to the ways of knowledge and power that constitute and sustain the invasive ecology of colonialism and the zones of conflict produced by it in the era of Geontopower. We present some reflections on biodiversifying cosmopractices, their knowledge regime and relational ontologies and on how the climate emergency can be read through the articulation between knowledge regimes, (cosmo)practices of making worlds and governance of territories with regard to conflicts onto-epistemological issues and their infrastructures. Our research focuses, finally, on to what extent and in what ways different knowledge regimes – science and so-called “traditional knowledge” – can (inter)act, amidst scenarios of disputes and socio-technical conflicts, in facing the multiple crises of the present.