Amazongraphy: An Ecopolitics of Environmental Crises
This event is part of the colloquium series of Department II, "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life."
The colloquium series is in-person only.
Due to the limited number of seats, registration is required for MPIWG members. Participants from outside the institute are kindly asked to inquire about an available spot. For registration, please contact: Alfred Freeborn.
This paper introduces Amazongraphy as a critical lens to examine how the "Amazon" is governed not merely as a territory, but as a site of biopolitical and epistemic control. Drawing on Foucault’s governmentality, it analyzes how environmental policies and transnational frameworks embed neoliberal rationalities that depoliticize the forest and marginalize local knowledges. Amazongraphy exposes these power dynamics and calls for counter-conducts that challenge the technocratic governance of life in the Amazon region.