1229 | 769 | GeoHumanities and the planetary turn | Andres Moreira-Muñoz & Pablo Mansilla-Quiñones

The planetary turn involves a new form of commitment to our immediate territories, but also the formation of an awareness that we inhabit a shared world in which it is necessary to act globally. Ironically, the Anthropocene, marked and defined by the impact of humans on the planet, has given rise to a new and stronger period of widespread environmental awareness, where the voices and epistemologies of territorial knowledge that have historically been despised and relegated to an abyssal zone, are being heard. With this objective, we promote the dialogue of knowledges between various fields that promote the search for a new ecological awareness. Based on these experiences, we investigates other forms of connections and assemblies to inhabit the ruins of this era. At the same time, within the framework of participatory action research in critical geography, the object of scientific production in contexts of cognitive capitalism is questioned, while proposing to generate knowledge for the transformation of spatial and environmental injustices, and the emancipation of social groups that have been geographically oppressed. This includes the integration of decolonial perspectives that today indicate that the crisis to which the (bad) capitalist development of the modern world has led us, including neoextractivism, is part of the coloniality of nature. Geography opens, then, to achieve transformative connections with other expressions of life. These types of encounters are beginning to proliferate today within the framework of Creative Geographies and GeoHumanities, including aspects as varied as spatial humanities, humanistic GIS, water narratives, soundscapes, geopoetics, among others.

Andres Moreira-Muñoz & Pablo Mansilla-Quiñones
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Instituto de Geografia

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ID Abstract: 769