Women* Health Justice
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Amazongraphy
Sensing and Imagining a Cartography of Resistance—a Performed Lecture followed by an audience discussion
27. February 2026
19.00-20.30
19.00-20.30
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For free
all ages welcome
in English
Amazongraphy explores the affective and sensory dimensions of processes concerning the ‘rights of nature’ in the Amazon basin, following the flow of the river from an eco-feminist and anti-authoritarian perspective. Although recent legal initiatives have sought to grant legal rights to natural entities like the pirarucu fish and the river itself, Dr. Maria Cecilia Oliveira argues that a strictly textual, rights-based framework cannot fully capture the significance and breadth of recent movements fighting for the protection of nature from the Andes to the Atlantic.
In this performed lecture, the audience is invited to experience a ‘sensory outlaw jurisprudence’ that prioritizes how law is invented and contested through everyday reality. Through an audiovisual methodology developed during the production of a documentary film, the performance moves beyond traditional legal analysis to explore the atmospheres, rhythms, and emotional registers through which local communities assert the river's personhood beyond the human.
Following the lecture, a moderated discussion will invite the audience to aks questions and engage with the ideas presented in the lecture.
This event aligns with Spore’s focus on ecosocial justice and cultural activation, highlighting the intersection of transdisciplinary research and grassroots ecological defense.
