Maria Paula Prates (Oxford). Other ways of extracting: reproductive (in)justices and Indigenous body-territories in Brazil
| Dates: | 12 March 2025 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Maria Paula Prates |
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Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series:
Wed 12 March 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can also be followed online here: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166
Abstract: In this paper, I address and make visible the interconnection between an increased medicalisation of Indigenous women’s life cycle and environmental devastation. I put into conversation what happens across scales: on the one hand, pesticide contamination of the soil, mining activities, deforestation, and water contamination; on the other, bodily compositions that are sometimes made stronger and sometimes weakened by biomedical colonial practices such as non-consensual episiotomies and hormonal contraception prescriptions. Based on a long-term ethnographic study carried out among the Guarani-Mbyá collectives, I draw attention to the co-existence and connections of habit-abilities between humans and other-than-humans, arguing that there is in place an extractivism of vitalities from both Earth and bodies.
Maria Paula Prates is a Brazilian-Uruguayan social anthropologist who is a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, and a Collaborating Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
Speaker
Maria Paula Prates
Role: Research Affiliate
Organisation: University of Oxford
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A214
Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
