The Amazon on the path of global coloniality

the Araguaia-Tocantins Waterway, conflicts of projects, plurality of voices/narratives and educational perspectives

Abstract

The article analyzes the role of the Amazon in the global sustainability of the planet, putting forward the contributions of its peoples to this process as an inspiration and source of social and educational learning for other peoples of the world. More specifically, it reflects on the struggle against the implementation of the Araguaia-Tocantins Waterway, which threatens both the livelihoods of traditional peoples and peasants in the region and the environment and non-human life. The analysis focuses on the role that university-community partnerships play in this process, drawing on principles of participatory action research, understood as a powerful strategy to combat the climate crisis worldwide. The reflections contained in the article were produced as a result of literature-based, documentary and field research, which are part of a broader study being carried out by the UFPA team that is part of the Climate-U Project. The aim is to create Collectives of Territorial Governance (COGTER), through dialogical actions involving the university and social movements of traditional peoples and communities, to face the environmental impacts that destroy biomes, expel traditional peoples from their communities and cause climate change.