Paths to feel-think-act (sentir-pensar-actuar) socio-ecology in academic and activist spaces: entanglements between body, mind and action in socio-ecological research

This research group invited students from any backgrounds and levels to reflect on our relationships with the territories and peoples we research with, through contextualised, embodied, and critical methodologies-ethics. We worked collectively in defining questions and activities to incite feelings-thoughts-actions that deepen relations with the socio-environment and climate in Berlin, fostering individual and communitarian belonging.

Some initial suggested questions were: how to ethically approach the knowledge and experiences of the subjects and territories we study? What are ways to minimize harm in contexts of research inflicted by inequalities and violences, such as racism, extractivism, coloniality and hetero-cis-normativity? We experimented with collaborative and communitarian feminist methods, like workshops, counter cartographies and intersectionality.

Co-led with colleagues Claudia Pinzón and Rocío Yon.