A importância dos territórios afro-brasileiros para a saída da crise ambiental contemporânea.

Abstract

The environmental crisis experienced by our generation has roots in colonialism and racism, which, through the imposition of Western culture, radically separated society from nature. The worldview that guided the practices of destructive extractivism towards nature is the same one that subjugated many peoples around planet Earth. Based on capitalist greed, profit has become the maximum horizon to be pursued by Western humans, however, Afro-Brazilians produce territories that question the cosmovision and destructive practice, maintaining ecological relationships in these territories, based on their own cosmoperceptions. This doctoral thesis aims to elucidate Afro-Brazilian cosmoperceptions based on Bantu ancestry and diasporic territorial practices in Brazil that promote coexistence with nature, guaranteeing environmental conservation. Using the paradigm of Afrocentricity, the Bantu-African and Afro-Brazilian experiences in Bahia are placed at the center of the discussion, providing analyzes of territorial practices and data on environmental conservation existing in these territories. The thesis also demonstrates that conflicts and the lack of protection of these territories contribute to the advancement of nature destruction, making mechanisms for regularizing these territories urgent.