Subversive Politics: Climate Change, Collective Ethics, and Justice in Northern Peru

Harvard Divinity School

Poor mestizos in northern Peru offer a new way to theorize humanism and sentient landscapes that interact with humans in terms of environmental justice, collective ethics, and health. By defining “community” and “well-being” as humans-in-relationship-to-places-as-persons, poor mestizos resignify “nature” itself as an anchor for social justice. Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York-Buffalo, speaks on her research in northern Peru. She has worked with Mapuche shamans in Southern Chile and shamans on the north coast of Peru. Full transcript: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2019/02/20/video-subversive-politics-northern-peru Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.