1st Edition
Unwoven Ecologies On the Politics of Relational Design
By Fernanda Luzuriaga Torres
Copyright 2027
242 Pages
10 Color & 54 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book presents a sophisticated conceptual toolkit to address the spatial complexities of the coloniality of power and extractivism. Redefining urbanism as cosmic diplomacy, it proposes a relational framework to navigate conflicts through the interdependence of bodies and ecosystems. By dismantling the nature/culture dichotomy, it uses 'body-Earth' and 'cannibal thought' to show how Indigenous... Read more
Introduction: A Double Movement: Weft and Warp 1. Amazonian Discourse: Six Paradigms 2. Modernity and Coloniality in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Alignments and a Turning Point 3. The Body of the "Others" 4. Body-Earth and Cannibal Thought 5. Epilogue: Ch'ixi Ecologies
Biography
Fernanda Luzuriaga is an Ecuadorian architect and holds a PhD in Urbanism from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
