Projects
Philosophy in and for a Wounded Planet
My main research focus in the past years has been the elaboration of a “Philosophy in and for a wounded planet”. In contrast with major environmental theories, I challenge “nature” both as concept and a set of practices, proposing an environmental thought attuned to the ecologies of attention and care inhabited by singular beings. Through the concept of planetary wounds—the unmakings of the material-semiotic webs that sustain the existences of Earth’s inhabitants and environments—I show how human and nonhuman beings experience differently the current ecological perturbations. I approach these questions by developing the conceptual tools necessary to be attentive and receptive to other modes of inhabiting the Earth, in close dialogue with Indigenous philosophies and cosmologies, especially those from South America. This was the main topic of my dissertation.
Since 2016, this project has yielded publications, seminars, conference talks, and outreach activities. I am currently working on a book concluding the publishing arc for this investigative endeavor. This project has been supported by a large variety of large and small grants, mainly from the Brazilian Government.
Ontological Openings in Latin American Research and Practice
This project examines contact zones between conventional academic research and Afro‑Indigenous and Indigenous‑led world‑making practices, tracing how these encounters generate new transdisciplinary forms of environmental knowledge and practice.
Natures at the Border: More‑than‑Human Encounters at the Brazil–Uruguay–Argentina Borderlands
This project investigates how multispecies agencies negotiate political and ecological boundaries in the pampas biome, focusing on bovine ecologies, monocropping, and land‑use transformations that reconfigure human and nonhuman relations; this project engages with the scholars and the current literature in the sciences and social sciences analyzing the pampas in order to demonstrate the challenges of understanding and regenerating this biome.
The Anthropocene on the Peripheries of the Globe
This project offers a recent conceptual history of the Anthropocene from Global South perspectives, mapping how scientific communities and policy forums across regions articulate divergent understandings of planetary crisis, governance, and environmental futures and seeking to bridge North–South scholarly conversations through comparative workshops and networked publications.
The Desnaturadas book series
Together with Alyne Costa, I am editor of the “Desnaturadas” book series, with the Bazar do Tempo publishing house in Brazil. The series focuses on Environmental Humanities and Science Studies books written by women. Titles in the series are so far:
Despret, Vinciane. Habitar Como Pássaro, 2026.
Yusoff, Kathryn. Um Bilhão de Antropocenos Negros ou Nenhum, 2025.
De La Cadena, Marisol. Seres-Terra: Cosmopolíticas em Mundos Andinos, 2024. (I also partially translated the book from English).
Stengers, Isabelle. Uma Outra Ciência é Possível: Manifesto por uma Desaceleração das Ciências, 2023. (I also translated the book from French and English).
Despret, Vinciane. Autobiografia de um polvo: e outras narrativas de antecipação, 2022.
