The healing time of nature. A conversation between Ailton Krenak and Karina Bidaseca

Abstract

Ailton Krenak (born in Mantena, September 29, 1953) is a Brazilian indigenous leader, environmentalist, philosopher, poet, and writer of the Krenak indigenous people. Ailton is also a professor Honoris Causa at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) and is considered one of the greatest leaders of the Brazilian indigenous movement, with international recognition. In September 2022, Ailton Krenak gave an interview to the feminist professor and researcher Karina Bidaseca in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Engaging with Ailton Krenak's thought is a way to understand the collective voices of the peoples who reclaim their lives and territories amidst ecocide in Latin America, just as it provides us with elements to reflect on self-organized and emancipatory collective construction in times of multi-causal crises.

Keywords:
ecocide; indigenous resistances; self-organization