Between environmental coloniality and forest knowledge: Amazonian challenges towards COP-30
Keywords:
Decoloniality, Amazon, Traditional Knowledge, Environmental Coloniality, EpistemologyAbstract
It offers a decolonial analysis, situating the debate between environmental coloniality and the knowledge of the forest. It claims recognition of the Amazon as a political and epistemic subject, warning of the risks of a merely discursive visibility of the region.
(Received: September 2025 | Accepted: October 2025)
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