Enraizando em Gaia: estratégia (cosmopolítica) ecossocialista e uso tático do direito em busca de outros mundos

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Erna Fonseca Holzinger
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Brasil; DIREITO - FACULDADE DE DIREITO; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Cosmopolítica; Ecossocialismo; Uso tático do direito; Luta indígena; Gaia; Capitaloceno; Direito; Capitalismo; Comunismo e ecologia
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/77505

In light of the understanding that we live on the brink of ecological collapse, this dissertation proposes to reflect on what has brought us to this moment of catastrophes. We identify in the capitalist mode of production an expansive drive that, to sustain itself, depends on the destruction of nature. However, as we are not separate from this nature, its destruction implies our own – we find ourselves in a geological epoch that can be called the Capitalocene, a time marked by climate changes and species extinction. Since we are also nature and form the collective web of life we call Gaia, when we talk about extinction, we are also speaking of our own species. With this in mind, and having identified capitalism as the root cause of the catastrophe, our survival depends on its annihilation, making it impossible to characterize any notion of sustainable development. We must seek another world, and in this quest, we understand that we need to hegemonize a different form of social organization. Thus, we advocate for ecosocialism as a strategy for a revolutionary future, but, as we perceive Gaia reminding us of collectivity and the multiplicity of life forms, we point out that the strategy must also be cosmopolitical – as our Zapatista brothers and sisters have sung, the world we inaugurate must accommodate many other worlds. However, the defined strategy is useless if it is not built. Therefore, we dedicate ourselves to thinking about the tactic of straining reality, and thus, we identify in law a tool with tactical potential. On the frontier of capital, Indigenous peoples resist and make use of the weapons of the institutions of a world foreign to them to continue existing and to pressure the capitalist collapse by suffocating its expansion. Let us, then, learn from the centuries-long resistance of peoples who have seen their worlds crumble so that we, collectively, can guarantee for all of us a future that is not one of catastrophe.