The environmental crises are evidence of the multiple crises of the Anthropocene. A term that exposes the entangled relationships that have caused not only global warming, species extinction, and ocean acidification, but also the deepening of social inequalities. In this context, there is an urgent need to find alternatives that link efforts and initiatives to address this crisis, to sustain local livelihoods, biodiversity, and fair exchange relations in a world that needs to repair multiple cares.
My current research project focuses on the responses of different communities and local organisations from the Global South to the challenging conditions created by the multiple crisis. I understand their ways of life and collective struggles from an affective perspective as key efforts to face the crisis and to create multiple worldings and arrangements for our collective life.
This research aims to contribute to a territorial approach based on a notion of nature as a sentient space for living, facing common challenges and taking seriously the place of affects in agricultural production, forest conservation, and local well-being, by providing insights for an idea of 'territorial care' that recognises human and non-human well-being as main objectives. The aim is to explore farmers' perspectives on managing their relationship with nature in the context of Colombian and Mexican coffee production, based on the affective ties that are locally situated and nurtured.