The Nordic Network of Global South Urbanisms (NEGSU) will collaborate with the Malmö-based film and cultural festival Latinamerika i fokus for a screening of the film Toroboro: The Name of Plants and post-film conversation with scholars. More information:
Toroboro: The Name of Plants
Documentary, 103 min — Ecuador/Brazil, 2024
Director: Manolo Sarmiento
Languages: Spanish, Wao Tededo | Subtitles: English
Thu 23 Oct, 17:00–19:20 – Salon 2, Panora, Friisgatan 19D, Malmö
Twenty-five years after a landmark ethnobotanical study in Waorani territory, the Waorani voices return to reflect on their history. In Toroboro: The Name of Plants, they recount the colonization led by missionaries and sound the alarm about new threats to their survival: the oil and logging industries.
The link to purchase tickets is here.
About NEGSU:
Launched in 2024, the Nordic Network of Global South Urbanisms (NEGSU) aims to bring together scholars working to rethink the location, theories, and practices of the field of urban studies. NEGSU seeks to promote cross-Nordic research and collaboration that engages with the global South through an approach that acknowledges historical difference, embodied knowledge, and the existence of a pluriverse of epistemologies. In doing so, the network highlights the importance of presenting the geographies of the global South in more nuanced and rich ways through, but not limited to, critical, postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist approaches.