Exploring the Relationships between the Mobilities of Humans and Non-humans.

On the 28th of November, our Phd candidate, Greta Mazzocchi, will deliver a seminar at Laboratório de Imagem e Som em Antropologia da Universidade de São Paulo (LISA-USP).

She is a PhD candidate in Urban and Regional Studies in the inter-university program of the Politecnico di Torino, in cotutelle with the Graduate Program in Anthropology at USP. Her research is part of the ERC FIREPOL project, under the supervision of Prof. Lorenza Fontana (Firepol P.I., IT), Prof. Giovanni Bettini (Lancaster University, UK), and Prof. Guilherme Moura Fagundes (CHAMA-USP).

Her investigation examines fire as a holistic force of transformation—ecological, political, cultural, and symbolic—drawing on a decolonial and post-humanist feminist approach that broadens the understanding of multiple worlds.

She develops the conceptual framework of fire and landscape (im)mobilities to understand how it generates, conditions, or transforms human and non-human forms of (im)mobility in the Amazon–Cerrado transition zone.

On one hand, she analyzes fire as a positive agent of renewal and regeneration; on the other, she investigates its appropriation by agribusiness in capitalist land-use practices, producing conflicts, displacements, and processes of (de)territorialization.