periferias 5 | public, environmental, and democratic health
Editorial
food sovereignty
Black Self-determination Drawn From Our Roots
an interview with Eric Jackson – Black Yield Institute, Baltimore
by Edmund Ruge
| USA |
A Food System Transformation from the Favelas
Rio de Janeiro's Sustainable Favela Network and the Value of Community-Based Solutions Amid the Pandemic
The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN)
by Sophie-Anne Monplaisir
| Brazil |
the overcoming of plural conflicts in the context of the pandemic
The Favela Wants to Live
Information, mobilization, and solidarity to confront the impacts of the pandemic in the favelas and peripheries of Rio de Janeiro
by Gabrielle Araujo and Priscila Rodrigues | The Favelas Observatory
| Brazil |
The Ecology of War
The ideology of the Kurdish liberation movement contemplates ecologism as one of its fundamental pillars. Even so, owing to nine years of war, barriers remain to its implementation
by Frank Mei
| Syria |
Paths of Resistance and Intelligence in Periphery Networks
Collaborative platform Matchfunding Enfrente assists support-networks in managing the pandemic through 265 initiatives in favelas and peripheries
by Wagner Silva
| Brazil |
literature, poetry, and social distancing
Afrolit Sans Frontieres: Behind the Scenes, In Front of the Camera
Festival/Books/Writers in the time of Corona
by Zukiswa Wanner
| Angola | Brazil | Cameroon | Cote d'Ivoire | DR Congo | Egypt | Ethiopia | Eritrea | Ghana | Jamaica | Kenya | Liberia | Malawi | Martinique | Mozambique | Namibia | Nigeria | Sierra Leone | South Africa | Sudan | Uganda | US | UK | Zambia | Zimbabwe |
From the Lost City of Hurtlantis to the Streets of Helldorado (Or, Franco)
story by Rémy Ngamije
| Namibia |
Articles
Politics’ Continued Erosion of Sustainable Development for Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples
Sufyan Droubi | Raphael J Heffron
| Brazil |
Social Struggles and the Role of Conservation Units
Popular resistance in the neighborhood of Vargens de Sernambetiba, Rio de Janeiro
Brasiliano Vito Fico
| Brazil |
Narratives
Kariri History: An Arrow to Illuminate the Heart
A dive into the family memories of self-recognition as the Kariri, a nation with territory from Bahia to Piauí
Raquel Paris
| Brazil |
Are We, After All, as Poor as They Say?
Cyclone Idai and the Self-determination of the Mozambican people
Amade Casimiro Nacir
| Mozambique |
Photographic Essays
Sensitive Approaches for Social Distancing in the Favelas
Imagens do Povo | Observatório de Favelas
Bira Carvalho | Brenda Maria | Natalia Perdomo | Igor Freitas | Renato Errejota
| Brazil |
Water! Our Right to a Common Good
Imagens do Povo | Observatório de Favelas
Bira Carvalho | Bárbara Dias | Natália Perdomo | Fernando Jesus | Renato Errejota
| Brazil |
Peripheries Features
CIMI, The Missionary Council for Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous resistance amid political reconfigurations, discourse, demands, and ultraconservative attacks
By Roberto Antonio Liebgott
| Brazil |
Heinrich Böll Foundation
Meddling is the Only Way to Stay Relevant
by Marilene de Paula
| brazil | Germany |
Tiniguena — “This Land is Ours”
Constructing sustainability through the governance of spaces, natural resources, and cultures in a peripheral country
| Guinea Bissau |
IPAD Institute for Thought and Action in Defense of Democracy
IPAD interviews the Praxis collective, with work focused on mental health in Rio de Janeiro, and TETO, a collective dedicated to supporting the construction of affordable housing in Belo Horizonte
| Brasil |
Anticolonial Narratives from the Africas
An Interview with Vensam Iala of the Visto África Collective
| Brazil | Guinea-Bissau |
Born of the peripheries
Daniel de Souza: Between Loves and Quilombos in the Black Amazon
One of the main quilombola leaders in the State of Pará, Daniel salvages the saga of his ancestors that inhabited the region of Erepecuru and tells us how their lives helped to paint the Amazon Black
Raquel Paris
| Brazil |