Privileging ancestral knowledge as a way to face the crisis and promote environmental preservation

Abstract

The present work aims to demonstrate that indigenous peoples have ancestral knowledge that can help face the environmental crisis we are currently facing. To do this, we first contextualize the climate changes that have been occurring worldwide in the last century and the consequences that these changes, also called extreme weather events, are causing to society. From this, we discuss the meanings of land and nature to indigenous peoples and the knowledge and practices they share with us, which are fundamental to environmental preservation. At the same time, we use consolidated authors from different areas and approaches, such as Donna Haraway, Judith Butler, Rita Segato, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, to theorize and develop our hypothesis of the importance of listening to indigenous peoples and allying ourselves with them in the primordial task of "postponing the end of the world".