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Manifesto: Fertilizing mourning – Global South’s offering to a world in flames
- Source: Journal of Greek Media & Culture, Volume 8, Issue Greece and the South: Grammars of Comparison, Protest, and Futurity, edited by Maria Boletsi and Dimitris Papanikolaou, Oct 2022, p. 247 - 257
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- 12 Aug 2021
- 05 Jul 2022
- 01 Oct 2022
Abstract
This manifesto takes the coincidence of Peru’s and Greece’s bicentennials of independence, and their overlap with the COVID-19 pandemic, as a departure point, in order to propose a different understanding of mourning from the Global South. The article is an open invitation to reinforce mourning’s capacity to be a reproductive life force, responding to contemporary experiences of loss in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the accelerated processes of extinction, especially in resource extraction zones, like the Amazon. Taking inspiration from ancient Indigenous techniques for soil regeneration, fertilizing mourning is a call to merge traditional knowledge, collective practices and non-anthropocentric world-views that resist individualism and capitalism both in the Global South and in places that defend communal life in the north of the planet. This manifesto proposes that to transform prevalent colonial, modern structures, it is necessary to develop a different relationship with nature, by reconsidering the entanglements between life, death and regeneration.