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Brazil Field Experience: Sustainability, Networks and Worldviews

Viamao, Brazil

Dates and Deadlines

Term: 
Summer
Start Date
5/15/2023
End Date
6/1/2023
Deadline
4/15/2023
Note from Advisor: 
***Students must be pre-selected by Group Leaders in order to apply for this program***

Information

Area of Study: 
Geography, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology, Sustainability Studies
Program Type: 
Faculty-Led
Language of Instruction: 
English
GPA: 
2.0
Language Prerequisite: 
Advisor Name: 
Sara Gutierrez
Faculty Name: 
Andreas Hernandez (Sustainability Studies)
Advisor Email: 
flip@unm.edu
Faculty Email: 
andreashernandez@unm.edu

Overview

This 16-day Brazil travel course will deeply investigate meanings and practices of sustainability, through experiences in the “living laboratories” of social movements and communities. Sustainability, particularly in the Global South, is often peoples working creatively to protect or recuperate their local ecosystems, to guarantee livelihoods and ways of life over the long-term.



We will homestay in pairs for four days in a Landless Movement community, which is at the core of what may be the world’s most elaborated, democratically-run, agroecological food system. We will also engage with the Guarani Tribe, a quilombo (afro-Brazilian community) and traditional fisherfolk. Our home base will be a Buddhist-inspired ecovillage. Each of these diverse experiences draws from worldviews which challenge modern economic growth paradigms. They are working in networks to weave new social fabrics which are resilient and regenerative in the face social and ecological change.

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Academics

Brazil Field Experience: Sustainability, Networks, Worldviews

SUST 402 Spring Semester: 3 Credits

Class will meet in person second half of Spring Semester, and in Brazil May 15 - June 1.

All UNM students are eligible to participate