Trata-se de um projeto interdisciplinar em torno de Justiça Ambiental, minorias étnicas e novas formas expressivas estéticas, sediada na Columbia University do qual faço parte enquanto pesquisadora ligada ao PPGSA e UFRJ. No ano 2020 teria tido um primeiro seminário internacional em torno do tema, chamado Rethinking Nature and Society, que foi adiado para março-abril deste ano e que em vez de presencial acontecerá por webinar. The Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group studies current struggles for justice that are articulated through the expressive cultures and aesthetic experiences of local communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. The resurgence and mobilisation of what have historically been called traditional, indigenous, and Afro-descendant expressive forms -- songs, rituals, images, objects, feasts, culinary arts, and ceremonies -- has been dramatic. Since the mid-1980s, we have also seen the rise of an indigenous film movement in different countries in Latin America. Technologies such as loudspeakers, microphones, hard drives, and other media are changing public and private space. New alliances between artists, scholars, and ritual specialists like shamans or babalaos (e.g. in Colombia, Cuba and Brazil), and between sound artists and activists (e.g. in Puerto Rico and Cuba) are informing these aesthetic expressions. Our working group contends that these forms of aesthetic experience – in narrative form, through visual images, through sounds, through unexpected alliances – give shape to new ways of imagining justice and of imagining the relation between humans and non-humans, including deities and other religious entities. We contend that the study and understanding of these new belief structures could have important impact on international policy of governments and non-governmental organisations. Equipe (nome e cargo/atuação/instituição dos participantes) Co-directors: Ana M. Ochoa Gautier (Professor, Department of Music/CSER, Columbia); Maria Victoria Murillo (Professor, Political Science, Columbia) Core faculty: Els Lagrou (Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Alexander Alberro (Professor, Art History, Columbia/Barnard), Ronald E. Gregg (Senior Lecturer, Film and Media Studies, Columbia School of the Arts) Graduate students: Maria Fantinato Geo de Siqueira (Ethnomusicology, Columbia), Andrés García Molina (Ethnomusicology, Columbia)