I'm thrilled to be in Rio de Janeiro this June, where I'll be gathering perspectives on the United Nations Conference on Sustainability and Development, or Rio+20, and the parallel People's Summit, which will bring together social movements and sectors of civil society engaged in environmental justice activism. The focus of my stay is to document arts and cultural programming around the events, with the goal of further considering how Brazilian artists are engaging with environmental issues and presenting new perspectives on some of the overarching concepts at play, including increasingly and urgently contested ideas of nature, conservation, development, sustainability, ecology, and environmental justice. This research is part of an ongoing book project on the representation of nature and landscape in contemporary Brazilian poetry and visual arts.
I'll be regularly posting news, findings, and images here. In the meantime, here are links for the multilingual websites for the two summits. They are well worth exploring.
For the official UN Summit:
http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.html
And for the (from my perspective, more interesting) People's Summit:
http://cupuladospovos.org.br/en/
http://rio20.net/en/
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