Visual Interpretations through the Territories of Political Ecology: Simi-larities and Differences between Eastern and Western Amazon

Abstract

The present paper seeks to outline a visual and anthropologicalreading of four recent artistic processes, which think different portions of theAmazon landscape through a debate within the political ecology. These artisticprocesses, two from Brazilian artists of Eastern Amazon, Luciana Magno andÉder Oliveira, two from Colombian artists of the Western Amazon, Julián Dupont and Henry Salazar, show other ways to discuss axes such as asymmetric developments, ecological concerns and visual responses to the deconstruction ofhegemonic economic reasons, aspects of great relevance for the anthropologicalstudies. With the methodological use of Clifford Geertz’s interpretivism, underPostcolonial and Decolonial perspectives of authors such as Arthuro Escobar,Gabriela Nouzeilles and Enrique Leff, among others, we define a debate in whichwe opt to take a position as allied with a change in our social path until a civili-zation of diversity, an ethic of frugality and a low entropy culture.