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Many socioenvironmental struggles around the globe involve trying to protect the disappearance of other "worlds." Along with biological diversity, human languages, traditions, understandings, and the intimate relationships between peoples and their lands are under attack through various forms of colonization, capital expansion, or simply the globalization of lifeways. Scholars of international relations have recently come to appreciate that the world is made up of many worlds, and that great pressures threaten to reduce its diversity. This work has been essential for understanding the struggle of maintaining many worlds on a single Earth. Such scholarship has yet to penetrate fully studies of global environmental politics (GEP). This article extends such sensitivity and scholarly effort to GEP by dialoguing with Indigenous ways of knowing. It argues that Indigenous struggles are struggles for the survival of many worlds on one planet and that we could learn from this. The intention is not to generalize Indigenous knowledge but rather to make a call for engagement. Through Creative Listening and Speaking, a worldist methodology, the article focuses on the Yanomami's forest-world and presents a few perspectives to illustrate how relational ontologies, stories of nonhierarchical and dialogical divinities, make ways of knowing and being from which we could learn how to relate to the Earth as equals.

This study assesses the pedagogical value of film as case material, and whether that value is affected by the different national and institutional contexts of the students engaging that text. We test whether students in two different Theories of International Relations (IR) classrooms-one in Brazil and one in the United States-demonstrated a statistically significant, different level of increased knowledge, understanding, or ability to apply theoretical frameworks to real-world cases. Students in each class cover the same theoretical approaches using the same focused readings on theories of foreign policy decision making, and then they view the same film, Thirteen Days, to which they apply these theoretical frameworks. Using a quasi-experimental design, we use pre- and posttest surveys or 'quizzes' to directly measure students' knowledge about the case and the ability to apply IR theories to it. We also measure film's utility indirectly by asking questions about students' perceptions of their own understanding of the cases, and their perceptions of the utility of film as a tool in the IR classroom on those surveys. The film selected is a U.S. film about a U.S. case, making the comparative effect of the film on Brazilian and U.S.-based students particularly interesting. Adapted from the source document.

This article explores the idea of many nature(s) and its implication for the studies of global environmental politics. It discusses the inadequacy of the nature-society dichotomy and argues for epistemological parity, as well as for the recovery of indigenous knowledge systems. Looking at indigenous knowledge uncovers many ways to consider nature and contributes to recast global environmental studies in the Anthropocene.

Abstract This article explores the idea of many nature(s) and its implication for the studies of global environmental politics. It discusses the inadequacy of the nature-society dichotomy and argues for epistemological parity, as well as for the recovery of indigenous knowledge systems. Looking at indigenous knowledge uncovers many ways to consider nature and contributes to recast global environmental studies in the Anthropocene.

Muitas lutas socioambientais ao redor do mundo abraçam esforços em prol da proteção contra o desaparecimento de outros "mundos". Ao lado da diversidade biológica, encontram-se ameaçadas as línguas, as tradições, os conhecimentos humanos, assim como as relações íntimas entre povos e suas terras, por várias formas de colonização, expansão do capital, ou simplesmente a globalização de estilos de viver. Estudiosos das relações internacionais começaram a despertar para o entendimento de que o mundo é composto por muitos mundos, e que essa diversidade se encontra ameaçada por fortes pressões. Este esforço tem sido essencial para a compreensão da luta em prol da manutenção desses muitos mundos em um único Planeta Terra. No entanto, esses estudos ainda não penetraram por completo os estudos de Política Ambiental Global (PAG). Este artigo expande essa sensibilidade e esforço acadêmico à PAG, ao dialogar com formas indígenas de conhecer. Defende-se que as lutas indígenas são lutas pela sobrevivência de muitos mundos em um único planeta e que há o que se aprender disso. Não se busca generalizar o conhecimento indígena, mas sim lançar uma chamada ao engajamento. Por meio da Escuta e da Fala Criativas, uma metodologia da abordagem dos muitos mundos, este artigo põe em foco o mundo-floresta dos Yanomami e apresenta algumas perspectivas para ilustrar como ontologias relacionais e histórias de divindades dialógicas e não hierárquicas, constroem formas de conhecer e de ser a partir das quais podemos aprender a nos relacionar com o Planeta Terra em pé de igualdade.

A significação do meio ambiente saudável como um direito humano foi construída ao longo da segunda metade do século XX e contou, ao longo desse processo, com a participação ativa da Organização das Nações Unidas. Este artigo traça a evolução do entendimento da interdependência entre os direitos humanos e o meio ambiente, ressaltando a atuação das Nações Unidas tanto como lócus de debate, que ecoou demandas de vários stakeholders, quanto a colocando como mais um ator a influenciar o processo político de definição e solução de desafios contemporâneos. Para tanto, pretende-se, a partir de uma revisão da literatura, demonstrar a construção e posterior sobreposição das agendas de meio ambiente e direitos humanos e analisar as estratégias criadas pela instituição para promover essa agenda conjunta que, sobretudo, desde 1992 foi implementada em torno do conceito de desenvolvimento sustentável.

This exploratory research investigates how Indigenous Peoples (IPs) reshape International Relations (IR) and challenge established boundaries through an analysis of two Indigenous Climate Funds: the "Shandia Alliance for People, Nature and Climate" and the "Podáali Fund," both autonomously managed by indigenous communities. By examining their engagements at COP-26 and conducting interviews, this study demonstrates how IPs act as pivotal agents shaping IR through their distinct ontologies and epistemologies. The findings underscore these funds' role in broadening international perspectives, particularly in navigating tensions and fostering dialogues that redefine climate justice as an ongoing process of resistance. Ultimately, this paper contributes to re-rooting IR frameworks by centering indigenous perspectives and practices, thus exemplifying a "worlding" exercise that enriches our understanding of climate justice in motion.

South–South transnational advocacy networks (SSTANs) targeting emerging states, Southern companies, and their supporting institutions warrant nuanced distinctions from traditional transnational advocacy networks that are heavily reliant on Northern actors and targets, particularly in terms of the strategies and arguments they employ. This article analyzes the dynamics of SSTANs through the case of an environmental campaign against Brazilian hydropower projects proposed in the Peruvian Amazon. It demonstrates how Southern actors are mobilizing against new and emerging patterns of South–South cooperation, which, despite occurring on unfamiliar institutional terrain, reproduces familiar asymmetrical power relations and socioenvironmental burdens.