The “others” of the favelas: humans, animals and environments weaving tracks for a multispecies health project

Abstract

Communities and multispecies families: contributions to the One Health approach in peripheries" 1 is a collective authorship book, organized by Oswaldo Santos Baquero and Erica Peçanha, professors and researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP). Released in 2021 by the Amavisse Publishing House in São Paulo, shows the concurrence in its writing of multiple living beings, bodies, territories, most of which experience marginalization and resistance processes.We find ourselves in the presence of a work that blends a multiplicity of textual productions such as essays, autobiographical reflections, theoretical debates, research reports, among others. Such approach is positioned as inter(in)disciplinary when summoning different fields of knowledge to approach health, but also for opening a space of struggle against the epistemicidal erasure of the knowledge of the peripheries. As stated in the introduction: "this book opens a space from the intersection between the peripheries of knowledge, both urban and animal" 2 (p. 14).