PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Ailton Krenak was born in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and is a leading environmental activist and campaigner for Indigenous rights.
“Ailton Krenak is one of the most original and important Brazilian contemporary thinkers in the fields of environmental crises, and Indigenous knowledge and activism. Throughout his life, he has advocated for a real and effective respect toward Indigenous people, their lives and territories, and against racist, genocidal, and ecocidal politics in general. In his highly distinctive work, Krenak’s objective is to change the views of readers and encourage them to understand the union between Indigenous thoughts, science, and a poetical view of life and the Earth.” Marília Librandi, University of São Paulo and Princeton University “Ailton Krenak has an extraordinary capacity to think outside the box. In Ancestral Future, he uses this capacity to guide us through a critique of most things we in the West take for granted: cities, schools, sanitation, equality, even our idea of future. It is really more a talk than a book: with the fluidity of oral speech, he moves from one nook of our existence to the other, unsettling them, removing the props and stakes that hold them together, and inviting us to a stimulating conversation that makes us see things from the point of view of florestania.” Lúcia Sá, University of Manchester
