An Indigenous Cosmopoetics of Justice: Law, Posthumanism and the Ecology of Cocoa

Studying of indigenous people and landless workers who use sustainable farming practices to restore damaged lands, the book analyses how humans and nature together create social and ecological systems that function as a kind of ＂viscous law＂, with flexible rules emerging from relationships with the land and its diverse lifeforms.

Renan Porto is a writer and postdoc researcher at the Institute of Literary Studies of the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Holding a PhD in law from the University of Westminster, London, his work spans critical legal theory, environmental humanities, indigenous studies, post-human anthropology, and post-colonial theories. Porto’s research endeavours to reimagine political and legal categories through indigenous perspectives, exploring their potential to forge new forms of existence in the face of climate change. He is the author of the essay book Políticas de Riobaldo (Cepe, 2021) and the poetry book O Cólera A Febre (Urutau, 2018).