The environmental climate crisis has become a problem of the day and its social consequences have established new spaces for debate on intersectoral governmental policy responses to climate effects in the multiple territories of the so-called global south. This issue has encouraged a new reassortment of the role of national states in their relations with local, national and transnational agents. Thus, becoming the subject of intense debates and conferences on different scales. These territories encompass traditionally occupied lands and diverse worldviews and knowledge systems from which the scientific categories and multilateral climate change policies are questioned.

All of this has forced researchers to question, reformulate concepts and categories, and resort to interdisciplinary knowledge. Therefore, revealing the challenge of analyzing the climate crisis from a situated, contextual perspective, that as a result of a decolonial and transdisciplinary perspective, and of articulating different knowledge systems, is contributing to the production of knowledge under the principles of equity and cognitive justice., 

In this dossier, we have compiled articles that analyze these issues, question the hegemony of the dominant climate discourse, the political responses to climate change and/or those susceptible to these challenges. This special issue of Margens will consider important connections by bringing together the results of ethnographic research by members and collaborators of the Nisansa project in different regions of Latin America and southern Africa, where the effects of climate change are closely related to specific social, political and economic conditions.

Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication in another journal. Contributions will be received in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese until May 30, 2024, and authors must observe the journal's style rules available on the submissions page. (https://periodicos.ufpa.br/index.php/revistamargens/about/submissions#authorGuidelines).

For more information, please send an e-mail to revistamargens@ufpa.br.