Aílton Krenak

Title

Aílton Krenak

Birth Date

1953

Birthplace

Itabirinha, Minas Gerais, Brasil (Krenak)

Primary Sources

Krenak, A., & Milanez, F. (2023). The dimensions of life: Environment, subject, and the wild thought. In Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment (pp. 421-426). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429344428-43/dimensions-life-ailton-krenak-felipe-milanez

Krenak, A. ([2020], 2023). Life Is Not Useful.  Translated by Alex Brostoff, Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Second Edition, Polity Press,  John Wiley & Sons. 

Krenak, A. (2022). Thinking With Your Head on Earth. In Baccini, L., Saramago, V (Eds.) Literature Beyond the Human: Post Anthropocentric Brazil (pp. 235-239). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003243991-19/thinking-head-earth-ailton-krenak

Krenak, A. (2022). Ancestral Future. John Wiley & Sons.

Krenak, A. (2021). Reflection on indigenous health and current challenges in dialogue with the dissertation ‘It has to be our way’: participation and protagonism of the indigenous movement in the construction of the health policy in Brazil. Saúde e Sociedade, 29.

Krenak, A. (2020). Ideas to Postpone the End of the World. House of Anansi.

Krenak, A. (2018). The power of the collective subject. Periferias Magazine, 1(1).

Krenak, A., de Andrade, R. P., & da Cunha, M. C. (1986). Mining Companies on Indigenous Lands in Brazil. Cultural Survival Quarterly, 10(2).

Secondary Sources

Milanez, F. (2021). Counter-colonial epistemologies and the defense of life. Environmental Defenders: Deadly Struggles for Life and Territory

Milanez, F., Sá, L., Krenak, A., Cruz, F. S. M., Ramos, E. U., & Jesus, G. D. S. D. (2019). Existence and difference: racism against indigenous peoples. Revista Direito e Práxis, 10, 2161-2181.

Extra Resources

‘Meeting at the River with Selvagem: Ailton Krenak, Anna Dantes & Gaia Vince in conversation’. (2023, October 18). Flourishing Diversity. Youtube. Accessed November 20, 2023. https://youtu.be/6Vd5evBqeG0

Baratto, R & Simões, D. (2023, October 16). Ailton Krenak: “Instead of Operating in the Landscape, We Should Blend in With It”. Arch Daily. Accessed November 20, 2023. https://www.archdaily.com/1007953/ailton-krenak-instead-of-operating-in-the-landscape-we-should-blend-in-with-it

Cardoso, M. (2020). The sound of maracas (tribute to Ailton Krenak): Indigenous medical practices and public health. Saúde e Sociedade, 29, e200364. Accessed November 20, 2023. https://www.scielosp.org/article/sausoc/2020.v29n3/e200364/en/

Citation

“Aílton Krenak,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 27, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/662.

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