COVID-19: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THINK ABOUT A NEW ETHICS OF SPATIAL COEXISTENCE

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 first cases were detected almost 18 months ago. Since then, over 170 million of people has been infected. The emerging Covid-19 pandemic still creates scenarios of uncertainty.  This paper brings some elements to think a new ethics of spatial coexistence that consider the future as territory of possibilities and an alternative to overcome our disconnection with nature. This is an invitation to imagine a set of creative ways of multi-species relations and to identify new senses of place and belongingness in the historical context of the Covid-19 pandemic. What kind of learning are we getting from all of this? What is our position regarding these challenges and opportunities? It remains to be seen whether the coronavirus can stimulate a paradigmatic shift in the appropriate direction in our understanding of world. Meanwhile, we are experiencing growing pressure to modify the anthropocentric narrative of "being-in-the-world", that has compromised our options to inhabit tomorrow in a significant way