Ayurveda, Geografia e alimentação: entre diálogos, retomadas e aberturas

Abstract

Starting from the current time of catastrophes in which we live, what is the place of food in this debate? Is it possible to rethink a world through food? A becoming that at least delays the collapse? Food is discussed and approached from various perspectives since ancient times, its history occurs parallel to the history of the world of living things - human and non-human, involving geographical, historical, political, economic, social, cultural, ancestral and religious aspects. . It is one of the most important and common actions for all beings, it is a geographical act, it can be political and revolutionary. The purpose of this work is to bring Ayurveda, Indian medicine, in dialogue with Geography, having food as a link, to reflect on the problem in today's world and propose solutions, possible utopias. More than proposing a reflection and solutions, it is to make a transgressive movement through ancient thought and reinvent social emancipation through the critique of the hegemony of biomedicine and modern scientific rationality, to bring alternatives to alternatives. With that, for the resumption, first, what is done is a dialogue, a reflective analysis, bringing the encounter of Ayurveda with Geography, whose focus of the discussion is the thought about life and the body - vitalism - and the understanding of Ayurveda as a geographical thought. In this transgressive movement, with the proposal of returning to the old thinking, that is, retrospective, the experiences of fieldwork are brought, letting Ayurveda be the guiding thread of the research through observation and “being affected”. In this return, ways of living, thinking and existing, food practices and India stand out in this work. And, based on the critical theory of the production of space, the reflection on how the problem of food produces and reproduces spaces, other geographies, other bodies is updated. And, finally, Ayurveda is proposed as a way out as a medical rationality that takes into account life, the Earth and food as a practice of healing and health for humanity. With this, the present analysis requires a dialogue with other sciences, since the problem posed has a transversal character, as it brings together several areas of knowledge. Therefore, with regard to the literature review and theoretical-conceptual composition, the importance of interdisciplinary support is used for the complexity that is under debate: the body, food, health, Ayurveda and Geography.