Contribution short abstract

Hybrid Amazonian pluriverses reveal more-than-human agencies shaping climate futures. This research outlines methodological pathways, pluriversal backcasting, hybrid risk mapping and multispecies cartographies to operationalise more-than-human political ecology in practice.

Contribution long abstract

This contribution explores how hybrid pluriversal worlds in the Brazilian Amazon invite new methodological possibilities for a more-than-human political ecology. Rather than presuming a unified “nature” or a single ontological ground for environmental change, hybrid Amazonian contexts highlight how rivers, forest beings, climatic anomalies, agro-extractive dynamics, policies and politics, and spiritual ecologies co-produce socio-environmental realities. These assemblages challenge established boundaries between knowledge systems and expose the limits of methods centred solely on human perspectives.

Drawing on emerging reflections, the research sketches three methodological pathways to operationalise more-than-human political ecology to think about futures: (1) a hybrid risk chain approach that includes human and nonhuman agencies; (2) pluriversal backcasting that traces multiple, situated climate futures grounded in diverse ways of world-making; and (3) multispecies and spiritual cartographies that shape relational human and more-than-human experiences of environmental change. The contribution presents how these tools can bridge epistemological divides and support transboundary collaborations.

By placing ontological multiplicity and more-than-human presence at the forefront, the methods invite reflection on the reconfiguration of climate research and action in ways that honour Amazonian worlds and open new pathways for thinking about futures.