CO-CREATION OF LAW WITH INDIGENOUS AND QUILOMBOLA PEOPLES OF AMAZONIA

Tromsø / Hamilton / Rio de Janeiro/Manaus – 13 May 2026 The ECOCARE research project is proud to announce the publication of Quando O Direito Escuta. A Cocriação No Direito Com Povos Indígenas E Quilombolas Da Amazônia ("When Law Listens: Co-Creation in Law with Indigenous and Quilombola Peoples of Amazonia"), edited by Giulia Parola, Margherita Paola Poto, and Laura Shecaira, and published by Multifoco Editora in the Series Igarapé (ISBN: 978-65-5611-503-0, 175 pp.).

This volume, written in Portuguese, represents one of the defining concluding collaborations of ECOCARE. It brings together four substantive chapters and a conclusion authored by Amanda Teles, weaving together legal scholarship and the voices of Indigenous and Quilombola communities in Amazonia through a co-creation methodology that places community participation at the heart of legal inquiry.

The book is the result of a rich international collaboration. As a bilingual student from Brazil, Laura Shecaira contributed to this work during her McMaster University Practicum under the supervision of Giulia Parola.  The UFAM team provided essential expertise and field knowledge, making this publication a truly collective achievement.

The cover of the book features the trocano (a traditional percussion instrument of the Amazonas region) capttured in a photograph by Adelson Lima, whose generous mediation made this evocative image possible. The trocano, historically used for long-distance communication among Amazonian peoples, serves as a powerful symbol for a book whose central question is: what happens when law truly listens?

An English-language edition is currently in preparation.