Indigenous Peoples and Epistemic-Territorial Disputes
El CLACSO Working Group on Indigenous Peoples and Epistemic-Territorial Disputes (PI-DET) We are the continuation of the work of the CLACSO Working Group on Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Projects.
We are more than 30 researchers (including postgraduate students) indigenous, mestizo, non-indigenous; from academic centers in various countries of Abya Yala / Latin America, Canada and European countries and we highlight that the GT also includes representatives of indigenous peoples' organizations such as the Kuna, Emberá, Miskito, Diaguita, Nahuat peoples, among others.
We conceive of the GT as a space for the co-production of knowledge between critical academia, committed to indigenous struggles for their rights, and indigenous peoples, who from their epistemes relate to and defend their territories of life against extractive projects, development projects, the climate crisis, dispossession of their cultural heritage by companies, States and other actors.
We document the expansion of mining, oil, gas, forestry, agribusiness, energy, and other sectors; we also document neocolonial dispossession mechanisms such as free trade agreements and interregional and transnational green capitalism initiatives in the territories of Indigenous peoples. We develop initiatives to contribute to the struggles of communities in defense of their lands, the defense of life itself, the decolonization of states, and the overcoming of the Civilizational Crisis in order to move toward a different society.
We are also concerned with and focused on the practices of academic or epistemic extractivism employed by a segment of academia that views Indigenous peoples as objects of knowledge rather than as political and epistemic subjects of knowledge. We document these practices, seeking to emphasize the documentation of alternative practices within academia—practices of epistemic justice, collaborative research, co-production of knowledge, and inter-epistemic dialogues of knowledge.
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Taira Edilma Stanley Icaza
Institute of National Studies
Panama university
Panama
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Ana Catarina Zema
ELA – Department of Latin American Studies
University of Brasilia
Brazil
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Gonzalo Eugenio Bustamante Rivera
Core of Social Sciences and Humanities
Universidad of the Border
Chile
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