“Are we being the actors in mapping or being the subjects mapped?” : community-engaged research in Amazonian Indigenous geographies / Alexandra Lamina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamina, Alexandra, author.

Series:

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community-based research--Ecuador--Case studies.

Community-based research.

Indigenous peoples--Ecuador--Case studies.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

Between 2012 and 2013, I had one of the most powerful, inspiring, and unpredictable experiences that reshaped my professional career and reoriented my academic and advocacy goals. After years of working with Amazonian Kichwa Indigenous communities in Ecuador, where settler colonization is an ongoing process, I deconstructed the way I learned geography, planning, and mapping. The Kichwa people of San Jacinto del Pindo in Pastaza, Ecuador, showed me how my Western/European scientific production of space reinforced a history of colonialism and modernity in Indigenous lands. Walking their lands, listening to their stories, and learning from their wisdom were the ways for me to deconstruct colonial patriarchal rationality embedded in geography and planning. At the same time, this experience provided me with rich place-based expertise to comprehend what Kichwa planning and Amazonian Indigenous geography entail. This piece reflects on Indigenous planning and geography based on Indigenous decolonial thinking to challenge the rational schemes, patriarchal goals, and colonial roots that Western/European planning embraces using cartographic procedures. In this case study, I examine the methodological approach I coproduced in collaboration with San Jacinto's community members to make sense of their Amazonian Kichwa geographies and Kichwa planning strategies in their encounters with the colonial process of state planning and modern geography. This case study illustrates how scientific research reinforces colonialism and how we can creatively, reflexively, and collaboratively support the self-determination goals of the Indigenous peoples.

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ISBN:

1-5296-8339-4

9781529683394

OCLC:

1428170347