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Redefining socio-environmental struggles: contributions from indigenous women from the Ecuadorian Amazon

Descripción del proyecto

Una perspectiva femenina acerca del avance de las actividades de extracción de petróleo

Las actividades de extracción de petróleo en la Amazonia ecuatoriana ofrecen oportunidades de crecimiento y desarrollo a las comunidades locales en su totalidad y crean perspectivas de empleo para mujeres y hombres indígenas. No obstante, existen diferencias entre sexos. El proyecto AWAREFOREST, financiado con fondos europeos, estudiará la división sexual del trabajo y mostrará las luchas de las mujeres indígenas con respecto al avance de las actividades de extracción de petróleo. El objetivo es comprender si las construcciones de sexo (características, comportamientos y roles de género) contribuyen al desarrollo de percepciones y reacciones distintas por parte de las mujeres y los hombres indígenas, y, en ese caso, qué forma adopta dicha contribución. El proyecto identificará cómo dichas mujeres se están movilizando y cómo están redefiniendo significados sobre una amplia gama de temas que incluyen cuestiones de salud comunitaria y la defensa de sus territorios.

Objetivo

AWAREFOREST proposes to study the sexual division of work in Ecuadorian Amazon, uncovering histories of struggles of indigenous women towards the advance of oil extractive activities. The objective is to understand if, and in which way gender constructions (characteristics, behaviors and gender roles) contribute to develop different perceptions and reactions between indigenous women and men with regard to the social and environmental impacts of extractivism. Through the concrete example of the Movement of Amazon Women Defenders of the Forest, this project will identify how these women are currently mobilizing and redefining meanings about their bodies and territories, based on shared reflections of personal and collective, local and global experiences of struggles for autonomy and self-determination. In terms of training and career advancement, the objectives will be to expand the researcher’s participation in academic networks, to consolidate her research profile and integration in the profession. As an early career researcher, this action will be fundamental for her integration in the European and South American research community. Benefiting from the supervision of experienced academics and the support of research groups, LEIJUS (Brazil) and EXPERICE/LADYSS (France), this will improve the researcher’s capacity to produce academic publications, take part in international events and collaborations, opening new career possibilities. AWAREFOREST innovative aspect translates into studying alternative knowledges and epistemologies, formed through socio-environmental struggles in the Amazonian context, opening up space for diverse forms of organization and views of life. It is crucial to promote these knowledges at a time when the world is facing the effects of rapid climate change and many other ecological disasters derived from a patriarchal, colonialist and capitalist form of using nature, destroying particularly indigenous territories, knowledges and societies.

Coordinador

UNIVERSITE PARIS 8 VINCENNES SAINT-DENIS
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 256 214,40
Dirección
RUE DE LA LIBERTE 2
93526 Saint-Denis
Francia

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Región
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Seine-Saint-Denis
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Coste total
€ 256 214,40

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