Project description DEENESFRITPL The role of motorcycles on indigenous peoples in Amazonia During the last century, the indigenous peoples of the South American Lowlands underwent significant changes as a result of mechanical colonisation through the introduction of steamboats, railways, trucks, chainsaws, firearms, and electric generators. Despite these major shifts in indigenous life, there has been limited anthropological and historical research on the subject. Also, the proliferation of motorcycles over the last few decades has had a profound impact on the interethnic landscape and reshaped indigenous reality. The EU-funded MOTOBOOM project will conduct a groundbreaking and interdisciplinary study on the effects of motorcycle dissemination among the indigenous populations of Bolivian Amazonia. The project’s goal is to inform public policy and improve road safety and accident prevention in marginalised communities. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective During the last century, the indigenous South American Lowlands have been colonized by steamboats, railways, trucks, chainsaws, fire-weapons and electric generators introduced by missionaries, extractive industries, armies, development projects, and NGOs. However, anthropological and historical research has largely neglected this mechanic colonisation of indigenous life by focusing on topics such as ideologies of personhood, kinship, cosmology, and relations with animals, religious missions and non-human spirits. Aiming at understanding social change, some studies have dealt with some of the new materialities that model everyday experience: t-shirts, outboard motors, solar panels, and cell phones. Nevertheless, not even a single study has analysed a conspicuous fact of the modernization of these marginal territories: the current tide of motorcycles that during the last few decades altered dramatically the interethnic landscape, and its social, economic and environmental repercussions which are significantly reshaping current indigenous reality. Therefore, the goal is to develop a ground breaking and interdisciplinary analysis of the effects of motorcycle dissemination among the indigenous peoples of Bolivian Amazonia, and to achieve practical impact regarding public policies on road safety and prevention of accidents in marginal contexts. By accomplishing the Work-Packages in my host institution Ca’ Foscari University (UNIVE), the project will therefore fill a significant gap in anthropological studies regarding indigenous modernity, while at the same time consolidating my position as a professor and researcher with updated capacities on visual and environmental anthropology, gender issues, science and technology studies, and digital humanities. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiespublic policiessocial sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societynongovernmental organizationssocial sciencessociologyanthropologyscience and technology studiesengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phonessocial sciencessociologyanthropologysocial anthropology Programme(s) HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme Topic(s) HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01 - MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 Call for proposal HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit Grant Coordinator UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA Net EU contribution € 188 590,08 Address Dorsoduro 3246 30123 Venezia Italy See on map Region Nord-Est Veneto Venezia Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window EU contribution No data Partners (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine (IHEAL) France Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rue saint-guillaume 28 75007 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding No data
