A Perspective from the South of the South (Patagonia, Argentina)

Briones, Claudia; Cañuqueo, Lorena; Kropff, Laura; Leuman, Miguel

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“…These reflections call attention to an often overlooked dilemma that is central to collaborative research, especially between foreign 'outsiders' and Indigenous 'insiders': the difficulty of determining what actually constitutes 'the Indigenous perspective' or 'Indigenous knowledge. ' Briones et al (2007) caution that researchers must be careful to avoid such pigeon-holing because it prevents critical insights into the historical structural processes in which we are all situated (see also Cañuqueo 2018).…”

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“…If the projects described so far have focused on negotiating the challenges of different kinds of knowledge, Briones et al (2007) direct us to consider the increasing number of other collaborative projects that strive to create new knowledge or theory. For collaborators, this requires a step further beyond merely recognizing and respecting difference, to what scholars call "co-theorization" or "co-labor" (de la Cadena 2015; Leyva and Speed 2008;Leyva 2011;Rappaport 2005).…”

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Reflections on Collaborative Ethnography and Decolonization in Latin America, Aotearoa, and Beyond

Kennemore

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2020

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As the ongoing legacies of colonialism are challenged, scholars and activists are increasingly carrying out collaborative research to respond to the asymmetrical privileges built into Western science by partnering with communities and explicitly orienting their research towards communities’ political aims. In this article, we trace the ways this shift intersects with other important trends in ethnographic research, especially attention to the politics of knowledge and decolonization. We discuss how collaborative research in Latin America is shaped by the context and political agendas of those involved to show what is produced. While in some circumstances collaboration can serve to level the colonial playing field by making Indigenous knowledge and practices visible, in other situations it can reinforce constructed dichotomies between Indigenous and Western knowledge and practices. As it increasingly the norm for government agencies, academic institutions, and non-governmental organizations to promote participatory methods to further their own agendas, we suggest that collaboration can be the site of governance as well as liberation. By bringing the dilemmas in our different research projects on Indigenous politics in Bolivia into dialogue with critical engagements from Indigenous scholars in Aotearoa and decolonial thinkers globally, we urge careful analysis of the multiple and changing standpoints of our collaborators in order not to re-construct essentialized notions of Indigeneity. Ultimately, we see the need to acknowledge the tight spaces of negotiation that we all find ourselves drawn into when we undertake collaborative endeavours.

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Reflections on Collaborative Ethnography and Decolonization in Latin America, Aotearoa, and Beyond

Kennemore

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2020

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“…In this chapter, we show how Indigenous leaders from the Qhara Qhara Nation pursue this strategic agenda by combining their traditional practices and norms with new legal tools. Our methodology draws inspiration from the work of Briones, Cañuqueo, Kropff and Leuman (2007) in forging collective ways of thinking and writing about the complexities of Indigenous peoples' relationships to the State and processes of development. Focusing on the paradoxes of the simultaneous expansion of neoliberalism and multiculturalism in Argentina, they make the case for a methodology that seeks to "cross-reference accumulated experiences and reflections," that also seeks to break free from constraints of superimposed subject positions (related to gender, class, age, etc.…”

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Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Self-Government in the Diverse Americas

González¹,

Funaki²,

Mayor³

et al. 2023

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The academic work that I am honored to present is steeped in history, paradigms, realities, experiences, denunciations, questions and struggles, from the point of view of an outstanding group of professional specialists or activists committed to the defense, promotion and enforcement of the human rights of Indigenous peoples.The compendium of writings collected in Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Self-Government in the Diverse Americas is one more milestone achieved in this process of recovery of rights.There are 22 authors, mostly women, and Indigenous women, who share the different experiences they have lived within the states of the region, in this rugged journey along the path towards the recovery of fundamental rights.The book is organized in three sections, based on chapters written by the different authors. The first part, entitled "Post-multicultural Constrictum," begins with a critical look at multiculturalism and Indigenous recognition policies. It addresses the advances, restrictions and setbacks that Indigenous autonomies have experienced in relation to the states. The second section, called "Possibilities: Recovering What Has Been Lost and Rebuilding," identifies and describes certain spaces of openness in the exercise of Indigenous autonomy and self-government. In this area, the importance of the agency of the Indigenous peoples themselves in defending their rights to political autonomy is highlighted.Finally, the third part, entitled "Autonomies as Emancipation: Own Paths," presents various instances in which Indigenous peoples, regardless of official recognition by the states, have advanced in the exercise of their autonomous rights, as an emancipatory process expressed in self-determination.Undoubtedly, this work constitutes an ample space for reflection that allows the reader to enter into the thinking and knowledge of the Abya Yala. A commendable effort that permeates not only the academy but the entire society and all democratic institutions and public policies aimed at making "the dignity of and for Indigenous peoples a custom."Our unique and diverse America has been the stage for a history of countless injustices, exclusions, dispossessions, inequalities, aggressions and even exterminations against Indigenous peoples, paradoxically the original Foreword x ones. From the conquest to our times of supposed democracy, the value of Indigenous culture, their cosmovision and ancestral knowledge has been undervalued; they have been dispossessed of their lands, territories and natural resources, for which today they maintain their struggle to recover their autonomy, self-government and self-determination. And they continue to suffer exclusion and marginalization in conditions of inequality and discrimination.International organizations in this quest for respect, promotion and protection of the human rights of Indigenous peoples have made significant progress, but we are still far from the legal and practical consolidation of their right to self-determination.An important normative movement has bee...

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The Challenges of Indigenous Research

Rappaport¹

2013

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies

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A Perspective from the South of the South (Patagonia, Argentina)

Cited by 6 publications

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Reflections on Collaborative Ethnography and Decolonization in Latin America, Aotearoa, and Beyond

Reflections on Collaborative Ethnography and Decolonization in Latin America, Aotearoa, and Beyond

Indigenous Territorial Autonomy and Self-Government in the Diverse Americas

The Challenges of Indigenous Research

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