Indigenous People and Climate Change – conflicting epistemologies in Latin America
Short description
The project investigates different understandings among indigenous people in Latin America of those atmospheric phenomena that in English are referred to as “weather” and how they relate to national policies of climate change mitigation and/or alliances and cooperation with NGOs.
Background and research aims
The project investigates different understandings among indigenous people in Latin America of those atmospheric phenomena that in English are referred to as “weather” and how they relate to national policies of climate change mitigation and/or alliances and cooperation with NGOs.
The project consists of three subjects with different regional focus: one subproject, carried out by Stefan Permanto, is located to the Q’eqchi’ Maya people on the Guatemalan Atlantic Coast; another project carried out by Vanesa Martín Galán is located to Tupi-Guaraní people of the Bolivian dry forest (Chaco); and the third, carried out by Dan Rosengren, is located to Matsigenka people of the Peruvian high jungle.
Members
- Vanessa Martín Galán
- Stefan Permanto
- Dan Rosengren