CHANSE Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: University of Paris 8
• Country: France (FR)

Research area

• Call theme: Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities
• Keywords:

  Environmental crisis; resistances; indigenous women; art; Amazonia

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  I am an anthropologist. I am currently developing a post-doctoral research on the resistances caused by the expansion of the extractivist development model in the Ecuadorian Amazon. My work articulates the category of gender with that of social class and race / ethnicity, in an intersectional perspective, in order to analyse, specifically, how women and land defense struggles are linked in the context of the Amazon rainforest. In this sense, my current research covers, on the one hand, indigenous women identities, their constructions (symbolic and social) and their manifestations in social relations; and, on the other hand, the perceptions and individual and collective reactions of indigenous women regarding extractive activities and its impacts on communities, to analyse the relationships between the two. Through an interdisciplinary methodological approach combining history, anthropology, decolonial theories, feminist and political ecology studies, I seek to understand the place of social and environmental concerns in the discourses and the organization of indigenous women in the present century.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  In the continuity of this project, I would like to propose a project focused on art as a form of resistance to the environmental crisis and the advance of the extractivist development model in the Amazon. Different forms of artistic expression of indigenous women have re-emerged to face the process of "hypermasculinization" of social relations that has taken place in the context of the expansion of this development model. I would like to address these artistic manifestations and the onto-epistemologies on which they are based, as a potential contribution to the creation of alternative knowledge about indigenous women identities and their territories, opening up space for more sustainable, equity and resilient views of the world. In particular, this project will examine the degree to which indigenous women from the Ecuadorian Amazon have responded to the aspirations of the anti-patriarchal, anti-colonial and post-extractivist imagined futures: of equity in accessing to land; promoting a plurality of knowledges; preserving environment, good-living and autonomy of their bodies and territories which have been silenced and absent in the dominant national, regional and global context.

Sofia Cevallos Vivar

• Organisation: University of Paris 8
• Position: post-doctoral researcher
• E-mail: "nora-sofia.cenora-sofia.cevallos-vivar@univ-paris8.fr
• Phone: +33 695545744
• Web: www.awareforest-msca.com/