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5 - Stakes

Conducting Relational Research with Indigenous Peoples

from Part I - Developing a Methodology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2023

By
Marcela Vecchione-gonçalves  and
Hannah Hughes
Edited by
Hannah Hughes  and
Alice B. M. Vadrot
Hannah Hughes
Affiliation:
Aberystwyth University
Alice B. M. Vadrot
Affiliation:
Universität Wien, Austria
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Summary

In this chapter, I describe how my research with Indigenous Peoples has informed my understanding and conceptualization of what ethical research with Indigenous negotiators, representatives, and researchers at environmental negotiations based on the principle of relationality entails. Following Indigenous scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith, I reflect on how I build relationality with Indigenous groups taking their politics at the negotiations in dialogue with their politics at the territory as part of a diplomatic effort (Indigenous diplomacies) of reciprocity between the world of global environmental negotiations, which is a world of multilateralism, and the worlds of Indigenous Peoples, which is a pluriverse of life projects. For doing this, methodologically, I look at Indigenous participation at negotiations, and in a given meeting, in conversation with how they define global environmental negotiations as both a political place and a political event that is part of a continuous political process.

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Indigenous diplomaciesIndigenous researchethicsterritoryenvironmental negotiationscosmopoliticslifeways
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Conducting Research on Global Environmental Agreement-Making , pp. 74 - 90
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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1.de La Cadena, M. (2015) Earth-Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds. Durham, NC: Morgan Lectures Series: Duke University Press.Google Scholar
In this book, Marisol de la Cadena tells us stories and strategies of Indigenous Peoples in the Andes on building relations with humans and nonhumans to achieve balance in contention to difference between many different lifeways and environments. Although it is not a book on the role of Indigenous Peoples or of a specific Indigenous group in negotiations, it addresses in a detailed and relational way how the Turpos, an extended family of Quechua people, have been building what she calls political strategies to keep their world alive in relation to the other political environments or worlds that make the Andean region. By telling this story, she also expands on her way of doing research with them and producing knowledge about politics there and elsewhere.Google Scholar
2.Brysk, A. (2000). From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America. Stanford: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
3.Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the Pluriverse Radical Interdependence Autonomy and the Making of Worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.Google Scholar
4.Li, T. M. (2014). Land’s End Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.Google Scholar

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