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Addressing conflicts through understandings of “respect” : a collaborative research with two indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon Vasquez Fernandez, Andrea Milagros
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Indigenous Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon are tired of constant disrespectful attitudes and behaviours coming from outsiders (including researchers, private and public organizations, NGOs, and tourists) that impact the Amazon through dangerous laws, policies, projects, and programs that do not support their Indigenous views of “development.” Amazonian Indigenous Peoples want to share with the world their praxis of respect anchored in a highly contextualized network of relationships (including human and other-than-human beings) that generate a more fulfilling life in their communities and it could also contribute to tackling contemporaneous world crises. This collaborative study that resulted from the invitation from the Asheninka and Yine Amazonian Indigenous Peoples explored three main questions: how they feel, think, practice, and conceive what in English is translated as “respect”; why it is important to understand Amazonian Indigenous praxis of respect; and how Indigenous views can inform and transform dominant models of respect. The principal results of this research study are: (1) an approach to Indigenous sustainabilities that encourages the practice of desired futures, instead of development, and respectful inter-being-relationships, instead of sustainability; (2) a proposal for an intercultural respect praxis which differs from mutual respect that centers 10 guiding principles coming from Amazonian Indigenous perspectives; and (3) a methodological approach for research based on bridging and negotiating Indigenous and Western paradigms, called Intercultural Respectful Methodology (IRM), that attempts to decolonize and Indigenize interactions between outsiders and Amazonian Indigenous Peoples while working on their territories. On one hand, these results contribute to Asheninka and Yine efforts to inform and transform public policies that impact their lives and territories. On the other hand, learning from Amazonian Indigenous proposals for intercultural respect as an ethical principle and fundamental research praxis could contribute to more coherent and contextualized forestry practices.
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Addressing conflicts through understandings of “respect” : a collaborative research with two indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon
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University of British Columbia
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2024
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Indigenous Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon are tired of constant disrespectful attitudes and behaviours coming from outsiders (including researchers, private and public organizations, NGOs, and tourists) that impact the Amazon through dangerous laws, policies, projects, and programs that do not support their Indigenous views of “development.” Amazonian Indigenous Peoples want to share with the world their praxis of respect anchored in a highly contextualized network of relationships (including human and other-than-human beings) that generate a more fulfilling life in their communities and it could also contribute to tackling contemporaneous world crises. This collaborative study that resulted from the invitation from the Asheninka and Yine Amazonian Indigenous Peoples explored three main questions: how they feel, think, practice, and conceive what in English is translated as “respect”; why it is important to understand Amazonian Indigenous praxis of respect; and how Indigenous views can inform and transform dominant models of respect. The principal results of this research study are: (1) an approach to Indigenous sustainabilities that encourages the practice of desired futures, instead of development, and respectful inter-being-relationships, instead of sustainability; (2) a proposal for an intercultural respect praxis which differs from mutual respect that centers 10 guiding principles coming from Amazonian Indigenous perspectives; and (3) a methodological approach for research based on bridging and negotiating Indigenous and Western paradigms, called Intercultural Respectful Methodology (IRM), that attempts to decolonize and Indigenize interactions between outsiders and Amazonian Indigenous Peoples while working on their territories. On one hand, these results contribute to Asheninka and Yine efforts to inform and transform public policies that impact their lives and territories. On the other hand, learning from Amazonian Indigenous proposals for intercultural respect as an ethical principle and fundamental research praxis could contribute to more coherent and contextualized forestry practices.
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eng
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2024-10-22
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0447066
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University of British Columbia
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2024-11
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