The project

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This research covers two main aspects: 1. indigenous women identities, their constructions and their manifestations in social relations; and 2. the perceptions as well as the reactions of indigenous women regarding the impacts of oil extraction. AWAREFOREST’s overarching objective is to study alternative onto-epistemologies formed through socio-environmental struggles, and its 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. Browsing through the stories of struggles of indigenous women and using a research-action based metodology, the EU-funded AWAREFOREST project will examine the degree to which indigenous women from the Ecuadorian Amazon have responded  during the last years 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.