Translating worlds, defending land collaborations for indigenous rights and environmental politics in Amazonia / Casey High.
| Author/creator | High, Casey, 1977 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | xv, 208 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Collaborations for indigenous rights and environmental politics in Amazonia |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Contents | Sharing uncommon ground -- Collaborations in an Amazonian contemporary -- Speaking differently -- Translating environmental politics -- COP26 and the limits of collaboration -- How anthropologists lie -- Unfinished business -- Between hope and apocalypse. |
| Abstract | "In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists, lawyers, and other Indigenous groups, they successfully sued the government for selling oil concessions without prior consent. Placing their struggle for territorial autonomy in the global spotlight, this unprecedented legal victory for environmental rights by an Indigenous people reflected the new forms of collaboration emerging in contemporary Amazonia. Translating Worlds, Defending Land explores how Waorani collaborations, whether with environmentalists or academic researchers, bring about new possibilities, challenges, and imaginative horizons. Based on fieldwork over a period of twenty-five years, Casey High interrogates what these engagements mean for Indigenous communities and how they offer critical reflection on collaboration as a concept, method, and practice. The alliances, misunderstandings, and conflicts that emerge in these contexts challenge the assumption that productive collaborations reflect--or require--shared purposes, generating important implications for an engaged anthropology open to reconsidering what constitutes ethnographic knowledge and who it is for. As some young Waorani adults become not just community leaders or environmental citizens, but also skilled researchers and ethnographers, translating between Indigenous understandings of land and the Western language conservation, they create a powerful new voice in international environmental politics"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-200) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024027215 |
| ISBN | 9781503640481 cloth |
| ISBN | 9781503641464 paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |