Aspirations for socio-ecological transformation – Indigenous women’s collective action for food sovereignty and anticipation of climate change
ActiveDescription
This research examines the role of Quechua women’s collectives as protagonists of socio-ecological transformation. My scientific interest stems from the aspect of women being disproportionately affected by climate change, especially through their often attributed role as providers of food. In addition, food is increasingly subject to speculation and is characterized by unequal power relations, which in turn have a particularly strong impact on farmers. Against this background, I would like to shed light on processes of collective action for food sovereignty and the related adaptation to climate change by understanding collective action as an interface between ecological, social and political demands. Since the question of transformation is inseparable from a temporal component and indigenous perspectives are underrepresented, especially in terms of identifying future options for action, I focus the research on perspectives on the future and their interconnectedness with present collective organization: To what extent does a notion of the future shape collective action, and how does collective action in the present construct a particular vision of the future? By applying a combined framework of feminist political ecology and anticipatory anthropology to the data collected from participatory field research and participant observation in the southeastern Peruvian Andes, the study seeks to highlight notions of future aspirations and contribute to the visualization of gendered indigenous approaches to collective action for food sovereignty.
Project Details
- Project Type
- Dissertation
- Subject Group
- Law, Economics and Social Sciences
- Subject Classification
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Start
- 2022
- End
- 2025
Organization
- Faculty/Central Institute
- Institute for Latin American Studies
- Institute/Seminar
- International Research Training Group "Temporalities of Future"
- Field/Work Area
- Cultural and Social Anthropology
Project Team
- Director
- Eva Kirmes
Contact
- Homepage
- lai.fu-berlin.de
- Homepage 2
- lai.fu-berlin.de
Researchers
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Eva Kirmes
Former