Contradictorious Narratives on Women and Indigenous Groups in Discourses on Climate Change
Contradictorious Narratives on Women and Indigenous Groups in Discourses on Climate Change
Monday, 7 July 2025: 10:20
Location: SJES026 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
Oral Presentation
In the colonial structure based on colonized territories, for example in the Americas, indigenous groups and women are subjects that have been subalternized and endowed with certain understandings. In hegemonic discourses, indigenous groups and women have to be integrated into state structures, gender parity has to be promotee, they should be integrated into quota systems and into representation in parliaments and decision-making, on the one hand. On the other hand, because of this exclusion, they are groups whose actions are not seen as adequate for the development of nations and communities, but also for the ecology and the changes that have been experienced with current climate change. Thus I wish to discuss how it can be explained that it is such groups as indigenous people and women in their territories who contribute, at least in the Americas, to the sustainability of these territories and their ways of life, and moreover to the care and reproduction not only of life but of the territory and of the community as a social space that allows the sustainable protection of nature and of humans in a circular all-encompasing , physical and psychological condition of the human beings and Mother Earth as the provider of life and of space as our home.