Locating Women’s Leadership in Their History and Territory: Emerging Forms of Knowledge in the Face of Environmental and Climate Change
Friday, 11 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: ASJE031 (Annex of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences)
RC38 Biography and Society (host committee)
Language: English
In this session, we welcome papers that engage with historical and political processes through which women’s leadership in the environmental context emerges. While particularly interested in Indigenous leadership, we welcome studies on women leaders from other contexts.
We want to explore how to define leadership by locating the biographies and trajectories of women leaders in the discourses about their past and how these relate to current discourses on environmental protection. We seek to identify historical events and dynamics that shape their field of action and, in doing so, reconstruct their historical emergence and their role in the territory—be it towards change or not.
We are driven to gain an understanding of how they conceive the notion of territory, considering power and colonial dynamics in short—and long-term processes of environmental change, and also see how we can work with the concept of territory as an analytical tool.
Lastly, we must consider the economic and material realities that challenge notions of indigenous and local territory, particularly when it comes to protecting natural resources. So, we ask how women leaders negotiate multiple and sometimes contradictory demands—within and beyond their lived territories.
Session Organizers:
Anke KAULARD, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru and
Victoria TABOADA GOMEZ, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Chair:
Constanza PARRA, KU Leuven, Belgium
Oral Presentations
Practices of Resistance, Practices of Care:
The Role of Indigenous Women in the Peruvian Central Amazon Region in the Context of Dispossession of Territory
Maria Eugenia ULFE, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru;
Iris JAVE PINEDO, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile / Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru;
Roxana VERGARA RODRÍGUEZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru;
Abdul TRELLES, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru;
Ariana GARATE, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru;
Andrea LUNA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru;
Roberto SANCHEZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru
