Congratulations to GRSJ PhD candidate Romina Tantaleán-Castañeda on her recent International Doctoral Research Award for her research in collaboration with the Federation of Indigenous Women of Atalaya Province (FEMIPA) in the Peruvian Central East Amazon.
The study aims to explore ways to conceptualize and enforce the rights of mother nature from a legal pluralist approach based on Indigenous knowledge systems. The research will prioritize, center and amplify the knowledge, perspectives and voices of Indigenous women’s leaders and defenders on socio-environmental, territorial and climate justice issues, with the goal of understanding how they navigate, resist and Indigenize these issues. The study will use mixed methods and feminist participatory action research (FPAR) that is culturally and contextually place-based, informed by Indigenous and decolonial methodologies. in collaboration with the Federation of Indigenous Women of Atalaya Province (FEMIPA) in the Peruvian Central East Amazon.
Funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and administered by Universities Canada, the IDRA supports the development of research skills in Canada and the Global South, to improve the lives of people in the developing world.
