Our PI, Professor Lorenza Fontana, will be participating at the 14th European Conference on the Analysis of Political Societies.
She will be speaking at the “Table ronde 2 – Autochtonie et nature”.

→ When: December 12, from 11:30AM to 1:15PM
→ Where: Sciences Po – Paris, France

The imperative of environmental protection and that of safeguarding Indigenous peoples are often presented as two mutually reinforcing issues. Indigenous peoples are portrayed as the guardians of nature par excellence, and their knowledge is considered essential for its conservation. However, when Indigeneity is claimed as a status that grants rights of control over a territory, we instead observe a naturalization of the relationships between different groups or social identities.
Who are the actors advancing these claims? What tensions arise between the definition of nature and that of Indigeneity? How does the (re)invention of Indigeneity contribute to the definitions of nature? And how do these definitions ultimately shape the ways environmental issues are approached?