TY - JOUR

T1 - Performing Contested Lands

T2 - Conservation and the Conflictive Enactments of Indigenous Territoriality in Lowland Ecuador

AU - Krøijer, Stine

PY - 2023/10/11

Y1 - 2023/10/11

N2 - Through four tableaux, this article explores the historical efforts of the Siekopai (Secoya) people to claim territorial rights over Pëekë'ya—an area of black water lagoons and flooded forests on the border between Peru and Ecuador—and unfolds their various enactments of land through performative acts of contestation and collaboration. By emulating shamanic thoughts about the wetland as a transition zone between villages and worlds, the tableaux as form represent a rethinking of land as multiple and partially overlapping realities where shifting territorial and conservation management regimes never result in stable environmental subjectivities.

AB - Through four tableaux, this article explores the historical efforts of the Siekopai (Secoya) people to claim territorial rights over Pëekë'ya—an area of black water lagoons and flooded forests on the border between Peru and Ecuador—and unfolds their various enactments of land through performative acts of contestation and collaboration. By emulating shamanic thoughts about the wetland as a transition zone between villages and worlds, the tableaux as form represent a rethinking of land as multiple and partially overlapping realities where shifting territorial and conservation management regimes never result in stable environmental subjectivities.

U2 - 10.1111/blar.13524

DO - 10.1111/blar.13524

M3 - Journal article

JO - Bulletin of Latin American Research

JF - Bulletin of Latin American Research

ER -