Introducción al dossier: heterogeneidad ontológica y ontologías en conflicto en Sudamérica

Abstract

territorial dispossession and systematic violence by states and private companies. In this context, the study of ontologies does not mean a lack of interest in the political dimension that these peoples experience. On the contrary, it implies, among other things, seeking new ways of approaching politics. In order to understand the relationships between Indigenous Peoples and National states, the approach on conflicts and ontological heterogeneity allows to highlight the misunderstandings that these relationships involves. Territory, politics and natural resources do not refer to the same "thing" for National states, multinationals enterprise and Indigenous Peoples. In this sense, ontology has less to do with a plurality of cultural perspectives, but with a multiplicity of worlds. To take other forms of composing the world seriously is to recognize that we are not in the domain of native epistemologies, but of ontologies, and the ideas expressed by our interlocutors can no longer be read in terms of cultural imagination, metaphors or symbols of the reality out there.

Green colonialism and decolonial feminism: A study of Wayúu women’s resistance in La Guajira

“…This is why feminist collectives towards territorial defence recognise the inseparability of ontology and territory (Cabnal, 2010). Thus, ontology extends beyond cultural pluralism to encompass the multiplicity of worlds (Tola, 2020). This ontology of territorial community feminism is rooted in activist struggles in both rural and urban areas, where marginalised individuals generate ‘different, more reliable, knowledge because of conditions of inequality that mean they (have to) know dominant frames of legitimation in order to survive or thrive’ (Hemmings, 2012: 155).…”

¿Estamos sobre la misma montaña? Por una apertura ontológica de la conservación de los páramos

“…Al igual que Rosa, se podrían contar por miles los campesinos y campesinas que a lo largo del último siglo han vivido en este páramo tratando de construir sus proyectos colectivos de vida y que comparten historias similares. No sólo encontrando la forma de sobrevivir a la violencia, sino también de construir y reconstruir su mundo, es decir, reelaborando una ontología donde se establecen diversas entidades y unas relaciones particulares entre ellas (TOLA, 2020).…”

Do we inhabit the same mountain? Towards ontological openings in páramo conservation

“…Like Rosa, there are thousands of peasant men and women who have lived in this páramo over the last century trying to build their collective life projects who share similar stories. Not only having to find ways to survive the violence, but also to construct and reconstruct their world, that is to say, reworking an ontology where diverse entities and particular relationships between them are established (TOLA, 2020).…”