Mrs Sarah Capes
MPhil/PhD Student [email protected] Profile
PhD Topic
Indigenous Voices in International Environmental Politics: The Translation of Worlds between the Amazon and the Conference Room
This research examines the language through which Indigenous peoples’ issues are conceptualised in international environmental politics and compares this to how Achuar and Cocama communities in the Peruvian Amazon describe the environmental challenges they face. It addresses the under-research area of what is (and is not) admitted and diffused as knowledge reciprocally between Indigenous communities and the international community. It examines the implications for Indigenous communities of integrating and assimilating international environmental narratives and analyses whether related institutions enable Indigenous peoples' interests to be not only voiced but authentically defined, captured, and equitably valued.
Research interests
Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Communities, Classes, Races, Cultural memory, Globalization & Development, Human rights, International Relations, Philosophy, Political Institutions, Social Sciences
