Ontologies, Historicity, and Territory in the Upper Amazon (Phase 2)

This project addresses the need to clarify the concept of territory, especially in the context of tensions between the territorial logic of the nation-state and the territorial practices of indigenous peoples, such as the Siekopai. It recognizes that the State imposes a territorial ontology (analytical, practical, and normative) that is often foreign to ancestral communities, leading to conflicts over access to land and resources. The methodology combines bibliographic review and cartographic analysis of the territorial issues of the Western Tukano (Siekopai ancestors) with intensive fieldwork. This fieldwork includes visits to ancestral trails and interviews with elders from specific communities to gather their interpretation of spatial ontological interactions and their relationship with Siekopai cosmology. Finally, the collected data is systematized and interpreted, comparing existing documentation with the community's living territorial practices to understand land appropriation.<br/><br/><b>Goal</b>: <br/>The main objective is to identify and compare the different territorial ontologies that interact in the dynamics between the nation-state and indigenous peoples, focusing on the case of the Siekopai.<br/><br/><b>Research lines</b>: <br/>State, citizenship, public policies and interculturality