26 November 2025 – 11:00 a.m.
Auditorium 1 and Online
The ‘Challenges of International Cooperation in Indigenous Contexts’ is a proposal for a ‘critical deconstruction’ of the conventional paradigms of international cooperation, whose empirical object is the case of the Tikuna people of the Amazonian triple frontier (Brazil, Colombia, and Peru). Seeking to redefine the concept of ‘cooperation’ in indigenous contexts, not only under the exclusive domain of inter-state relations, but as a ‘dynamic field of negotiation’ in knowledge systems and epistemologies. In the Tikuna cooperative economy, the principles of reciprocity, sustainable management and a cosmocentric worldview are confronted with the expansionist pressures of global capitalism and illicit extractive economies. These contrasts generate socio-environmental impacts on the forest and the people who live there, including their cultural traditions. In contrast to the situation described above, strategies of resistance and adaptation are presented in the form of self-surveillance of the territory, solidarity-based economic circles, and cross-border political coordination.
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