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A decolonial and participatory research approach to envision equitable transformations toward sustainability in the Amazon
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Stockholm Resilience Centre.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4036-3725
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Number of Authors: 72025 (English)In: Futures: The journal of policy, planning and futures studies, ISSN 0016-3287, E-ISSN 1873-6378, Vol. 172, article id 103638Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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How people relate to and see themselves as part of nature relations differs worldwide and often depends on culture and worldviews. Nonetheless, challenging the dominant Euro-Western epistemic domination is needed to attain more equitable and sustainable future visions. This change entails fostering decolonial mediation between different knowledge systems in a context of intersectional difference. The collective struggles of Black, Indigenous, and other Women of Color (BIWOC) for self-determination shed light on pathways of decolonial mediations and how to attain epistemic equity when thinking about the future. Echoing the call of BIWOC to use decoloniality in knowledge co-creation, we co-created a border space together with 20 BIWOC in the Putumayo department of Colombia. In this space, we jointly envisioned three radical visions of the Amazon through scenario-building exercises between 2022 and 2023. Storytelling is a powerful tool to capture the BIWOC’s differentiated experience of the world and to explore their individual and collective emancipation from different forms of oppression. Decolonial mediations support the (co-)design of a “safe enough” space for questioning and rethinking Euro-Western domination. Our research also indicates that incorporating decolonial praxis into sustainability transformation research can allow for a more radical envisioning of the future.

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2025. Vol. 172, article id 103638
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BIWOC, Border space, Epistemology, Future thinking, Justice
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-245659DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2025.103638ISI: 001510762300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105007675676OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-245659DiVA, id: diva2:1990921
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