Researching the intersectionalities of urban indigeneity and quilombo groups: Urban socio-spatial politics in the colonial present

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Focusing on urban indigenous peoples, urban Afro-descendant quilombo communities, and female Bolivian market vendors in the Andes and Brazil, this panel explores the intersections between race, ethnicity, class, gender, language, location, and space. To make sense of these intersectionalities on the ground, the papers offer grounded conceptualisations deriving from ethnographic research and/or engage with different theoretical approaches, such as settler colonial studies, indigenous planning, and the coloniality of power. Collectively, they ask: What are the limits of existing intersectional conceptualizations of ‘race’, 'ethnicity', blackness, and indigeneity, and to what extent have they been helpful in understanding the complex lived experiences of these different groups? How do these groups challenge as well as reinforce colonial socio-spatial orders in Latin American cities? What does this imply for struggles for social justice, anti-racism, indigenous politics, and/or decolonization in the city?

Sub Track

• Afro-Latin/Indigenous Peoples

Session Organizer

• Aiko Ikemura Amaral, University of Essex

Chair

• Desiree Poets, Virginia Tech

Individual Presentations

• Embracing Intersectionality in Urban Indigenous Planning: Evidence from Bolivia and Ecuador - Philipp Horn, University of Sheffield

• 'But, how do you refer to them?’ Racialisation of Bolivian market vendors in Brazil and intersections of mobility, indigeneity and citizenship - Aiko Ikemura Amaral, University of Essex

• Rio de Janeiro’s Quilombo Sacopã and the Limits of Settler Colonial Studies in Latin America: Elimination, dispossession, and resurgence in the mixed nation - Desiree Poets, Virginia Tech