A Young Guarani in the Arctic: Ekologos Project, International Academic Exchange for Indigenous Youth ...

• Main Author: Medina, Luiz Felipe
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Highland Institute 2024
• Subjects: Ekologos; colonial domination; international academic exchange; indigenous peoples; Arctic; Norway; Tromsø; Arctic University of Norway; UiT The Arctic University of Norway
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11002209; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11002209

This essay is a brief account of my three-month period as a visiting researcher at the State University of Campinas representing the Brazilian team in the Ekologos project in Norway. During the programme, I was attached to the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences/Unicamp to carry out a research internship at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, in Tromsø. In this text, I present my trajectory as a young indigenous researcher and recount some of the moments and encounters I experienced in the Arctic. How could intergenerational conversations and cross-cultural exchanges between indigenous scholars establish links between the colonial processes taking place in such di erent nations — Brazil, India, and Norway? We identi ed some similarities between colonial domination in the three countries and shared some of the impacts that colonization has had on our indigenous subjectivities and identities. ...