Intercultural research is a process of epistemological deconstruction and decolonization that emerges from the cosmofeeling, cosmothinking and cosmoknowledge of the Indigenous Peoples. It was born as a response to the epistemic injustice around the validity of ancestral knowledge, which has been one of the forms of oppression and domination of the colonial system.
The Gathering of Indigenous Women Researchers with different actors in research and knowledge production will help strengthen and better position those research processes that are based on the priorities of Indigenous Women. They are founded on commitments, responsibilities and collective actions carried as Indigenous Women, as indigenous researchers and academics in universities and research centres, for the deconstruction of the hegemonic epistemology and for the articulation and political advocacy in the defence of the individual and collective rights of the Indigenous Women, Girls and Youth of the world, and of Mother Earth.

By participating in the round tables, researchers from different backgrounds and academic traditions will be able to exchange experiences and reflections related to the methodological challenges they face in the course of their research, thus contributing to strengthening this approach and its political and transformative potential.

By filling out the online registration form available through this link click here, according to the category to which you belong.

In order to highlight the results achieved through intercultural methodology, as well as to generate constructive and enriching exchanges between FIMI graduates and researchers from different backgrounds and academic traditions, there will be round tables where each researcher will have the opportunity to present their experiences and reflections surrounding the methodology applied in their research. The presentations will have to be articulated around the following thematic axes:

• Why intercultural research? Objectives, implementation and transformative and political perspectives .
• From decolonial theory to transformative intercultural practice: Research for advocacy
• Challenges of intercultural research and its importance for current and future research

• Overcoming the hegemonic academic paradigm to decolonize knowledge and power: what is the political intention of my research? What is the political intention of the women, community or peoples where I am carrying out the research? What is the cosmogonic and political foundation of my research?
• From decolonial theory to transformative practice: To what extent can my research influence and transform my reality and that of the women in my community / the Indigenous Women with whom I worked? What transformations resulted from my research, for the community as well as on a personal level? Where is my research today and what is happening with the participating community and women? Was the proposal, advocacy plan or recommendations of the research successfully implemented? How did the process unfold? What is of my research today?
• Intercultural methodology and its implementation in a field study: what was the focus of my research methodology? What is intercultural methodology for me, and how did I implement it in my research? What participatory methodologies did I implement, with which actors? Where do the Indigenous Women who participated in the research stand after the field work and in the final study? What elements of this methodology or research make it intercultural?
• What challenges and best practices can we identify in community research led by non-indigenous and Indigenous Women? What lessons can you draw from your experience as an indigenous and intercultural researcher? What lessons can you draw as a non-indigenous researcher in working with Indigenous Women and their peoples? What do you recommend to contribute to decolonial and intercultural research?

Women researchers of FIMI’s Research Program.
Current or former participants of FIMI’s Research and Issues of Impact on the Lives of Indigenous Women Program

Indigenous researchers:
Indigenous Women members of Indigenous Women’s organizations.
People actively involved in mixed organizations and networks of Indigenous Peoples that carry out research activities specifically directed at Indigenous Women.

Academics:
Independent researchers or researchers affiliated with a university or research centre whose work is related to the issues addressed at the Gathering.

Experts from the international community:
Representatives of International Organizations and United Nations agencies, Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations specialized on the rights and Indigenous Women.

Special guests:
Indigenous Women leaders with extensive experience, with expertise in the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Women, donors.