Presentación de Tirso Gonzales (Canadá) en el marco del Seminario Internacional de Expertos sobre 'Diversidad Cultural, Sistemas Alimentarios y Estrategias Tradicionales de Vida' realizado del 4 al 6 de noviembre de 2014 en Cusco Perú.

1. An Andean Matrix to Nurture
Kawsay
Una Matriz Andina para la Crianza del Kawsay
Tirso Gonzales
Indigenous Studies Program
The University of British Columbia
Intnl Seminar, “Cultural Diversity, Food Systems &
Traditional Life Strategies
Cusco, Peru, Nov.06.2014

2. Outline / Resúmen
Introducción
Visiones del Mundo, Sistemas de conocimiento, Epistemologías
Agri-culturas
• Kawsay/ Jaka = La vida toda = Life as a Whole
• Eurocentrismo = Colonización= Colonialidad = Matriz de
dominación (Colonialidad del Poder, Colonialidad del Conocimiento)
• Colonialidad del Conocimiento = Investigación Científica
• Epistemologia(s): Teoria(s) del Conocimiento (Holistica;
Fragmentada/Sectorial)
• Autonomía(s)

3. What is Cultural Affirmation?
• The affirmation of Sumaq Kawsay, (“Well Being”) cultural
identity and self-determination according to the Indigenous
Peoples’ Cosmic vision & its association with the territorial
autonomies
• A radical demand for cultural diversity

5. K
The IAASTD Reports
(www.agassessment.org)
• Global / sub-Global Reports: 400 authors, 52 countries
• US $11 million dollars
• Sub Global Reports:
Central & West Asia & North Africa
East and South Asia & the Pacific
North America & Europe
Sub Saharan Africa
Latin America & the Caribbean

6. Transition to sustainable / organic / ecological / resilient
agriculture
Which way forward?

8. towards an epistemology
of ANDEAN CULTURAL AFFIRMATION
Building epistemological bridges
http://vimeo.com/anthropocene/shortfilm

11. Epistemolo-
gical
BRIDGES
FOR
RESPECTFU
L
DIALOGUE
ON AN
EQUAL
FOOTING

13. Indigenous Autonomy & Self-determination

15. ECUADOR
COLOMBIA
PERU
BOLIVIA
ARGENTINA
Latin American
Indigenous
Epistemologies
Andean Indigenous
Epistemology

16. No caminenos separados, dispersos.
Seamos un sólo corazón

17. Peru: 63 Nations within a
Colonial Nation State
Secoya
Quechua
Quechua
Quechua
Quechua
Quechua
Quechua
Quechua
Jaqaru
Ticuna
Yagua
Bora
Resígaro Huitoto
OrejónIquito
Arabela
Taushiro
Urarina
Achuar
Huambisa
Aguaruna
Chayahuita
Jebero Chamicuro
Cadoshi
Cocama-cocamilla
Omagua Mayoruna
Capanahua
Shipibo-conibo
Cashibo-cacataibo
Amahuaca
Cashinahua
Yaminahua
Asháninka
Yanesha Piro
Piro
Campa caquinteNomatsiguenga
Machiguenga
Iñapari
Amahuaca
Shipibo
Ese ejaHarakmbut
Ayamara
Ayamara
Culina

18. Total Indigenous
Population: 350 million
Aymara

19. SEARCHING FOR METHODOLOGIES AND PROTOCOLS
FOLLOWED BY ANDEAN INDIGENOUS
ORGANIZATIONS:
PRATEC, AGRUCO & ASOCIACION ANDES

20. Latitud del Kawsay:
Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina (Central Andes)
Life as a whole
La vida toda

21. Other goals
(other
actors)
Research
(Universities, Think tank
institutions, United Nations)
Business
profitability
Indigenous Peasants
State
Institutions
Techno-science
Local Knowledge
• Climate Change
• Biodiversity Conservation
• Ecosystem Management
• Food Security
• Development / “Buen Vivir” –
Sumaq Kawsay / Suma Jakaña
Stakeholders’ Goals and Cognitive Bases
Adapted from Rengifo 2011

23. About Place:
• Eurocentrism: Anthropocene, Placelessness
• Ecocentrism: Out of the Anthropocene
• Kawsay: Andes-Pachacentrism-Pachacene

24. ORIGIN OF MAJOR LOCAL & GLOBAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY
ANDEAN AMAZONIAN COMMUNITIES’ PERSPECTIVE
GENERALIZED LOSS OF
RESPECT
 AMONG HUMANS
 TOWARD NATURE
 TOWARD DEITIES
WE HAVE TO COME
BACK TO RESPECT

25. BASIC DATA: PERUVIAN ANDEAN
AMAZONIAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES.
• Peru: Indigenous population 7+ million
• Officially grouped in Comunidades Campesinas, (CC)
and Comunidades Nativas (CN) = 7,000
Registered & with land titles:
• Comunidades Campesinas, CC. July 2001: 5,827 CC
• Comunidades Nativas, CN. 1,173 CN

27. RUNAS SALLQA
WACAS / APUS
CHACRA
DIVERSITY
ANDEAN COSMOVISION NURTURER OF
DIVERSITY

28. On the Knowledge Regenerated by the PRATEC-NACA
Andean Experience:
• World view / Cosmic vision
• Philosophical
• Theoretical
• Methodological
• Paradigm / Approach
HOLISTIC APPROACH
TO
• Food sufficiency
• Biodiversity Conservation
• Climate Change
• Education
PACHA-CHACRA CENTRIC
APPROACH
THROUGH CULTURAL
AFFIRMATION
NURTURING KAWSAY / JAKA

29. Food Sufficiency from the Andean Community’s
Perspective
“Grow everything, in order to eat
everything, among all of us
(Us = human community, nature community,
community of deities and gods)”

30. 8,000 years of Andean-
Amazonian Cultural
Affirmation
Chala
=masl= meters above sea level
or Cordillera
Jalca
or

31. 8 Natural Regions
Precolonial Names
NACAs:
Peru: Location Collective of PRATEC-Nuclei of Andean Cultural Affirmation,
NACAs
PERU: High Ecological Diversity:
82 of the planet’s 103 life-zones

32. COSMOLOGICAL FRAME
Community-Based Adaptive Strategies for Climate Change
Territorial Scenarios
(8 Natural Regions. 82 of the planet’s
103 life zones)---
Dimensions/Compone
nts
Basin’s
biocultural
landscape
Chacra
(productive
activity)
Housing
&
food
1. Infrastructure
2. Organizational
3. Rituals & Festivities
4. Dialogue with nature

34. Research Methodology:
The Cartillas de Saberes
http://www.pratecnet.org/index.php?o
ption=com_content&view=article&id=
61&Itemid=77

35. PRATEC’s Booklets of Wisdom and
Knowledge/Saberes
(Cartillas)

37. Two Different Cosmovisions
PRATEC recognizes that:
Central to the search for dialogue and exchange
between two different cultures is this encounter
between different cosmovisions and its implications
for intercultural dialogue in general and for the
promotion of cultural diversity in particular.

38. • Impressive Critical Mass.
• What has been LASA’s
contribution to
strengthen Indigenous
Peoples’s livelihoods,
cultures, languages,
knowledge systems, and
selfdetermination?
 Euro-American Approaches & Epistemology
 Use of Imperial Languages