Epistemological Cooperation at ICMBio: learning from traditional peoples and the People Development Policy of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation
Decoloniality, Epistemic justice, Environmental justice, Corporate education, Experience.
Based on personal experiences of learning from traditional peoples, experiences I had within the scope of the People Development Policy of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation and theoretical contributions arising mainly from the intrinsic relationship between modernity, coloniality and decoloniality, I investigate how and why the most significant learnings I have had throughout my career as a public servant at this Institute did not take place within the scope of the policy structured to empower us, but with those social groups. In order to contribute with answers, I aim to analyze what has been learned from the traditional peoples of ICMBio employees, among whom I include myself, considering our institutional trajectories, including within the scope of the People Development Policy of this municipality. Based on a narrative, (auto)biographical and experiential approach; It is based on an autobiographical writing, and later on a contextualization of this through interviews with other civil servants and documents related to that institutional policy, that I seek to advance towards the objectives of the research, among which are the identification and proposition of horizons for the promotion of institutional learning with traditional peoples. Finally, it is based on a content analysis of the narratives present in those institutional documents, and those produced through my autobiographical writing and interviews, that I aim to account for the intended objectives.