Presentation short abstract

We present an intimate conversation about our journeys as engaged environmental justice researchers and lesson learned in the process of trying to decolonize ourselves from our colonial gaze in the production of knowledge.

Presentation long abstract

We present an intimate conversation about our journeys as engaged environmental justice researchers and lesson learned in the process of trying to decolonize ourselves from our colonial gaze in the production of knowledge. Our work focuses on designing and applying transformative research agendas to co-produce knowledge with people affected by environmental conflicts and disasters in Latin America. The aim of this exercise is to reflect about the need for, and challenges of, decolonizing the self in our attempt to develop horizontal, reciprocal, and equitable relations with those we co-produce knowledge with. We look within and dive into our own research trajectories to identify how our practice has changed overtime and shaped how we do environmental justice research today. This is also a call for other researchers to reflect about, and to care for, their body-territories in their engaged environmental justice praxis.