Mrs Sarah Capes

Contact details

Name:
Mrs Sarah Capes
Qualifications:
MA, PGCE, BA(Hons)
Position:
MPhil/PhD
Institute:
Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies
Location:
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU
Phone:
+447901502414
Email address:
sarah.capes@postgrad.sas.ac.uk
Studies:
Student

Research Projects & Supervisions
PhD Topic:

Indigenous Voices in International Environmental Politics: The Translation of Worlds between the Amazon and the Conference Room

This research examines the language through which Indigenous peoples’ issues are conceptualised in international environmental politics and compares this to how Achuar and Cocama communities in the Peruvian Amazon describe the environmental challenges they face. It addresses the under-research area of what is (and is not) admitted and diffused as knowledge reciprocally between Indigenous communities and the international community. It examines the implications for Indigenous communities of integrating and assimilating international environmental narratives and analyses whether related institutions enable Indigenous peoples' interests to be not only voiced but authentically defined, captured, and equitably valued.

Supervisor:
Dr Ainhoa Montoya
Research interests:
Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Communities, Classes, Races, Cultural memory, Globalization & Development, Human rights, International Relations, Philosophy, Political Institutions, Social Sciences

Regions:
South America
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