"Meliponicultura": Stories and Knowledge Exchange
Reforesting minds
A conversation with Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz on Indigenous knowledge as a response to the ecological crisis
20. January 2023
17.00-19.00
17.00-19.00
Save the Date
for adults
in German/in English
We invite you to a conversation with Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz, an interdisciplinary researcher and Indigenous Ëyuujk woman. She combines different worlds in her work and life. She has conducted research on agricultural techniques, water management and irrigation systems. She combines her scientific work with a commitment to the biocultural heritage and knowledge of Indigenous Peoples and their relevance to global social and environmental challenges.
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Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz is engaged at the international level as a consultant for Stockholm International Water Institute-UNDP Water Governance facility. She is a member of the Futuros Indígenas Collective, a network on narratives of resistance that organizes to “reforest minds” and “indigenize hearts”, emphasizing that it is Indigenous Peoples who defend 80% of the biodiversity remaining in the world. They are therefore "living alternatives to the climate crisis." In 2020, in her hometown of Tamazulapam del Espiritu Santo, Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz received her "Baston de Mando" (a symbolic wooden stick used as a sign of authority) to do a year of work for the community. Tamazulapam is located in the mountains of the "Sierra Norte" in Oaxaca (Mexico). The Ëyuujk who live here are also known as "the never defeated people" who successfully resisted the colonizers. The attached picture shows the panorama of the "ïpx yuukp" (20 peaks), taken by Eulalia Martinez-Cruz during her ritual walk recommended by the xëëmapy (shaman) of the community to thank Mother Earth.
For the exhibition XOOK K'IIN perceiving temporalities, open from April 23, Martinez-Cruz, together with other authors, has written the text LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS DEL MUNDO: UNA CLAVE PARA LA CRISIS CLIMÁTICA. El caso del Xook K'iin y la milpa del pueblo maya (Link to the Spanish version)
Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz website
The conversation will take place in a small circle in the library of the Spore Initiative. We want to exchange with Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz about the importance of Indigenous knowledge for dealing with climate crisis, food sovereignty and access to drinking water.
The conversation will take place in English. If needed, there will be a whisper translation into German.
If you are running a bit late and the door is locked, you can call in at: +49 176 87945508.
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