Indigenous peoples and extension: considerations for dialogue-based work of knowledge

Abstract

The objective of this work is to reflect on how to problematize our extensionist practices with indigenous peoples, their scope and limits, the discomforts we go through, and the challenges when converging in projects where many times there are intersections between different ways of being and being in the "world".
Within these coordinates, I propose to situate the extension in precise historical contexts, from which biopolitical devices can be identified that territorialize indigenous peoples on planes of subordination and subalternization. Through the recognition of diverse modalities of self-description and struggle, which make visible the capacities of agency that they put into play in their daily practices, I focus on making explicit some considerations that attend to making visible the historical construction of otherness on the part of scientific disciplines and state agents, while at the same time epistemological and ontological discussions to be taken into account in the extensionist praxis from the dialogue of knowledge.