The Gatekeepers of the Mountain: Environmental Conservation Discourses and Indigenous Everyday Practices in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

环境政治的目的是保护土地以供传统的土著居民使用，这一定会对土著居民有害吗？作为一个政治项目，合作在多大程度上可以作为一种解决方案出现？我提议与圣玛尔塔内华达山脉（SNSM）的土著维瓦人一起进行研究，这是环境保护主义议程与土著政治之间戏剧性和矛盾冲突的场景。我将探讨环境政治对土著身份话语的影响程度，以及这些话语如何反过来塑造环保主义话语。我将特别关注土著的支离破碎的表现如何影响维瓦人在环境管理中的政治立场。为了研究土著和环境行动者之间的冲突和合作，我将同时在Wiwa村庄进行实地考察，并与为非政府组织工作的环境专家一起收集生物多样性数据，以了解如何在实地积极创造环境话语。我的主要目标是阐明土著人民与环境行动者之间存在的冲突和合作机会。我也希望对SNSM的人类学文献做出贡献，摆脱对四个民族的同质化表述，其中维瓦人是其中的一部分。这些研究对未来SNSM的保护和依赖土著代表合法性的可持续发展形式具有启示意义

Are environmental politics aimed at preserving land for traditional indigenous use, bound to be harmful for indigenouspopulations? To what extent can collaboration as a political project arise as a solution? I propose to conduct researchwith the indigenous Wiwa in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (SNSM), which is the scene for dramatic and ambivalentencounters between environmentalist agendas and indigenous politics. I will explore the extent to which environmentalpolitics influence indigenous discourses of identity, and how those, in turn, shape conservationist discourses. I will focusspecifically on how fragmented representations of indigeneity affect the Wiwa's political stance in environmentalmanagement. To study conflict and collaboration between indigenous and environmental actors, I will simultaneouslyconduct fieldwork in Wiwa villages, and with environmental experts working for NGOs as they collect biodiversity data, tounderstand how environmental discourse is actively created on the ground. My main objective is to shed light on existingconflicts and opportunities for collaboration between indigenous peoples and environmental actors. I also hope tocontribute to the anthropological literature of the SNSM by moving away from homogenous representations of the FourPeoples, of which the Wiwa are part. Such research has implications for the future conservation of the SNSM and forforms of sustainable development relying on indigenous representation for legitimacy