Walking Together in Indigenous Research

Geographies of Emancipation and the Production of Autonomy in the P’urhépecha Forest

This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation conducted from 2015 to 2018 in the forest of Cherán, Michoacán. During my time as an artist-researcher-in-residence at El Colegio de Michoacán, I investigated colonial violence in its many forms: extraction, state-sponsored violence, land appropriation, and enforced disappearance. This research was conducted with the approval and support of the Concejo Mayor de Gobierno Comunal de Cherán K’eri 2015–2018, the primary Indigenous authority in the community.

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