par Sonetti Gonzalez, Tais 
Président du jury Truffin, Barbara
Promoteur Knops, Louise
Co-Promoteur García, María Mancilla
Publication Non publié, 2025-04-11
Président du jury Truffin, Barbara
Promoteur Knops, Louise
Co-Promoteur García, María Mancilla
Publication Non publié, 2025-04-11
Thèse de doctorat
| Résumé : | The 2030 Agenda presents an opportunity to discuss sustainability and envision desirable futures across different scales. It also emphasizes inclusion through its guiding principle of “leaving no one behind,” positioning the SDGs as a potentially transformative agenda. However, despite notable advances, the SDGs have been criticized for their top-down, one-size-fits-all approach, which risks disconnecting them from local realities—particularly those of Indigenous and Traditional Communities (IoTCs). This raises some critical questions such as: Is it possible to localize the SDGs in ways that promote socioecological justice rather than perpetuating environmental racism and systemic inequality? And What ethical and methodological principles can guide action research with IoTCs in multi-stakeholder processes to ensure the meaningful incorporation of their cosmovisions?This thesis synthesizes findings from four interconnected studies. Paper 1 explores sustainable development through the perspectives of IoTCs in the Brazilian Cerrado, using poetic analysis to reveal how the SDGs fail to capture relational and contextual dimensions, proposing a reinterpretation rooted in communal belonging. Paper 2 examines socioecological transformations through process-relational perspectives, integrating Latin American feminist conceptions to explore the virtual coexistence of multiple realities and the possibilities of virtual ancestral futures. Paper 3 addresses the methodological challenges of participatory research with multi-actors, advocating for approaches to knowledge co-production that center Indigenous and Traditional epistemologies. Paper 4 applies a system-thinking participatory approach to identify systemic barriers and structural actions that can drive integrated social transformations within the SDG framework. From these studies, three key insights emerge: (A) Interventions that disregard socioecological and cultural specificities risk perpetuating injustice rather than mitigating it; (B) Sustainable transformations are non-linear, complex processes that unfold in liminal spaces of negotiation and resistance; and (C) Decolonizing academic practices requires centering marginalized onto-epistemologies, embracing the cosmovisions of IoTCs, and reconfiguring power relations in knowledge production toward an emancipatory praxis. These findings shows that sustainable transformations are non-linear, unfolding in liminal spaces where IoTCs’ practices of care, resistance, and communal belonging and involvement actively shape alternatives and ancestral futures. This thesis does not seek to replace one paradigm with another but to expand the possibilities of knowing, doing, and being, by embracing a research praxis that is relational, embodied, and dialogical, where knowledge is not only co-created, but co-lived. Ultimately, this work is an invitation to reimagine and re-inhabited sustainability not as a fixed outcome but as a continuous weaving of worlds rooted in justice, dignity, and interdependence—a pluriversal becoming. |
