Civic Engagement and the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon

Dr Ornette D Clennon (Visiting Professor of the Federal University of the Amazon) and Professor Lawthom (MMU) are currently working with Dr Cláudia Sampaio  (Federal University of the Amazon) on a Federal University of the Amazon funded research project that will examine how participative arts methodologies that use performative social science research, decolonial community psychology and critical race studies can facilitate processes of civic engagement for indigenous rural communities living in the Amazon area.

For more details, here.

Linked to Research: Project Mali, Manchester

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