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Lunes, Agosto 11, 2025

From June 23 to 28, grassroots leaders, researchers, and advocates from across the globe—from Colombia to Mongolia, Zimbabwe to Palestine—gathered in Bangkok for Reclaiming Our Stories, Shaping Our Futures, a week-long meeting of two powerful ESCR-Net initiatives: Community-Led Research (CLR) on Loss and Damage caused by climate change, and Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) on care-centered economies.

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Rooted in lived experience, ancestral knowledge, and political struggle, participants used this space to exchange methodologies, strengthen solidarity, and shape strategies for climate, economic, and gender justice.

The first two days focused on Loss and Damage, with CLR partners reclaiming the narrative and defining it in their own terms. In their collective People’s Declaration, they stated:

We are facing diverse losses due to climate injustice, colonial legacies and systems of capitalism. We are facing the corporate capture and privatisation of our waters and lands, the impacts of droughts and loss of our crops and livestock. We have been displaced from our territories, forced to lose our traditions, losing lives and our ancestral knowledge and wisdom.

Through storytelling, shared analysis, and a gallery of research findings, they identified the root causes of harm and the pathways toward justice. As the Declaration continues:

In the face of this injustice, we demand accountability of power holders, transparency, non-repetition of injustice, reparation and compensation for these harms, participation of communities in decision-making, and to have real and meaningful visibility for our peoples so that we can enjoy our collective rights.
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On the third day, CLR and FPAR participants joined in a Wisdom Circle to bridge struggles and reflect on how community-led and feminist research can be a tool of resistance, healing, and transformation. Stories from across continents revealed the political power of research that starts and ends with communities, building hope and solidarity across borders.

The final three days centered on the new FPAR cohort, which is launching an 18-month journey to reframe the economy around care, solidarity, and sustainability. Using creative and participatory tools such as body mapping, embroidery storytelling, and power mapping, participants grounded their research designs in feminist and decolonial principles. By the end of the week, participants had strengthened a global community of practice, produced the Declaration on Loss and Damage, co-designed feminist research processes for care-centered economies, and built strategies for joint advocacy. Across languages, regions, and struggles, one truth resonated: by reclaiming our narratives and rooting research in lived realities, communities are not just documenting injustice—they are shaping the futures they envision.

 

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