Abstract
ABSTRACTTerritorio and territorialidad are concepts particularly elucubrated and embraced by Indigenous and Afrodescendant communities in Latin America as central to their struggles and demands. In this essay, I approach the concept of territorialidad as a pragmatic and constitutive environmental communication to argue that territoriality opens up ways to interrogate space and place, translation, and identity. I based this argument on my research with Awá, binational Indigenous people living at the border between Ecuador and Colombia. As a decolonial option from the Global South, territoriality (1) counters Western narratives that privilege the global over the local; (2) offers novel ways to understand translation as both a communicative practice and a historicist inquiry; and, (3) furthers the notion of ecocultural identity.
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