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Understanding the relationship between ourselves and the biological world is becoming ever more urgent and critical to addressing climate change. Multi-territorial methodology is a collaborative method that we are developing for a British Academy project that aims to centre climate agreement-making in the Amazon through study of Brazil’s presidency of COP30. The researcher’s reflections are a central pillar of the ethnographic method. However, the researcher’s mind as a territory with its own land relations that inform how climate politics are experienced and made sense of remains largely outside ethnographic reflection. In this paper, I begin to explore how explicit recognition of the territory of my mind through my research practice offers a unique way to bring a living world into knowledge of the negotiation room and challenges a politics that, at present, is failing to prevent dying worlds.
