Description
CAMAMAZON is a collaborative project that follows the hosting of the UN climate change negotiations in the Amazon city of Belém in November 2025. It is motivated by a what if question, what if climate agreement-making reflected a system of many worlds, as exists in the world - in relation with and to one another - the critical difference being that no one system, world or cultural interest dominated collective arrangements? The aim of this paper is to present the collective ethnographic method developed to follow Indigenous peoples, youth, science and government mobilisation during this event. The central purpose of this collective methodology is to capture the rich multi-territorial relations that make up sites of global climate negotiations through the unique vantage points of each researcher within the team. This approach begins with the recognition that each of us as individual researchers has a deep personal relationship with and an emotional connection to the study of climate politics in the world. These personal journeys across territories include coming to terms with the land-people relations that we embody and accepting our own de-territorialised view and situation in and on the world. As such, the collective methodological approach aims to attune us to a collectively shared stake and to our individual understanding and relation to this. It is our unique personal insights and stories that point to the richness and diversity of territories that lie within and in relation to the territories of the world that have the potential to co-exist. Our project seeks to create the collective methodological structures that can seed and grow this uniqueness in each of us to contribute to the writing of a tapestry that offers a possibility of what the world can be, if we can collectively realise the political structures within which many worlds thrive.
