ABSTRACT
In the 1970s, indigenous peoples gained conceptual recognition as environmental figures in various national and transnational environmental discourses, representations and governmental policies. However, it is in the last decade that ecological natives have gained practical recognition by assuming leading roles in national and transnational contexts as environmental and political agents (as we have seen in the previous chapters). Representations of ecological natives have become important to the political strategies of both indigenous and environmental movements; and it is the way that each movement uses representations of the ecological native that generates the understandings and misunderstandings that affect the possibility of practical cooperation between them and the effective realization of their goals within the context of global eco-governmentality.
