Urban Indigenous Territory: A Path to Social-environmental Justice

The event “Urban Indigenous Territory: A Pathway to Socio-Environmental Justice” focuses on recognizing the rights of Indigenous peoples in urban contexts—access to land, dignified housing, cultural preservation, and the fight against socio-environmental inequalities. Held in a roundtable format, it will provide a horizontal space for listening, knowledge exchange, and collective narrative-building, led by Indigenous leaders, researchers, social movements, and institutional actors. The approach prioritizes dialogue and the lived experience of urban Indigenous peoples, aiming to highlight challenges and strategies of resistance and re-existence in the face of exclusionary urbanization. The proposal connects directly to the theme of Urban Circuit 2025 by making visible a dimension often rendered invisible in urban policies: the Indigenous presence in cities and their right to territory. It also aligns with the topic “Rehabilitation of Urban Inequalities” by fostering critical reflection on coloniality in cities and public policies, challenging hegemonic planning paradigms that marginalize Indigenous populations. It seeks to be both a pedagogical and political action, denouncing racial, territorial, and environmental inequalities, while promoting an urban re-education centered on socio-environmental justice, collective rights, and the appreciation of cultural diversity.