Decolonizing Popular Health Education: until the inclusion of indigenous visions for the promotion of culturally healthy and secured territories

Abstract

Even with the intention of developing healthy territories, community integration does not guarantee a decolonial attitude. How to live together in culturally safe territories, indigenous and non-indigenous, based on a horizontal relationship of cooperation? How to develop decolonizing practices of social and popular health education? An experiential critical-reflective essay presents itself to readers as an introspection exercise with an autobiographical horizon of the writer. Influenced by Brazilian experiences, the author revisits her territories (Canada) as a discovery. The objective is to systematize and problematize popular experiences in their relationship with the territory in order to visualize ways of creating healthy territories. Performance, as a corporal and kinesthetic epistemology (movement), is the method by which a person can move forward to better understand himself in the face of historically oppressive social dynamics and recapture the importance of those in teachings.