Runa Llakta: Indigenous Embodied Geography

This article proposes Runa llakta (people–community geography) as a sovereign practice within Indigenous embodied geographies. For us, Andean-Amazonian Indigenous warmiguna (women), embodied geographies bring decolonizing ends of land rematriation, self-determination, intergenerational healing, and Intercultural kawsana (presence). We offer killakina, an Indigenous method of embodiment, combined with geo-ethnography, to examine the Runa llakta as an embodied sociospatial notion and Intercultural practice to rebuild our buluguaya (sociospatial fabric), honor our warmiguna (women’s) force, and emplace our killaki (emotional geography). Bridging Northern and Southern critical literature on body-land with decolonial geographies, we aim to promote epistemological plurality in embodiment. Thus, our work challenges contemporary feminisms on land-based embodiments that are distant from our situated, cultural understandings of llakta (space-place), Runa shimi (language), llakiguna (emotions, affects, memories), and epistemological miray (descendance).