Reclaiming Silenced Voices Through Practices of Education and Environmental Popular Knowledge Production

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To reclaim silenced voices, we must identify the source of our silence, find our voice, construct our stories and share them with others. This paper is the story of a community who with the support of the researcher, endeavoured to peel back the layers of debris, which had muffled their voices. This constructed debris-social, physical, cultural and historical-served to reproduce the power of the "other" through processes of false consciousness. To alter this power relationship-to give a voice to the hitherto silenced-meant supporting the community to perceive themselves not as mere objects of their social conditions but the narrators of their own stories.