Jay Mistry
Jay is an environmental geographer and a potter. She has more than 25 years’ experience in teaching, researching and capacity building activities, with a particular focus on South America. Her research interests include environmental management and governance, participatory visual methods and Indigenous geographies. Her work involves supporting local livelihoods and biodiversity conservation, cultural fire management, action research using participatory video, crafting and Indigenous rights. She is interested in different types of knowledge, and how these can be brought together for more effective and socially just management and governance. Jay is also Professor of Environmental Geography at Royal Holloway University of London and Co-Director of the Leverhulme Wildfires Centre, UK.
Pronouns: She/her
The Latest from Jay Mistry
Working with communities on the Rights of Wetlands in Kenya
This week we've been working with Indigenous people and local communities i ...
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by Jay Mistry
Safeguarding craft materials
This craft materaisl directory is aimed at helping to safeguard the knowledge on ...
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by Jay Mistry
Crafting on World Indigenous Day
On World Indigenous Day today, we share a directory of crafts compiled through w ...
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by Jay Mistry
Sharing Indigenous crafting knowledge and skills
Throughout Guyana, Indigenous craft practices are on the decline. As part of our ...
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by Jay Mistry
Learn more about Indigenous crafting in Guyana
This short stop-motion video gives a quick overview of our 'Indigenous craf ...
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by Jay Mistry
Reflections on participatory video in Colombo
Community researchers in Colombo are currently exploring the challenges and best ...
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by Jay Mistry
Amerindian Heritage 2021
Celebrate the start of Amerindian Heritage Month in Guyana with this video from ...
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by Jay Mistry
Traditional knowledge for global biodiversity and development goals
On the 12th July 2021, we showcased the results and outputs of the Darwin Initia ...
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by Jay Mistry
Covid-19 impacts on Indigenous food sovereignty, livelihoods and biodiversity, Guyana - the findings
We present work in the form of a report from a Darwin Initiative Covid-19 Rapid ...
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by Jay Mistry
Ceramics, food and Indigenous identity
“Rekindling the Indigenous practice of pottery in Guyana. A collaborative ...
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by Jay Mistry
Darwin Traditional Knowledge project participates in global biodiversity consultations
The Second Global Thematic Dialogue for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities ...
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by Jay Mistry
Building capacity for improved inclusion of traditional knowledge
The Darwin Project in Guyana – “Integrating traditional knowledge in ...
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by Jay Mistry
Erasmus+ trainee Julia Jung joins the Collective
We are delighted to welcome Julia Jung who has just started a 6 month Erasmus+ t ...
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by Jay Mistry
Indigenous knowledge and conservation management
On the 9th April 2019, the project leader, Prof. Jay Mistry and co-leader Dr Lis ...
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by Jay Mistry
Using MAZI’s to stimulate discussions on traditional knowledge
We have been installing low-cost autonomous wifi zones (called MAZI) to create f ...
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by Jay Mistry
Training researchers in Venezuela
On the 7th November 2015, a one-day training course on Cobra’s community o ...
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by Jay Mistry
Taller en Caracas, Venezuela: ¿Cómo encontrar y compartir soluciones comunitarias propias?
Recientemente apoyamos desde la IBG-Venezuela/ACOANA la organización y ej ...
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by Jay Mistry
Community owned solutions for fire management in tropical forest and savanna ecosystems
This paper, available in English, Spanish and Portuguese, highlights how the com ...
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by Jay Mistry
Presentations to the scientific community of the Guiana Shield
We presented work on fire management, community owned solutions and peer-to-peer ...
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by Jay Mistry
Facilitating a dialogue on climate change in Venezuela
The project 'Facilitating a dialogue on climate change in Venezuela' a ...
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by Jay Mistry
Reviewing global action plans for traditional knowledge
Jennifer Rose, an intern at Royal Holloway University of London, spent January 2 ...
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by Jay Mistry
Progress towards greater recognition and integration of traditional knowledge in Guyana
This article talks about the Traditional Knowledge National Action Plan (TKNAP) ...
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by Jay Mistry
Documenting community owned solutions in the North Rupununi
In April and May, the NRDDB Darwin Team visited the North Rupununi villages asso ...
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by Jay Mistry
How Indigenous knowledge contributes to Mother Earth
Indigenous peoples around the world have set a pattern of caring for the Earth w ...
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by Jay Mistry
Looking Ahead: engaging the policy makers
The communities of the North Rupununi have captured their opinions through parti ...
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by Jay Mistry
International Day for Biodiversity (IDB) 2018
As we celebrate the world’s diverse variety of life, IDB 2018 is an oppor ...
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by Jay Mistry
First meeting of the Participatory and Intercultural Fire Management Network
Between the 8-11 July 2015, more than 60 Indigenous, institutional and academic ...
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by Jay Mistry
Kapoto at the start of the dry season
Kremkrem team met to map and record traditional and prescribed fires in June 201 ...
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by Jay Mistry
Project Kremkrem kicks-off in Brazil
In April 2014, partners of Project Kremkrem met in Aldeia Piaraçú, ...
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by Jay Mistry
Participatory video empowering Indigenous youth
Celebrating the United Nations International Youth Day - read our article in the ...
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by Jay Mistry
Screening community videos with policymakers
Over the past year, Indigenous communities in the protected areas of Guyana have ...
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by Jay Mistry
Photostory: Engaging Indigenous villages around the Kanuku Mountains Protected Area
This photostory gives you some insight into the recent journeys to some of the I ...
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by Jay Mistry
The integrating of traditional knowledge into national policy project continues to touch communities
Integrating Traditional Knowledge into National Policy and Practice is one-year ...
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by Jay Mistry
Masakanarî Village: The Unexpected
The Darwin field team recently visited the Wai Wai indigenous community of Masak ...
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by Jay Mistry
Review of traditional knowledge within Guyanese policy
This working paper presents a policy review method that has been developed to as ...
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by Jay Mistry
Community engagement in the North Rupununi, Guyana
This video shows the first phase of community engagement in the Darwin Initiativ ...
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by Jay Mistry
Voices of the communities
Between November 2017 and January 2018, the NRDDB Darwin Team visited four North ...
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by Jay Mistry
Traditional Knowledge in Guyana: Let's talk about Wetlands!
As we join the world in observing World Wetlands Day, let us reflect on the impo ...
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by Jay Mistry
Traditional knowledge challenges and community owned solutions
Building capacity was not the only activity the local North Rupununi District De ...
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by Jay Mistry
Building capacity in participatory video in the North Rupununi
Over the course of the last four weeks – 19th Nov to 16th Dec – the ...
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by Jay Mistry
Getting Creative
Claudia Nuzzo, participatory video expert from the Cobra Collective, joined the ...
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by Jay Mistry
Free, Prior and Informed Consent Process begins in the North Rupununi for COBRA 2.0
This article described the Free, Prior and Informed Consent process in Guyana fo ...
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by Jay Mistry
Darwin Introductory Video
This video was developed by the North Rupununi District Development Board (NRDDB ...
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by Jay Mistry
Developing a theory of change for traditional knowledge and conservation
The Darwin Initiative inception meeting took place on the 6th September 2017 at ...
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Darwin Initiative project launched in Guyana
British High Commission hosts launch of 'Integrating traditional knowledge ...
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by Jay Mistry
Protecting and promoting traditional knowledge on UN Indigenous Peoples Day
This article talks about the 10th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Right ...
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by Jay Mistry
Launch of Darwin Initiative project
Working in Guyana, this project will address Aichi Biodiversity Target 18, incor ...
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by Jay Mistry
Community owned solutions and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
This article discussed how the community owned solutions approach aligns with th ...
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by Jay Mistry
Why bridging traditional knowledge and environmental science matters
In the Collective, we endeavour to bridge Indigenous and Western science knowled ...
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by Jay Mistry
The power of participatory visual methods
The Collective uses the participatory visual approaches of Participatory Video a ...
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by Jay Mistry