Research Project
This research project aims to deepen the understanding of how nonviolent resistance is enacted in the Global South. The Minga Indígena in Colombia can illustrate this idea of resistance due to the wide repertoire of nonviolent claims and practices that they performed during the National Strike in Colombia (2019-2021). Thus, I acknowledge a strong relationship between indigenous people and the concept of territory, which is at the core of social mobilization in the country and addresses other ontologies. For that, I will analyse the following elements critically. First, how nonviolence is enacted in contexts of precarity and violence. Second, the many understandings of the concept of territory and its manifestations through the body. Third, how both concepts articulate nonviolent actions against precarity and violence. Whether the territory is represented as a body or the body as a territory, both categories reflect a political place with tensions, emotions, and therefore resistance against the existential threats Indigenous People face. 
 

 Research Interests
Civil resistance, civil disobedience, movements of society, decolonial and critical theory. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and bottom-up approaches.

Conference and Paper Presentation.
• Speaker on “Nonviolent Resistance and Body/Territory. The case of the Minga Indígena in Colombia.”at Congreso Jóvenes Investigadores 2024. “Debates en torno a la paz y la reconciliación social”. Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ). December 2024.

• Speaker on “Indigenous Resistance and Mobilisation: The case of the Minga in the National Strike in Colombia” at IV Jornadas de Estudios Latinoamericanos. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. February 2024.

•  Speaker on “Autonomous Political Subjectivity” at 1st Forum on Social Science Education 'Territory, Education and Social Transformations'. Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. August 2016.

Teaching
• I have experience in design, implementation, evaluation and systematization of social and pedagogical projects with young adults and children from communities in conflict.

• Furthermore, I have eyperience working as a Social Sciences Teacher in primary, basic, and high school.
 

Publications
• Sentires del Sur Global https://sentiresdelsurglobal.wordpress.com/