Carmen Cariño Decolonial Feminism and Community Mar 21, 2019

Carmen Cariño
Decolonial Feminism and Community

Thursday Mar 21, 12:45-2:10 pm
Room MS 162

San Diego City College
Social Justice Conference 

Carmen Cariño collaborates with the Latin American Feminist Study, Training and Action Group - Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudio, Formación y Acción Feminista  GLEFAS and has an amazing presence in the decolonization and feminist discussions in Mexico. Activist and scholar, Carmen was born and grew up in a peasant / Mixtec family (Mexico).

She is a Sociologist, MA in Rural Development at the University Metropolitana Iztapalapa in Mexico City and PhD in Anthropology. Currently she is a professor at University Metropolitana Azcapotzalco. She participates in collective spaces for indigenous and peasant women in defense of land and territory in Mexico. Carmen is part of the Zapatista movement and supported the presidential campaign of Marichuy from the National Indigenous Council.

Carmen also collaborates with the Memory and Justice Committee created demanding justice for Bety Cariño, Carmen´s sister who was brutally murdered by paramilitaries when she supported the community of San Juan Copala in Oaxaca. 

Main lines of research:

• Indigenous women and defense of the territory in Mexico and Latin America
• Decolonial thinking and feminisms
• Indigenous peoples and forced displacement

Among her most recent publications are:

“Colonialidad del saber y colonialidad del género en la construcción del conocimiento. Hacia epistemologías feministas otras y apuestas descoloniales” en Laura Raquel Valladares et.al. Antropología y feminismo. (UAM-I-CEAS) (En prensa).

(2016) “Pensar, sentir y hacer pedagogías feministas descoloniales. Diálogos y puntadas” en Pedagogías decoloniales. Pedagogías Decoloniales, prácticas insurgentes de resistir, (re) existir y (re) vivir.  Tomo II. Catherine Walsh (Coord.) Serie Pensamiento decolonial. Ecuador: Editorial Abya Yala. Pp. 509-536. ISBN: 978-9942-09-416-2.

(2014) “Jóvenes triquis. Participación política y defensa de la Autonomía” en Maya Lorena Pérez Ruiz y Laura Valladares de la Cruz (Coords.) Juventudes indígenas. De hip-hop y protesta social en América Latina. México, INAH. Pp. 287-310