Seminar: "When Practice becomes Theory - Methods for Collective Knowledge Creation through Decolonial Research", by Erin Araujo

Erin Araujo, PhD is a geographer specializing in decolonial feminist and anarchist diverse economies, will visit ICTA-UAB to give a seminar.   

Seminar: “When Practice becomes Theory - Methods for Collective Knowledge Creation through Decolonial Research”

Speaker: Erin Araujo, geographer specializing in decolonial feminist and anarchist diverse economies.

• Date: Thursday, March 13th, 2025
• Time: 14 - 16h
• Venue: Sala Montseny (Z/022 & Z/023) ICTA-UAB and online https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85691946230?pwd=x5ww18QI89bbDJpm3iCIyeduP6nJZM.1

Two principal discrepancies arise in the creation of scholar/activist knowledge with organized communities, urban or rural, that seek to pursue decolonial research methodologies. First, how to incorporate collective forms of knowledge, and second, how to advance towards the decolonisation of positionality while situating diverse forms of knowledge. Through participatory practices of knowledge exchange, we will explore the decision-making structures of community assemblies and subsequent practices from non-capitalist economies in regions with low access to money as a way to incorporate collective forms of knowledge. The methods and tools to be develop during this workshop come mainly from the experiences of Maya Indigenous communities from Chiapas, Mexico and other parts of Abya Yala (America Latina). This talk brings these together to be applied in other contexts when working with organized communities.

Erin Araujo, PhD is a geographer specializing in decolonial feminist and anarchist diverse economies. Originally from New York, USA. She has been living in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico since 2007. Erin is one of the founders and generators of El Cambalache, a moneyless micro-economy in San Cristobal de las Casas. She has published a number of articles and webinars as well as in-person and online workshops and gatherings. She is one of the founders of the Department of Decolonial Economics. Erin was a member of the editorial collective of the ACME Journal of Critical Geography between 2020-2022. She studies, practices and writes about moneyless economies and diverse epistemic persistence in the majority world of the Americas. Erin is currently working on a podcast called Memories of the Earth to recognize the importance and accessibility of oral history in the persistence of decolonial diverse economies throughout the Americas.