Event Details

The CLAS-Andean Studies Working Group-Lecture Series invites you to: "Amazonizing” the World: Visual Narratives of Indigenous Cosmovisions in Urban Spaces by Katia Yoza-Mitsuishi on January 23 at 11:00 am (AB-5191).

Katia Yoza-Mitsuishi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Spanish and Portuguese department and a University and Louis Bevier fellow. She is currently finishing her dissertation, which focuses on Amazonian textual and visual narratives of indigenous cosmovisions involving urban, public, and global audiences. She has a MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Paris IV–Sorbonne and a BA in Hispanic Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

This is a practice job talk on a part of Katia’s dissertation, which draws attention to the narratives, art, and discourses that convey the innovative socio-ecological resilience of Amazonian indigenous peoples, whose territorial and cultural rights have been threatened by transnational, national, and even local extractivism, supported by the State and rationalized according to a colonial, patriarchal and capitalist logic. Today, the cosmologies of the indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon are being transmitted in new and original formats to younger generations and to the general public–national and international–in alliance with non-indigenous actors from the Amazon and beyond. The variety of forms that the narratives take gives voice to different strategies of social-ecological resilience and attempts to reach wider audiences and engage them in that resilience. These materials also illustrate how cultural preservation and land rights advocacy are intertwined.

The event is free and open to the public.