Project Title: Buen Vivir and Sumak Kawsay: Challenges and Possibilities in Rebuilding Alternative Worlds
Cristina Conesa Pla, London School of Economics and political science
Cristina Conesa Pla (she, her) is a third-year PhD candidate in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her thesis explores methodological questions about knowledge production and notions of difference, alterity, and diversity in proposals for alternative politics beyond Euro-American categories of thought. In her work, she focuses on how conceptions of indigeneity are constructed and deployed culturally and politically by insiders and outsiders; Andean politics focusing on Ecuador’s Buen Vivir / Sumak Kawsay and the proposal for an inter-cultural and plurinational state; and the politics of Indigenous resurgence more generally. She specializes in comparative political theory intersecting with cultural anthropology and indigenous studies.
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