Project Title: Indigenous Autonomy amongst the Kichwa de Sarayaku
Robert Nichols, University of California, Santa Cruz
Robert Nichols is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work in social and political thought takes up questions of power, sovereignty, property, and historical consciousness, especially as they inform and animate struggles at the intersection of anti-capitalism and anti-colonialism.
Pablo Escudero Vasconez, University of California, Santa Cruz
Pablo Escudero Vasconez is a PhD student in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. His project explores the ways nation-building discourses in twentieth and twenty-first century Andean and Amazonian regions worked to justify internal colonialism in the name of modernization.
About the APSA Advancing Research Grants for Indigenous Politics Recipients