Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: What is democracy? What is being indigenous?

Talk at the PARLIAMENT OF WOMEN organized by Mujeres Creando (www.mujerescrea...) and recorded in Bolivia,on November 12, 2019, by / producciones- Contra-Informa
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is an Aymara/Bolivian feminist, sociologist, historian, and subaltern theorist. She draws upon anarchist theory as well as Quechua and Aymara cosmologies. She is one of the best known "decolonial" thinkers in Latin America who contests the use of the term "decolonial." Cusicanqui has written extensively in Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara, often moving between the three languages within a single text. Cusicanqui sees capitalism and consumerism as the modern chains of oppression and hopes to be a catalyst for decolonizing and liberating people from these systems’ domination.
Some of her best-known works include Oppressed But Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Quechua in Bolivia, 1900-1980 (Geneva: UNRISD, 1984), Ch'ixinakax Utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization and The politics and ideology of the Colombian peasant movement: the case of ANUC (National Association of Peasant Smallholders).