Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, 2011

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (born December 9, 1949 in La Paz ) is a Bolivian sociologist , historian , feminist and theorist of subalternity .

Cusicanqui is a professor emeritus at the University Mayor de San Andrés . It is based on anarchist theory and in Quechua (the people) - and Aymara - cosmology . She was director and is a long-time member of the Taller de historia oral andina . As an activist, she supports the Qatarist and coca farmer movements. Her best known work is Oppressed But Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Quechua in Bolivia, 1900-1980 .

Works (selection)

• Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. 2018. Ch'ixinakax utxiwa: A reflection on the practices and discourses of decolonization . Unrast publishing house.
• Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. 1984. Oppressed But Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Quechua in Bolivia, 1900-1980 (Oprimidos pero no Derrotados: la Lucha Campesina Entre los Aimaras y Quechuas en Bolivia). Ginebra: UNRISD.

Web links

• Literature by and about Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: 'Lo indio es parte de la modernidad, no es una tradición estancada'. Report on a guest lecture at the Universidad de Chile .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Short biography on Blackwell Reference Online .
2. ↑ Anarchism and Indigenous Resistance in Bolivia: Interview with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (English) Upside Down World Times. Retrieved April 11, 2013.