This ONLINE WORKSHOP in ENGLISH explores collective auto-narrative, situated knowledges, and relational research methods. Participants will co-create tools to reimagine research as care, relationship, and collective praxis.
IT IS TIME TO CENTER COLLECTIVE THOUGHT AND PRACTICE IN RESEARCH
This workshop addresses two principal discrepancies that arise in the creation of scholar/activist knowledge with indigenous, rural and organized urban communities that seek to create a decolonial research methodologies. Through participatory practices of knowledge exchange we will first work to incorporate collective forms of knowledge creation drawing on the decision-making structures of community assemblies present in many rural and indigenous communities around the world and then, we will explore collective auto-narrative as a research method. In this process we will dismantle the construction and practice of situating knowledge in order to create collective positionalities that reflect the construction of the self within the collective contexts that we inhabit. By exploring collective forms of agency in knowledge creation we will delve into the multiplicitous protaganisms that conglomerate in creating praxis and have the potential to resist epistemicide.
Dates: November 17th – December 2nd, 2025
Time: All sessions are Mondays and Tuesdays:
• 9hrs to 11hrs, Mexico City Time,
• 16hrs-18hrs Central European Time,
• 20:30hrs-22:30hrs India Standard Time
Where? Online (Global Participation)
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About El Cambalache
El Cambalache (“The Exchange”) is a moneyless economy project that began in Chiapas in 2014 and was open to the public with a physical exchange space until June, 2023. Today El Cambalache works with communities around the world to decolonize the economy through exchange, mutual aid, research, and creative practice. Our work centers non-capitalist social power and collective well-being.
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