Desbaratando y (re)tejiendo telares in Espanglish: Experiencias de Abya Yala (so-called the Americas) desde Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand) y Naarm (Melbourne, so-called Australia)

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

Drawing on Anzaldúa’s concept of the "Nepantla" and everyday code-switching practices as in-between spaces, we operate within complex systems where Western and Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing are interconnected. This workshop facilitated in Espanglish (Español/English) invites participants/allies to be part of "círculo de la palabras/saberes/prácticas" (circle of the words/knowledges/practices), that centres Indigenous and Latin American pedagogical and creative practices while providing and sharing applied tools. Aimed at embarking on long-term pathways towards un/re/learning by personal and scholarly praxis through relational embodied collective knowledge making. This workshop uses storytelling objects (e.g. bastón de mando/molinillo), "parches" (patches) and other “soft” methods for sharing knowledges. The workshop is co-facilitated/co-created by a diverse team of undisciplined-scholar-practitioners representing transnational Latin American experiences across México, Cuba, Colombia, and El Salvador, based in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand) and Naarm (Melbourne, so-called Australia). We acknowledge the privilege inherent in our positions and the responsibility this brings to engage in our practices. Therefore, as ‘facilitadoras/aliadas’, our commitment is to integrate soul, heart, mind, and body in the process of decolonising research methodologies/teaching-learning/practices, weaving lived experiences and cultures in our ways of co-becoming.

Sub Track

• Migration, Diaspora, and Transnational Communities

Chair

• Diana Albarran Gonzalez, University of Auckland

Presenters

• Glenda G Mejía, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University)

• Desiree Ibinarriaga, Monash University

• Melisa Duque, Monash university

Session Organizer

• Diana Albarran Gonzalez, University of Auckland