Founding Director of the Andean Oral History Workshop, she is a leading scholar of postcolonialtiy and indigeneity in the Andes. She published the classic, Oppressed but Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Quechua in Bolivia, 1910-1980, and numerous essays on subaltern critiques of neoliberalism. A Professor of Sociology a the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in La Paz, she has lectured widely throughout the hemisphere.
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui proposes a novel approach to decolonizing Practices. "Sociology of the Image" refers to a new teaching and research methodology developed at the University of La Paz, focused on bilingual Aymara students' daily experiences at the university and at home, and the historical memories of their families. The goal is to guide them to pertinent sociological and political research and action, to overcome the ventriloquist quality of the social sciences, and to develop a more autonomous relation with the Euro-North American conceptual world. The lecture incorporates film and still images designed to challenge inherited knowledge and produce an alternative view of colonial iconography and popular religiosity.

Additional support for this visit from: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Geography, Department of History, Department of Media and Cinema Studies, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese

Decolonization, Indigenous Struggles and Visuality in the Andes 

Additional public events with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui include: