Radical Methodologies in Contested Places: Approaching Decolonization in Central America -Regional Encounter and Workshop.

The encounter and workshop will open a space to bring together activist researchers from Central America and the Caribbean and facilitators/allies from other critical geographies. Together, we propose to enter into a dialogue for three and a half days around the question: How are people who find themselves at the juncture between research, action, and critical pedagogies to do “decolonial” or “decolonising” research in practice?

The event will be anchored in the experiences of participants from activist groups. In this way, it will make possible an in-depth reflection of our practices of activism and social research, as well as a revalorisation of our actions as processes of “decolonisation”. Our efforts are placed on the intellectual decolonization of ourselves as individual and collective beings, and of our practices. We aim to collectively develop innovative ways to approach individual and collective memories of our peoples and our struggles as part of such decolonization.