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How Activists are Made: Indigenous Quechua Lives and Politics w/ Yojana Miraya Oscco
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Yojana Miraya Oscco is a Quechua scholar from the Andes of Peru and currently a Ph.D. student in political science at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on Andean politics, resource extraction, environmental justice, and rural livelihoods. Yojana is a Quechua language activist who has taught her native language at the University of Toronto and co-founded Kuskalla Abya Yala, an international non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the revitalization of South American native languages. Yojana is also a co-founder and co-host of the tri-lingual (Quechua, Spanish, and English) podcast Kuskalla.
In this episode with Yojana, we will discuss her lived experience as an Indigenous Quechua in the rural Peruvian Andes and her unique path to becoming a scholar and activist. We will also learn more about the history of Indigenous politics in Peru through Yojana's exciting scholarly work on Indigenous governance and Andean communal institutions.
Music: Anastasia Alexxeeva/Анастасия Алексеева - Djohogoj/Дьөһөгөй
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