What walks and who walks upon whom? My PhD project studies walking as a decolonial practice that can teach us to critically address the impact of extractivism on livability. Its trigger will be a series of physical and mental walks along Peruvian communities affected by the exploitation of gold, water, and petroleum, as well as walks through school textbooks depicting the territory. My objective is to develop creative processes that foster renewed awareness of the interplay between territory, multispecies sociality and learning that contests the repercussions of modernity in our lives.  

By combining artistic practices with collaborative, embodied and ethnographic methodologies, the project explores alternative ways of understanding land, resulting in “Emancipatory Chronicles”, a series of collective visual and written works documenting resistance, pride, and knowledge. Centered on Peru’s school curriculum, with this research I seek to address gaps in the relationship between extractivist discourses and education. The project also aims to influence educational policymakers, and environmental movements to rethink education in the context of global ecological violence.