LLC44: Andean-Amazonian Reading Group
About
Our main goal is to create a learning community passionate about Latin America and explore it beyond geopolitical boundaries. Our collective gravitates around the cultures, histories, and environments of the Andes and the Amazon.
Open to New People
Active since: 2025
- Cornell University
- Hamilton College
- Union College
Collaborative Goals
- To contribute to a more plural understanding of Latin America as a whole, where historically marginalized voices have been the object of study instead of a producer of knowledge on equal footing with Western scholarship.
- To create a space for a learning community, one that reaches scholars but also goes beyond the academic ecosystem across borders and disciplines, exchanges ideas and insights, shares research findings, cultural productions, and social initiatives.
- To promote an active dialogue between US based scholars and artistic, intellectual and pedagogical community-based initiatives in the Andes and the Amazon.
- To engage in meaningful non-hierarchical discussions that bridge the gap between disciplines, languages, and cultures.
- To foster a deeper understanding of the social, gender, cultural, political, historical, and ecological dynamics that shape the Andean-Amazonian region.
- To nurture a space to approach Latin American studies from a less Eurocentric and Western perspective.
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