Sociologist with a focus on the political processes of Afro-descendant women in the popular economies of the Colombian Pacific
Sociologist from the University of Buenos Aires. She is currently a doctoral fellow in the PhD Program in Politics and Communication at the University of Salerno (Italy), in co-tutelle with the PhD Program in Human and Social Sciences at the National University of Colombia. Her research focuses on the political processes of Afro-descendant women in the popular economies of the Colombian Pacific, specifically those linked to cooking, the cultivation of aromatic, medicinal, and food plants, and fishing, in dialogue with feminist and Latin American political ecology perspectives. She analyzes the relationship between capitalist accumulation, expanded extractivism, socio-environmental conflicts, and colonialism. She holds a specialization in Epistemologies of the South. She has both professional and activist experience in human rights, artistic, and feminist projects in Colombia and Argentina. She has worked as an instructor in the Prison Extension Program at the University of Buenos Aires, with incarcerated women pursuing higher education in penitentiary institutions. For more than five years, she was part of the feminist collective Revista Amazonas. She collaborates with international independent media. As of this year, she is a member of the CLACSO Working Group on Food Sovereignty.
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Academia.edu: https://unisa.academia.edu/NataliaHern%C3%A1ndezFajardo
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