On 27 November 2023, Marina Cadaval Narezo successfully defended her thesis on Mexican Indigenous women's experiences and perspectives about how graduate education has informed their professional trajectories.
Her research aimed to promote a transformative and intercultural dialogue and offer pathways for feminist and decolonial methodologies and practices.
Her thesis had three further purposes:
- To expose how professional Indigenous women are political actors who are questioning historical colonial structures.
- To cultivate (collective) enfleshed knowledges and strengthen coalitions as strategies for resistance.
- To generate intercultural dialogues and dynamics that challenge conventional academic ways in critical development studies.
Interested in Marina's research?
Dowload her thesis, 'World'-travelling with professional indigenous women of Mexico: Collective weavings', from the ISS Library.
Rewatch Marina's defence introduction
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