Andrea Chamorro was a guest on the Mundaréu podcast, hosted by Daniela Manica (State University of Campinas, Brazil) and María Sol Anigstein (University of Chile), for this new season called “Mundaréu in Chile.” The conversation focuses on the progress made in Chile eight years after the feminist movement of May.

The creators of the space ask, “What has happened to universities after this wave of social transformation? How are female professors and anthropologists acting from their research positions, and from a feminist perspective?” In addition to the CMUS researcher, the following were also interviewed: Menara Guizardi, Carolina Stefoni, Herminia González Torralbo, Esteban Nasal Moreno, Natalia Marroquín Sánchez, Eleonora López Contreras, Anabel Sepúlveda Matus, Maria Sol Anigstein, Ingrid Echeverría Huequelef, and Doris Aguilera Santos.

Activating Territories in the Andean Foothills is the latest episode dedicated to our country and premiered this Wednesday, June 24th. In it, we meet Doris Aguilera, a resident of Belén, a historic Aymara town. She tells us about her history, her hardworking, activist, and feminist lineage. CMUS’s lead researcher, Andrea Chamorro, discusses her ethnographic and personal work with this community, providing a historical, geographical, and anthropological context. Together, they construct a narrative about the extractivism, prejudices, and injustices to which the northern region has been exposed and how it has fought to defend itself.

Andrea Chamorro recounts one of their shared experiences: “As part of a project to recover historical memory related to the Inca Trail and pre-Hispanic sites, we brought a group of second-year social anthropology students and stayed overnight here at a rural cultural center, which is a former community school. They provided us with lodging and meals. We organized a hike with Doris so we could meet at a point along the trail and also visit an astronomical observatory with Inca influences. There, we held a shared ceremony with community members and students, bringing along a group of people from different Indigenous communities, and then we continued hiking along different routes. It was a very enriching experience in terms of intercultural exchange and scientific outreach.”

Listen to the full chapter at this link.

This episode dedicated to Chile is a continuation of the Mundaréu in Colombia and Mundaréu in Argentina series, which were published in previous years. The next stop will be Peru.