Ana María Noguera, new GenTIC postdoctoral researcher.

Ana Maria Noguera Durán, an expert in feminism and indigenous peoples and a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) postdoctoral researcher at GenTIC, is leading INDIWOMINT, a project about the connection and knowledge of Amazonian indigenous communities with nature.

Ana Maria Noguera Durán holds a PhD in Education and Cultural Studies from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. She has an academic background in performance and gender studies, with a focus on the resistance efforts of women who survived the war in Colombia. In addition, she has explored the evolution of social movements in Abya Yala (name of the American territory before European colonization) aimed at defending indigenous peoples, their lands, and territories.

The Indigenous Women Interconnecting Knowledge: Bodies, Territories and Technologies for Life (INDIWOMINT) project aims to learn from Amazonian indigenous technologies and, in alliance with Western innovations, propose sustainable development and climate change mitigation strategies. The project also examines how, in the face of current climate and social crises, redefining evidence-based knowledge can be pivotal for a decolonial shift in the production and dissemination of knowledge for preserving life.

In a recent interview with UOC News, Ana Maria Noguera Durán outlined the objectives of the INDIWOMINT project and how she will develop an interdisciplinary, ecofeminist and decolonial participatory research methodology to generate new knowledge about sensitive, critical and responsible research practices, working with indigenous women’s communities.

The researcher aims to influence public policies to strengthen indigenous women’s organizations and their efforts to combat climate change. A key goal of the project is to create an online guide featuring dynamic methodologies for indigenous researchers and policymakers, focusing on indigenous women’s movements and decolonial ecofeminism.

Read the full interview with Ana María Noguera Durán in UOC news here.