I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Gender and ICT research group at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. I currently lead the project Indigenous Women Interconnecting Knowledge: Bodies, Territories and Technologies for Life (INDIWOMINT), funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowship from the Horizon Europe programme (2023). The research focuses on indigenous epistemologies, territorial feminisms and relational ontologies, articulating situated, intersectional and decolonial research methodologies. It addresses both the natural and social dimensions of sustainability challenges in the face of global crises.
I am an interdisciplinary researcher with training in social sciences, arts, and environmental humanities. For more than a decade, I have been working alongside indigenous peoples of Abya Yala (Latin America), accompanying struggles for the defence of land and territory. I also have extensive experience in research based on participatory methodologies oriented towards political performance and activism with organisations of women victims and survivors of war in Colombia.
Currently, I collaborate with indigenous communities in the Amazon, developing research that values epistemic plurality and evidence-generating practices, centred on the situated knowledge of indigenous Amazonian women in response to the global climate crisis. My academic goal is to contribute to theoretical frameworks that recognise the political and cognitive power of ways of life in relation to nature and culture, fostering transnational alliances and inter-scientific dialogues for socio-environmental and planetary justice.
I am also a member of the Gender Diversity research group GENDIS/UERGS/CNPq (Brazil). I hold a PhD and MA in Education and Cultural Studies from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, as well as a BA in Performing Arts from the National Pedagogical University of Colombia. Between 2017 and 2022, I received a doctoral scholarship from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, Brazil). Between 2014 and 2016, I received a CAPES scholarship for an associated master’s degree at the same institution, with exclusive dedication to research on body and culture policies. I have been a visiting professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and a lecturer at the Minuto de Dios University in Colombia.
Contact
Email: anogueradu@uoc.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-3834-5878
Selected publications
Journal articles and conference proceedings
Noguera Durán, A. M. [Ana María]. (In press). Antígonas Court of Women: Archives, Repertoires and Poetic Memory of a Nation at War, Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/issue/view/4824
Noguera Durán, A. M. [Ana María]. (2025). Mujeres indígenas en resistencia: en defensa de sus cuerpos, territorios y saberes. In Actes del I Congrés Internacional ‘Vulnerabilitat Social i Violències Masclistes’ (135-142). Revista alimara. IMAS Departament de Benestar Social del Consell de Mallorca. https://www.revistaalimara.net/revista/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Llibre-actes_I_congresoviolenciamachista.pdf
Noguera Durán, A. M. [Ana María]. (2024). Yo parí un hijo para la vida y él me parió a mí para la lucha: Poéticas y performancias de resistencia de las antígonas colombianas en la guerra [Dei à luz um filho para a vida e ele me deu à luz para a luta: poètica e performance de resistència das antígonas colombianes na guerra]. Revista da FUNDARTE. Montenegro, 60(60): 1-25, e1356, 2024. – OPEN ACCESS – Link to full text
Noguera Durán, A. M. [Ana María], Sacchi dos Santos, L. H. [Luis Henrique], & Catañeda, A. [Alejandra]. (2022). Haciendo de los cuerpos prudentes formas de resistir: miedo y violencia en Colombia. Movimientos a partir de procesos en artes escénicas. TEXTURA – Revista de Educação e Letras, 24(57), 74-93. https://doi.org/10.29327/227811.24.57-4
Noguera Durán, A. M. [Ana María]. (2018). The Limited Experience of a Prudent Body. Transdisciplinary Ways to Analyze and Transform Violence and Conflict in Colombia. Southern Regional Scientific Meeting of ANPEd, XII ANPEd Sul. Education, Democracy and Social Justice, v. XII, 510-519. http://regionais.anped.org.br/sul2018/
Monographs
Noguera Durán, A. M. [Ana María]. (2022). “Yo Parí un Hijo para la Vida y el me Parió a mí para la Lucha”: Poetic and Pedagogical Elaborations of Pain and Resistance Through Performance [Doctoral Dissertation]. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/252125
Noguera Durán, A. M. [Ana María]. (2016). Cuerpos Prudentes y Otras Formas que la Vida Encuentra para Resistir: Las Artes Escénicas Como un Modo Problematizar Los Escenarios de Violencia en las Zonas de Conflicto en Colombia [Master’s Thesis]. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/147930
Noguera Durán, A. M. [Ana María]. (2013). Aportes para la lectura de la producción teatral como un ejercicio de memoria histórica, estudio de caso Kilele. Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12209/1255
Interview
2024, September 12. UOC News. “Indigenous people’s knowledge could be essential for mitigating the climate crisis”.