We have a faculty network committed to give support to academic exchanges and local experiences in Abya Yala to counter the erasure of Indigenous and Black knowledges in the academe.
We support the formation of Countercolonial Bowls and their Confluence in Abya Yala to reframe science and technology beyond western thinking.
We are structuring a library centered on the knowledges of Indigenous and Quilombola peoples curated by the communities to increase the representation of other knowledges in academia.
The Abya Yala Pluriversity (Pluriversidad•e Abya Yala) is a network of Indigenous universities and traditional universities in Abya Yala (the Americas) that aim to counterpoint epistemic erasures in academia by supporting the circulation of Indigenous people and knowledges in the affiliated institutions, as well as Black people and knowledges that honor the alliances between Indigenous and Black people against settler colonialism and the history of bodies and territories of resistance in villages (aldeias, aldeas), cumbes, palenques, quilombos, etc., and urban territories.
The Abya Yala Pluriversity is founded on the principle of a pluriversal world, where the respect and recognition of plural ways of knowing and being guide our activities.
For that, it is also based on the principles of interconnectedness and autonomy.
Yunuen Torres is a P’urhépecha woman from Cherán, Michoacán in Mexico. From a young age, she has been involved in...
Is an event that is being planned to happen in the Amazon region that aims to be an infrastructure of knowledge to explore the notion of pluriversality, counter-, de- and anticoloniality as foundations for a science and technology project in Abya Yala.
Do you want to know more and be part of it? These are the people who are already part of Pluriversity and can be contacted, then, you can find out more about the Initiative, talk about ideas and projects.
(Originally written in Spanish) I am Yunuen Torres Ascencio, a P’urhépecha woman who has lived the defense of the territory from the core. I come
The Abya Yala Pluriversity was launched in the first week of April 2024, with the Abya Yala Pluriversity Week in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, in the lands of Tutelo and Monacan people, with a series of events around the visit of Yunuen Torres Ascencio, from where we call today Cherán, México.
This initiative has received the support of the Social Science Research Council Just Tech Fellowship, with funds of the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Surdna Foundation, and Democracy Fund.
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