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Dr. Cristina Burneo Salazar examines grassroot transnational movements supporting those whose mobility is impeded by Nation-State policies. By focusing on grassroots organizations that practice translation and hospitality as a form of social justice, Dr. Burneo Salazar explores practices of mutual aid that compel us to collectively reorganize life, dislodging it from logics of sedentarization—in the form of borders, linguistic normalization, or gender binarism—that currently threaten it. She argues that struggles against immobility animate everyday modes of protest taking place in local spaces across continents, in mixed languages, via non-binary sexual identities, and through grassroots practices—all exceeding the notion of “citizenship” and sparking plural belongings, transnational affection arrangements, and fluid identities.
About the Speaker:
Cristina Burneo Salazar lives and works in Quito, Ecuador. She is a writer, translator, and a professor-researcher at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. She is also co-founder of the activist collective Corredores Migratorios, centered in migrant justice. Her work focuses on bilingual literature, borders, and cultural studies from a feminist perspective. Her most recent book is titled Historias de desobediencia (Quito, Recodo Press 2022, free download in Spanish: www.desobediencia.net), a compilation of chronicles on femicide, reproductive rights, migration, and social protest, published in Ecuadorian and international media outlets between 2013 and 2021. She has also published Acrobacia del cuerpo bilingüe (Leiden, Almenara Press, 2017) on bilingual poets from the Andes.
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