[Cc-communications] 3 Spaces Left- Online Workshop on Collectively Situated Knowledge Beginning in April

[Erin Araujo]

Dear Community and Colleagues,

I’m writing to share that we have 3 spots left in our upcoming workshop. We are living through a moment in which knowledge itself is under attack. The defunding of research, the silencing of dissent in academia, the ongoing erasure of indigenous and majority world epistemologies; all of this makes the question of how we produce knowledge not just methodological, but political and urgent.


Collectively Situated Knowledge
A Decolonial Research Method for Constructing Collective Auto-Narratives and Positionalities

Online Workshop | April 13th – May 5th, 2026 | In English
Mondays and Tuesdays, 8:00–10:00 Mexico City / 15:00–17:00 UK / 16:00–18:00 CET / 19:30–21:30 IST

This workshop focuses on the practice of decolonial / anti-colonial research. Over 8 sessions, participants will:

— Move beyond extractive academic research toward relational, community-based methodologies.
— Explore auto-narrative and collective autoethnography as rigorous research methods, with guided writing practice.
— Incorporate the community assembly as a structure for collective knowledge production and decision-making.
— Develop collective positionalities that reflect the shared nature of the knowledge we produce.
— Rethink value, exchange, and labor in research from a non-capitalist framework.
— Build a research ethics grounded in communality, persistence, and resistance to epistemicide.

The workshop is facilitated by:

Dr. Erin Araujo — Economic geographer with a focus on decolonial feminist economic systems, co-founder of El Cambalache. Based in San Cristóbal de las Casas since 2007, she has spent nearly two decades studying and practicing moneyless economies in the majority world Americas.

Abíodún Abdul — Academic English Skills Lecturer, Critical Creative Doctoral Researcher, UNESCO Global Poetry Slam Champion 2022, and founder of Global Majority Writers. Her autoethnographical work centers race, family and multiculturalism across Nigeria, Britain and Japan.

Together, they bring scholarship, lived experience, and collective practice into a single methodological space.

This workshop is for researchers, activists, and community practitioners who are ready to develop new ways of creating knowledge, together.

Sliding scale fees: USD $80–$600 / MXN $800–$5,000
Moneyless exchange options available for those who cannot cover any fee.
Space is limited. Payment deadline: April 10th, 2026.


Questions: cambalach at autoproduzioni.net <mailto:cambalach at autoproduzioni.net>

Please share this with students, colleagues, and networks who are doing the work of building knowledge differently.

For the full description including how to apply please click here: 
https://cambalache.noblogs.org/post/2026/02/24/april-2026-online-workshop-collectively-situated-knowledge-a-decolonial-research-method-for-constructing-collective-auto-narratives-and-positionalities/

To apply (1,000-word motivation letter required):
https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/9sxrFz2ZiLbLttWb43oy9tnb

Warmly,
Erin



Erin Araujo PhD

she/her/ella
Generator
Department of Decolonial Economics
El Cambalache,
Calle de los Arcos 5c
Barrio Cuxtitali
San Cristobal de las Casas
Chiapas, Mexico 29230


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