<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">Dear Community and Colleagues,</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">Collectively Situated Knowledge</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">A Decolonial Research Method for Constructing Collective Auto-Narratives and Positionalities</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">Online Workshop | April 13th – May 5th, 2026 | In English</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">Mondays and Tuesdays, 8:00–10:00 Mexico City / 15:00–17:00 UK / 16:00–18:00 CET / 19:30–21:30 IST</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">This workshop focuses on the practice of decolonial / anti-colonial research. Over 8 sessions, participants will:</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">— Move beyond extractive academic research toward relational, community-based methodologies.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">— Explore auto-narrative and collective autoethnography as rigorous research methods, with guided writing practice.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">— Incorporate the community assembly as a structure for collective knowledge production and decision-making.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">— Develop collective positionalities that reflect the shared nature of the knowledge we produce.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">— Rethink value, exchange, and labor in research from a non-capitalist framework.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">— Build a research ethics grounded in communality, persistence, and resistance to epistemicide.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">The workshop is facilitated by:</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">Together, they bring scholarship, lived experience, and collective practice into a single methodological space.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">This workshop is for researchers, activists, and community practitioners who are ready to develop new ways of creating knowledge, together.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">Sliding scale fees: USD $80–$600 / MXN $800–$5,000</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">Moneyless exchange options available for those who cannot cover any fee.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">Space is limited. Payment deadline: April 10th, 2026.</span><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">Questions: </span><a href="mailto:cambalach@autoproduzioni.net" style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">cambalach@autoproduzioni.net</a><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">Please share this with students, colleagues, and networks who are doing the work of building knowledge differently.</span><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">For the full description including how to apply please click here: </div><a href="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/">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/</a><div><font face="Optima-Regular"></font></div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">To apply (1,000-word motivation letter required):<br><a href="https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/9sxrFz2ZiLbLttWb43oy9tnb">https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/9sxrFz2ZiLbLttWb43oy9tnb</a></div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">Warmly,</div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular;">Erin</div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Optima-Regular;"><br></div><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Erin Araujo PhD<br><br>she/her/ella<br>Generator<br>Department of Decolonial Economics<br>El Cambalache,<br>Calle de los Arcos 5c<br>Barrio Cuxtitali<br>San Cristobal de las Casas<br>Chiapas, Mexico 29230</div><div><br></div><div><br>Academia.edu: independent.academia.edu/erinaraujo<br>El Cambalache FB: www.facebook.com/lacambalache<br>El Cambalache Blog: https://cambalache.noblogs.org<br>El Cambalache Canal de Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCslgLGj8V0LFxSaDnL8iYQg <br>Twitter: LaCambalachera <br>Instagram: Elcambalachesancristobal<br>Tiktok: @cambalacheras</div></div></div>
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