Chasing Encounters

Yojana from the Andes in Peru teaches us how foreign names clash Indigenous ways of naming children and how people are accepting modernity in contemporary Peru. She describes how the Quechua language has been forbidden in some schools and the society bringing discrimination and exploitation of Indigenous women while living in the city. She shares her stories of struggle and survival with her family and the community as being an important conduit for resilience in times of scarcity. She finally helps us question who education is for and how the system streams the most marginalized peoples to trade education putting them at the margins of society. Her research is related to how indigenous communities are organized to counter mining companies that rapidly change the Andean ecosystem and how this is affecting the new generations of children who reject their own Indigenous cultures and languages by dropping out of high school because they want to work for the corporations as they are motivated to earn money. Bio