Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (born 1949, in La Paz, Bolivia) is a contemporary Aymara mestiza feminist sociologist, historian, and subaltern theorist from Bolivia. She draws upon anarchist theory as well as Quechua and Aymara cosmologies. She is the previous director and longtime member of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina (Workshop on Andean Oral History). She is also an activist who works directly with indigenous movements in Bolivia, such as the Katarista movement and the coca growers movement.

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One of her best known works is Oppressed But Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Quechua in Bolivia, 1900–1980 (Geneva: UNRISD, 1984). Other notable works include Ch'ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization and The politics and ideology of the Colombian peasant movement: the case of ANUC (National Association of Peasant Smallholders).