University of the Andes (Bogotá, Colombia)
The University of the Andes is one of Colombia's leading universities. Through its Department of Political Science and Global Studies, it contributes academic expertise, research collaboration, and institutional support to the development of this project.
Principal Coordinator (Colombia)
Lina Álvarez Villarreal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Global Studies at the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She holds a PhD in Philosophy, and her research lies at the intersection of political theory, decolonial thought, Latin American feminisms, Afro-diasporic political thought, political ecology, and the politics of land. Her work focuses on questions of territory, race, justice, and alternative forms of collective life in Latin America. She explores how critical and decolonial thought contributes to understanding contemporary struggles around land, memory, care, and socioecological justice.
Lina is also part of the interdisciplinary initiative One Cauca River, Many Worlds, which studies the Upper Cauca bioregion through decolonial, pluriversal, and socioecological perspectives, foregrounding the relationships between territory, Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and peasant communities, ancestral knowledges, and more-than-human worlds.
As the project's Principal Coordinator in Colombia, Lina has contributed to its conceptual development and participated in the collaborative research gathering held at the University of the Andes in Bogotá. Her work has strengthened long-term partnerships with communities, social organizations, and researchers, contributing to the project's decolonial, participatory, and ethically engaged approach to collaborative knowledge production.
