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Renowned Latin American journalist, writer, and political analyst Raúl Zibechi talks about his latest book, Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America. Zibechi brings decades of work accompanying movements throughout the Americas, writing from and alongside communities in resistance. Zibechi will be in dialogue with the interdisciplinary scholar Jennifer S. Ponce de León, and George Quispe, translator of the book. This critical dialogue will explore hemispheric linkages while enriching our radical imagination.

Jennifer S. Ponce de León Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also faculty in Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALS) and Comparative Literature; affiliated faculty in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) and Cinema Studies

George Quispe Ygarza Translator, Popular Educator, and Mellon postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. George’s work has appeared on Truthout, NACLA, MondoWeiss and others. He holds a PhD in Global Studies.

Raúl Zibechi is a writer, popular educator, and journalist. He has published 20 books on social movements and writes for several Latin American media including La Jornada, Desinformémonos, Rebelión, and Correio da Cidadania