Royal Holloway, University of London

Post-Doc, Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Politics, Performance, Belonging

Other Affiliations: University of Sussex, Anthropology

Postdoctoral Researcher

Royal Holloway, University of London

About

Genner Llanes-Ortiz is a Mayan anthropologist from Ticul, Yucatan, Mexico. He obtained his first degree at the University of Yucatan, and completed a DPhil in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. He has been the recipient of the International Fellowship Programme (IFP) scholarship by the Ford Foundation, and has also been funded by the Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT).
His main interests are related to ethno-political movements, intercultural dialogue, and subaltern epistemologies. He has conducted research on the transformational work of NGOs and Indigenous organisations in the Yucatan Peninsula. His work has been concerned with forms of representing Indigenous knowledge in intercultural education projects in Latin America, especially in Ecuador and Mexico. In this he has underlined the way cultures of schooling continue to sideline local learning practices and epistemologies.
As a Postdoctoral Researcher he will be looking at the strategic transformations of ritual and performance in the political mobilisation of Mayan heritage for greater social justice and recognition. He is interested in exploring how these renewed performances of indigeneity are affecting the ways people think about their own identities and cultures in the region. He wants to identify, as well, the main strategies and influences that render these performances meaningful and appealing to different audiences, and how they are re-appropriated and/or contested by competing social actors.
He keeps a multi-lingual blog on Mayan voices and interculturality at: http://tsikbaloob.blogspot.com

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