Magdalena Suárez Pomar

Magdalena Suárez Pomar is broadly interested in the inter-American collaboration networks that were formed in the years prior to the emergence of indigenismo in the Andean region in the early 20th century. Her interest focuses on the networks of literate socialization and collaboration that indigenistas intellectuals built, the solutions they proposed for integrating the “Indian” into the national imaginary, and the transnational propaganda networks they created through editorial projects. Her research involves interdisciplinary work that combines history, literature, social sciences and politics to understand how intellectuals participated in the public sphere around the indigenous question. Suárez Pomar have recorded, written and published the testimony of Maxima Acuña, an indigenous and rural campesina woman who won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2016. Máxima Acuña became an outspoken opponent of a project, known as the Conga mine, in the northern Peruvian highlands of Cajamarca. Working on this testimonial allowed her to articulate her interest in Testimonial literature, as an advocate for the voices of ethnic minorities in Peru.