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CLACS Talk Series: Disordered Domestication: Colonial Logics of Wildness and Domestication in Cusco, Perú. Prof. Amanda  Cortez

Event Type

Lecture

Sponsor

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Location

Coble Hall 306

Date

Oct 27, 2025   3:00 pm  

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43

Originating Calendar

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

This talk presents a framework for understanding how state officials police the relationship between Quechua women and their animal companions in Cusco, Perú. Using disordered domestication as a framework, Dr. Cortez's research shows how local police officials reconfigure the status of both native and introduced Andean animals from domesticated to wild. They also reframe the city as a domestic space that must be kept safe from outsiders thus reifying stereotypes that Indigenous women are “at home” if they stay in their campo (countryside), but are invasive and wild when they are seen “out of place” in the city. Ultimately, disordered domestication reveals the ways that colonial logics continue to dictate daily life for Indigenous peoples in places like Cusco where colonial violence persists in new forms.