CALAS

Francisco Javier Mojica-Mendieta

PhD in the area of Communication, Culture and Social of the Doctorate in Scientific-Social Studies of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente - Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, Mexico (2009-2014). Thesis with honorable mention entitled: From/Coloniality of nature, Transnational mining in Crucitas and insurgents of border power-knowledge. M.A. and B.A. in Social Anthropology from the University of Costa Rica (UCR). Director - Editor of Trama, the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities of ITCR: http://revistas.tec.ac.cr/trama (2015- ). Documentary Photographer and Digital Photography Technician at the Technological Institute of Costa Rica (ITCR). Researcher, Professor and Extensionist of the School of Social Sciences of ITCR. Activist of social movements for human rights and nature. Academic Representative in the Research and Extension Council of the Vice Rector's Office of Research and Extension of ITCR, in 2015-2016 and 2021. Coordinator of the Commission of the Master in Local Economic Development (2020-2021), ITCR - Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences FLACSO Costa Rica. With publications on topics such as decolonial thinking; social movements; qualitative research, epistemology and power; ethnocide, vulnerability and unequal integration of migrant and indigenous populations; among others.

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