Simone Ferrari

Simone Ferrari is a PhD student in Linguistic, Literary and intercultural Studies in European and Extra-European Perspectives at the University of Milan, in co-tutorship with Pontifical Xavierian University of Bogotá (doctorate in Social and Human Sciences). In 2017 he obtained a master’s degree in European and Extra-european Languages and Literatures at the University of Milan with a thesis about the narrative of violence in Colombia (110/110).

His research focuses on the written production of Indigenous Colombian thinkers in the contemporary age, with a particular focus on self-representation and construction of imaginaries and epistemologies of resistance in the Andean cultures. The provisional title of his doctoral thesis is: “Palabrandar to get a buen vivir: new imaginaries of resistance in Cauca Nasa.”

Other research interests are: oral memory as a form of identity reconstruction in Andean cultures; Linguistic Landscape as a form of resistance and cultural dignity in the urban and national peripheries; the processes of community resilience in Latin American metropolises.

He participated in several international congresses in Colombia and Italy. Among his papers under publication: “Between Emancipation and Capture: autonomization of the words and resistance to necropolitics in Nasa Territory (Colombia).” (Revista Campos en Ciencias Sociales, vol. 7, n. 2, Universidad Santo Tomás, en publicación en julio 2019).

Throughout 2014, he has worked as a teacher and organizator of social Projects in the center for underprivileged children “Sartén por el mango”, located in the Villa Miseria ‘Barrio Gonnet’ (Monte Chingolo, Argentina), within the “Subir al Sur” organization. Since 2016, he has been collaborating continuously with the community tourism project “Breaking Borders” of the Barrio Egipto in Bogotá (Colombia).