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Elián Castellanos Ruíz

Anthropologist and Political Scientist

About their trajectory

Glacier caretaker and advocate. Anthropologist and political scientist, specializing in care policies with a gender-based approach, and currently pursuing a master’s degree in Political Ecology, with experience in consulting, project coordination and evaluation, and multidisciplinary research. Her work integrates research-creation, political ecology, and care from ontological perspectives and those of territorial organization and defense, in dialogue with rural communities and Indigenous peoples.
Her work has been oriented toward conceptualizing research as a pedagogical and unifying tool where communities and diverse languages reclaim a central role, articulating processes of community organization and territorial defense. In this context, methodologies such as sound, multispecies ethnography, poetry, illustration, and photoethnography serve as connecting threads for the encounter between the worlds we inhabit—with their tensions, conflicts, and the co-construction of the common.