Marisol de la Cadena

Marisol de la Cadena is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, specializing in political ontology and indigenous knowledge systems. Her research examines intersections between modern political frameworks and indigenous cosmologies, particularly in Andean communities. She investigates how earth-beings and non-human entities participate in social and political formations that challenge conventional historical narratives.

Her ethnographic approach centers on collaborative knowledge production with Quechua-speaking communities in Peru, exploring concepts of:

• Co-existence of multiple ontological frameworks
• Non-human political agency
• Decolonial epistemologies
• Historical and ahistorical temporalities