AlterNativa Intercanvi amb Pobles Indígenes
Institutional description
AlterNativa Intercanvi amb Pobles Indígenes (AIPI) is a Catalan association that has been working for 40 years to defend the rights and contributions of Indigenous Peoples, primarily in the Americas.
The accompaniment of all kinds of litigation and struggle processes, support for areas such as intercultural education, autonomous communication, and the defense of peoples’ right to self-determination, are understood according to a principle of exchange and reciprocity. The struggles, resistance, diagnoses, and solidarity deployed there make the return journey in the form of learning, proposals, research, and alternative models to strive for social transformation here.
Team members
Principal Investigator
Miquel Figueras Moreu holds a PhD in Ethnology and Social and Cultural Anthropology from the EHESS in Paris. He is the Research Coordinator for AlterNativa Intercanvi amb Pobles Indígenes, an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona UAB, and a member of the Research Group on Anthropology and the History of the Construction of Social and Political Identities (AHCISP). His field of study is Indigenous peoples and their political and symbolic relationship with their territory. He has alternated research and teaching with applied tasks such as land legalization processes, museography, and now, the defense of rights through applied research, film and communication, and epistemic diversity.
Support staff
Ferran Ventura
Economist
Ferran Ventura is an economist by training and has worked in economic consulting and auditing. He is currently the coordinator of alterNativa Intercanvi amb Pobles Indígenes, where he specializes in defending the rights of Indigenous Peoples and their contributions towards a more sustainable and more rational world. In the field of social economy, he has been a founding member of the Cooperativa Sinergia Social, creator of the Viver d’Empreses d’Economia Social de Manresa, among others, an advisor on the viability of cooperative projects, a professor at the Escola Agrària de Manresa on the viability of agroecological projects, and head of projects and manager of CIEMEN (International Escarré Centre for Ethnic Minorities and Nations).
Pablo Miranda Orrego
Psychologist
Pablo Miranda Orrego is a psychologist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, Postgraduate Diploma in Community Intervention, Universidad de Chile, a student in the Master’s program in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is completing his professional internship at AlterNativa Intercanvi amb Pobles Indígenes. He has a generalist educational background, which has allowed him to work in different areas of psychology and the social sciences, such as: Community, Educational, Clinical, and Organizational fields. This experience has led him to lead management and direction processes in multiple areas.