Season 03 Ep 05: Ayelen

In this episode, Ayelén Amigo joins us to explore coloniality of age, a concept that she created during her studies and shares practical tools for decolonisation projects with children. Applying her extensive academic training and years of participatory work with children and adolescents in Argentina and Mexico, Ayelén shares how adult-centrism and patriarchy shape childhood experiences. Focusing on the integration of feminist perspectives and on the use of the "pedagogy of tenderness", Ayelén offers valuable insights into creating more inclusive and equitable approaches to youth work.

The transcript is here.

Sources:

• Linde, R., The globalization of childhood: The international diffusion of norms and law against the child death penalty.
• Nxumalo, F., & Cedillo, S., Decolonizing place in early childhood studies: Thinking with Indigenous onto-epistemologies and Black feminist geographies.
• Elizabeth A. Faulkner and Conrad Nyamutata, The Decolonisation of Children’s Rights and the Colonial Contours of the Convention on the Rights of the Child