Life Reflections about (Postgraduate) Education with Four Mexican Indigenous Women: Dialogues and Remembrances

This research is a dialogue with four Mexican Indigenous women in relation to the barriers and opportunities they faced to achieve postgraduate degrees, and how they are appropriating the knowledge acquired through a conventional education in order to re-signify and re-position otherwise practices. It argues that the colonial structures embedded in social relations and institutional practices have limited their options, but also that the shifts derived from the crisis of modernity and the development project are opening some spaces. This is a journey for which dialogues and remembrances are the source of reflections about gender, race, class and education. The situated experiences and particular standpoint of the dialogantes helps to vanish the monolithic imaginary of the indigenous women by exposing their different stories, academic trajectories and profes-sional interest.