My research interests primarily revolve around understanding how colonialism and coloniality "rupture" our collective capacity to communicate in the world (both the world of humans and the-more-than-human), and how this rupturing affects kinship and personhood. The crux of my book project is the development of an account of "hermeneutic illness".

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My definition of Hermeneutic Illness (HI)  is as follows:
"A malignant state induced by the colonial imposition of irrelationality through the violent enforcing of hegemonic ways of knowing and being in the world which limit the capacity to interpret experiences and relationships and communicate about/with/and across experiences and  relationships. This state consequently leads to a limitation in the kinds of interpretive knowledge of relations, and indeed the relationships and experiences themselves, that are seen as possible to exist--"

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As an interdisciplinary scholar concerned with the entire geographical region of "the Americas" , I work with Indigenous Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, Critical Black Studies, and Caribbean Philosophy.

All that said, below are my main philosophical "buckets".

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