Ozzy,+Amber,+Thorn

AFF research reports

--regime credibility (close election) --no relations/desperate – cult of personality only reason econ was working. New leaders will be multilateral. China won’t step in (BDC already => mismanaged funds $, they also want reductions of social programs) --“economic engagement” – deliberately expanding economic ties with an adversary & effect an improvement in bilateral relations -- OIL: crude oil dwindling. “V relies on the US…not sustainable…significant changes”; dutch disease

GENEALOGIES - Grassroots activist stories. - //People’s History: what ppl, whose history, reconnection with the masses…// - Grampa’s stories - University in the jungle – mix of western and indigenous knowledges. Oral traditions/legal education etc. EPISTEMOLOGY/DECOLONIZE - Solvency on storytelling .. in the context of indigenous peoples. - Decolonize knowledge. Tawanation. Educating themselves w/o the restraints of white supremacy thought and neoliberal thought. Inca empire, learning their language again. - Difference between communal and common – story of their difference/ western thought and communal thought. Harmonize social and economic. NEOLIBERALISM - The high cost of neoliberalism: loss of sovereignty – specific to latin America. Chomsky - L.A. democracy, a poll on countries who have accepted democracy. Rel. to economy. Innovation. - The politics of market reform (argentina, peru, Venezuela)

Genealogies - Blaize and Troy Epistemology of neoliberalism - Ayan, Tiana, AJ Neoliberalism in Latin America - Dwight, Ian, Nouang