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Karen Tucker discusses reproductive politics and decoloniality with the hosts of the Cuerpa Politica podcast

4 October 2021

Karen Tucker has been interviewed by the hosts of Cuerpa Politica about her work on the Quipu project, an innovative form of participatory research about forced sterilisation in Peru in the 1990s. The project gathered testimonies from forcibly sterilised Peruvians using a free phoneline, then shared them through the phoneline and an online interactive documentary. 

The discussion covers some of the methodological considerations of the Quipu project, the question of decoloniality in research methods design, and how to research non-verbal communication in contexts of reproductive violence. 

Cuerpa Politica is a podcast about reproductive health, politics and justice in Latin America, funded by the Institute of Latin American Studies and co-hosted by, Dr Rebecca Ogden, lecturer in Latin American studies at the University of Kent and Dr R. Sanchez-Rivera, Postdoctoral fellow in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. It explores reproduction in Latin America through a series of conversations with activists, practitioners, artists, and researchers working in many different contexts.

Further information

Interview link: ‎Cuerpa Politica: Participatory methods in reproductive violence research: spotlight on the Quipu project. With Dr Karen Tucker on Apple Podcasts

Link to Quipu project (interactive documentary): The Quipu Project (quipu-project.com)

Link to film about the project: Quipu: the phone line calling for justice in Peru – video | Peru | The Guardian

Cuerpa Politica link: ‎Cuerpa Politica on Apple Podcasts

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