n this video, Prof. Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen explores key insights from their book project „Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes.“ Drawing on a qualitative approach termed „Activist Interpretive Protagonism“, the book examines how people of non-normative genders and sexualities in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia have resisted armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarianism. Through the discussion of selected instances of political artivism, Prof. Bueno-Hansen highlights how activists in the Andes are reimagining concepts like truth, peace, reparations, and justice. Their work challenges the dominant institutional, methodological, and epistemological frameworks of transitional justice (TJ), offering a powerful and necessary expansion of the field, which focuses on: solidarity, activist leadership and knowledge, as well as embodied collective memory.
