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Postgraduate programs at Unicauca present a collection on Biocultural Studies at the CLACSO publishing house.

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The collection includes three volumes: "Epistemic Diversity and Bioculturality"; "Viruses, Uprisings, and Crisis: Readings on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Epistemologies of the Living Cosmos"; and "Minga for Peace, Well-being, and Non-violence."

 The postgraduate programs at the University of Cauca, the Doctorate in Ethnobiology and Biocultural Studies, together with the Master's in Interdisciplinary Development Studies, are launching the Biocultural Studies collection at CLACSO's publishing house.

 This was announced by Professor Bernardo Javier Tobar Quitiaquez, coordinator of the Master's in Interdisciplinary Development Studies, who stated that it is a collection comprising three volumes:

 "Epistemic Diversity and Bioculturality" by Olga Lucía Sanabria Diago and Javier Tobar, Editors.

 According to the professor, this book offers significant contributions concerning ethnosciences, worldviews, knowledge, and the use of biocultural diversity among different peoples of Latin America. "This volume addresses current environmental issues and the progress made in incorporating the rights of peoples and environmental justice into intellectual discourses, academic programs, and national and international agendas. These are the results of the struggles of peoples for the recognition of nature's rights."

 The book can be downloaded at the following LINK. (https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=2859&c=1)

 "Viruses, Uprisings, and Crisis: Readings on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the Epistemologies of the Living Cosmos" by Javier Tobar, Editor.

 This volume features researchers from different countries and presents various perspectives and theoretical and political responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, the book explores a new perspective: the epistemologies of the living cosmos as a critique of Western epistemology.

 LINK (https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=2858&c=1)

 "Minga for Peace, Well-being, and Non-violence" by Javier Tobar, Franco Andrés Criollo Gómez, and Adriana Patricia Bolaños Realpe, Editors.

 The texts in this book are the product of interventions that took place during the International Minga for Peace, Well-being, and Non-violence Encounter in June 2017 in Nariño, Colombia. The gathering brought together local, regional, national, and international agents interested in building a new culture of peace and strengthening civic coexistence.

 In general terms, this great "minga for life" aims to make visible experiences, research, and practices that allow us to delve into new forms of interpretation-participation that promote transformation towards new contexts of peace. It also highlights the resilience and organization of social groups for the construction of alternative worlds through culture, music, art, and the care of nature.

 LINK (https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=2857&c=1)