Eugenia Urrere

Eugenia Urrere graduated from the National University of Rosario, Argentina, with a degree in Communications in 2012. She went on to continue her studies in Communications and Social Organisations, receiving a specialised degree in 2020. Meanwhile, in 2015, she also earned a diploma in Human Capital Management. Since 2014, Eugenia has been involved in various social and regional activist groups. She currently serves as Executive Director of Latinoamérica Habla, a civil association that works to protect, revitalise and digitise indigenous languages in Latin America. The organisation also promotes the inclusion of indigenous communities as well as respect for indigenous world views and equal opportunities. 

Where there’s resistance, there’s hope: Recovering linguistic diversity in Latin America
Activism, Decolonialism, Eugenia Urrere, Translation

Where there’s resistance, there’s hope: Recovering linguistic diversity in Latin America

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When a language dies, ancestral knowledge is lost and the culture begins to disappear. Our human capacity for creativity becomes restricted as we increasingly adopt more homogenous points of view. We begin to lose faculties such as tolerance and the practice finding harmony within diversity. Eventually, we begin to deteriorate as a society.