{"id":193,"date":"2009-10-05T10:20:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/?page_id=193"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:28:29","slug":"egla-martinez-salazar","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/people\/egla-martinez-salazar\/","title":{"rendered":"Egla Martinez Salazar"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr. Egla Mart\u00ednez Salazar<\/strong> holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and a Master&#8217;s degree in Environmental Studies. Her research and teaching focus on Anticolonial and Decolonial Socioenvironmental Justice, Critical Worldwide Indigenous Epistemologies, Interrelational Community Feminisms, and the Roots of Forced Migration. She is an Associate Professor of Human Rights and Social Justice in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Mart\u00ednez Salazar has experience in Guatemala, Mexico, and Canada and has published in the areas of state terror, genocide, racism, collective memory, and Indigenous Peoples, particularly in relation to the Peoples of Abya Yala (Latin America and the Caribbean). She is the author of <em>Global Coloniality of Power in Guatemala: Racism, Genocide, Citizenship<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is currently engaged in generating knowledge on the socio-legal-cultural criminalization processes directed at community social movements and defenders of <strong>Common Goods<\/strong> (other than human beings). This work examines struggles for the defense of rivers, forests, mountains, hills, food sovereignty, animals, waters, and Peoples (<em>Pueblos<\/em>), with particular attention to the work of Indigenous women, peasant movements, and ancestral resurgence movements. These struggles aim to contribute to global south sovereignty alternatives to ongoing colonial, capitalist, and patriarchal dispossession. Her research also continues to examine the Roots of Forced Migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8992,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Egla","cu_people_last_name":"Martinez Salazar","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[8],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-193","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-human-rights-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. Sociology (York)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"egla_martinezsalazar@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"1519","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8993,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/193\/revisions\/8993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}