Simona V. Yagenova

Title

Simona V. Yagenova

Birthplace

Guatemala

Primary Sources

Yagenova, S. V. (2015). Guatemalan social movements: From the peace process to a new cycle of popular struggle, (1996-2014). In P. Almeida & C. U. Allen (Eds.), Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America (pp. 327-334). Dordrecht Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9912-6_23

Yagenova, S. V. (2011). Solidarity Is a Characteristic of the Maya People: Dominga Vásquez, interviewed by Simona Violetta Yagenova. In G. Grandin., D. T. Levenson., E. Oglesby (Eds.), The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822394679-103

Yagenova, S. V., & Garcia, R. (2009). Indigenous People's Struggles Against Transnational Mining Companies in Guatemala: The Sipakapa People vs GoldCorp Mining Company, Socialism and Democracy, 23(3), 157-166. 
https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300903208795

Secondary Sources

Albriton, M., Kolivras, K., Chang, B., Copeland, N., Prado, G. G., & Krometis, L.-A. (2024). “Dying of Thirst, Like Fish in the Sea”: Syndemic Health Impacts and Environmental Risk Perceptions Associated with Mining among the Ch’orti’ of Eastern Guatemala. Journal of Latin American Geography23(1), 48–79. https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.2024.a929687

Porada, H., Boelens, R., & Hogenboom, B. (2024). Entangled territorial controversies: Contesting mining, territorial ordering, and authority in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Geoforum155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104110

Rodríguez, J. (2016). This Land Is Ours: In Guatemala, a struggle over land and resources pits transnational mining interests against indigenous communities. 
NACLA Report on the Americas48(3), 245–252. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2016.1228173

Extra Resources

FLASCO Guatemala. (n.d.). Simona Violetta Yagenova. https://flacso.edu.gt/simona-yagenova/

Citation

“Simona V. Yagenova,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/327.

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