Mondovì. Inside the Tèssere del Monastery of San Biagiosupported by the CRC Foundation with the collaboration of Capovolte Edizioni and Border Radio, Thursday 20 June at 6.30 pm meeting with Alice Schellino, author of Traveling the Margin. In the Highlands of Guatemala among Mayan women. Conducts the meeting Ilaria Leccardi, founder of Edizioni Capovolte, with the technical support of Border Radio: the meeting will become a podcast which will subsequently be put online. Capovolte is an independent publishing house. A micro reality in motion that imagines new ways of knowing, triggers shared practices from an anti-racist and transfeminist perspective, offers new reading lenses. Exactly, Upside Down.
trucks. But also the profound, painful, feminine and marginal Guatemala, the feeling of abandonment, aggressive tourism and
careless, the repeated violence on the land and on the bodies of women, the wounds of a genocidal war that has affected the indigenous population
his main victim. An encounter experienced in the interweaving of travels, along an interior, intimate and feminine journey, in a retracing of places, fragments, healings. Much more than an anthropological investigation. This book is the story of a solitary traveller, a woman among other women, between disorientation, research and solidarity.
Alice Schellino. Born in 1987 in Castiglione Torinese, she is a cultural anthropologist, teacher and solitary traveler. Graduated in Anthropology Cultural and Ethnology at the University of Turin in 2012, he conducted his research in Guatemala, guided by an interest anthropological, personal and human. She worked in the hospitality sector, as a teacher of Italian L2 in a Sprar project for asylum seekers based in Mondovì, and at a cooperative member of Altrome cato in Cuneo, as a shop manager and collaborator for educational projects in schools. She lives in the mountain valleys of Cuneo and teaches Italian, history and geography in lower secondary school.
