Gladys Tzul Tzul · @online · Interview on Governance

Gladys Tzul Tzul · @online · Interview on Governance

What can centuries of Indigenous communal government teach us about holding land, work, and decisions in common? A Maya K'iche' sociologist from Guatemala, Tzul Tzul is among the sharpest theorists of communal systems in the Americas, tracing how Indigenous communities self-govern through kinship webs, rotating responsibility, and the collective administration of shared goods. Her contribution grounds the Forum's inquiry in a living, centuries-old practice: not the commons as a new proposal, but communal government as an existing, contested, and continually reproduced way of organising life together.

Gladys Tzul Tzul

Gladys Tzul Tzul

Sociologist

Gladys Tzul Tzul is a Maya K'iche’ woman from Totonicapán. She is a writer and essayist. Holding a PhD in Sociology, she has conducted research in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Ecuador, and the United States.


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