Miriam Liggins
Thesis Title (PhD)
“QUECHUA ONLINE: MOVING KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE IN TIME AND SPACE”
This project investigates Quechua language teaching and learning, and the transmission of Indigenous knowledge during the Covid-19 pandemic.
My research focusses specifically on how and why people are learning Quechua online, through both synchronous and asynchronous group courses. I will explore teachers’ and learners’ motivations, and their experiences of these classes. In addition, traditional Andean knowledge is being increasingly broadcast online, often incorporating non-written media such as music, textiles and Quechua myths. This study examines how online platforms are being used for this purpose, with a specific focus on the role of Quechua in the transmission of ancestral knowledge.
I will consider how online spaces are being used to transmit Indigenous knowledge and language, uncovering participants’ engagement with, and sharing of Quechua language and knowledge in cyberspace.