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Alexander’s emotional responses to particular situations while living with an artist community in the Andes Mountains of Peru became a turning point in her life when considering privilege, difference, social justice, authority, and power. As a white female educator from rural Indiana, never in her life had she experienced such strong feelings of laughter, pain, and happiness as she did in the community as an outsider with mostly brown male artists. The fleshpoint described in this chapter includes a first-person point of view of being tear-gassed while a demonstration broke out over mining and water rights of Natives and leaves the reader with queries in consideration of international spaces.
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Alexander, A. (2018). Adjusting One’s Self: An Educator’s Experience in a Peruvian Community. In: Travis, S., Kraehe, A., Hood, E., Lewis, T. (eds) Pedagogies in the Flesh. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59599-3_24
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