Resistance-existence within and against education in colonized lands

In this chapter, we present two experiences of educational resistance in conditions of colonial oppression, in Amazonian Ecuador and historic Palestine. In solidarity with the struggles of Indigenous and Palestinian peoples, we discuss how they speak to one another in terms of practices of emancipation and liberation. Despite their geographical distance, and the violence and scholasticide currently taking place in Palestine, we recognise commonalities, influences, and mutual support. We look primarily at the university setting where, more than in other educational levels, the production of knowledge is constrained by the rules of neoliberal capitalism. Both within academia and beyond, we have observed spaces of care and land-based and liberating pedagogies as building spaces of resistance, fundamental to assert the right to exist.