RADIO-APU

tuning into the raising of urban Buen Vivir (good living)

Abstract

This collective text weaves and amplifies the voices of radio-Apu, the creation of which are our walkings,
organized from the relationship with the knowledges of our ancestralities. Written and transcribed by Arely Amaut from the conversation with teachers Rosa Rondinel and Nataly Albornoz, the students and mothers of the school 6100 Santa María Reyna located in the Centro Poblado Rural Quebrada Verde, Pachacamac, Lima. We weave communication
bridges with the school, its families, and the Lomas de Lúcumo. In reading this text, you will be situated in the fragile ecosystem of the lomas and the recognition of the presence of the voice of the Apu (mountain-deity), who tutelates the equilibrium of the ecosystem and the mutual care that nurtures the continuity of life. The text presents the listening between the ecosystem of the Lomas de Lúcumo, the Apu and the community, through collective activities woven with local tales, some of which allow us to envision the environmental and historical violence that threatens the lomas. Radio-Apu tunes into the recuperation of the urban Buen Vivir (wellbeing) in Lima, knowledges of the Andino-Amazonian cosmovisions. How do we reconnect with the Saqlla (nature: wild fauna and flora) of the city and
the ancestral knowledges that remind us that we live an immanent world? How do we walk from the school and the ancestral territory as agents of this connection?