Focusing on key mediators of knowledge-exchange in the Andes – known as kamayoq – we explore a recursive politics of translation (historicized, power-laden processes of hierarchically ordering language and meaning). Focusing on intercultural and bilingual education and development programs in the Peruvian Andes, and connecting cultural geographical, anthropological, and critical socio-linguistic scholarship, we uncover how equivocations of Indigenous concepts reproduce a coloniality of knowledge and being. We explore how kamayoq re-purpose equivocations by reworking translations through Andean concepts and praxis, such as iskay yachay – a reciprocal dialogue among knowledges, which stresses epistemic multiplicity and diversity. We explore kamayoq praxis and iskay yachay as a decolonial geolinguistic praxis of articulating worlds (or ontologies) otherwise, in pursuit of multi-epistemic co-existence. Our findings raise questions about geographies of decolonial knowledges and praxis, particularly where potential decolonial praxis intersects with the formalized institutions of adult bilingual education and intercultural development programing.

我们将重点放在安第斯山脉知识交换的主要调解者（即kamayoq）上，探讨翻译的递归政治（历史化，费力的语言和意义等级排序过程）。我们着眼于秘鲁安第斯山脉的跨文化和双语教育与发展计划，并将文化地理，人类学和重要的社会语言学者联系在一起，我们发现土著概念的模棱两可如何再现知识​​和存在的殖民地。我们将探讨kamayoq如何通过安第斯概念和实践（例如iskay yachay）（知识之间的对等对话）重译翻译，从而重新利用模棱两可的词法，强调知识的多样性和多样性。探索kamayoqpractic和iskay yachay是为了表达世界（或本体论）的非殖民地地理学实践，否则就是为了追求多病害共存。我们的发现提出了有关殖民主义知识和实践的地理环境的问题，尤其是在潜在的殖民主义实践与成人双语教育和跨文化发展计划的正规机构相交的地方。