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- Castro, Azucena, 1980-
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Ecologías extrañas : Lecturas postnaturales de poemas extensos latinoamericanos del siglo XXI (Roxana Miranda Rupailaf, Daniel Samoilovich y Luigi Amara)
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study discusses the articulation of a form of ecological thought grounded in a postnatural aesthetics in twenty-first century long poems from Latin America. I argue that the relationship between poetry and ecology, as analyzed in Latin American ecopoetry, and particularly in the long poem of the 70s and 80s, needs to be supplemented with a postnatural framework, in order to theorize the articulations of ‛the living’ ‒assemblages between human and more-than-human worlds‒ in the contemporary long poem. Working within a socioecopoetic paradigm, previous studies in ecopoetry understand the expression of ecological thinking in poems as a portrayal or denunciation of the ecological crisis primarily expressed in the poem’s thematic content. I maintain, however, that contemporary long poems manifest the relationship between poetry and ecology in experiments with poetic form, producing thus estrangement effects, which enable a most profound poetic engagement with current ecological issues as poetic voices from the Global South. The purpose of this dissertation is, then, to theorize the experimental poetic practices that the contemporary long poem deploys in order to articulate an ecological thought. My main argument is that the formal articulations of ‛the living’ in the long poem can be understood as what I call strange ecologies, a notion that refers to poetic practices that, by generating estrangement effects, exhaust the modern divide between humanity and nature. I propose that such poetic practices can be conceptualized adopting an aesthetic-theoretical framework from the postnatural South situated in the history of extractivism and colonialism in Latin America. The proposed notion questions the assumptions of nature as understood in the essentialist terms that sustained the dichotomy nature/culture since the Enlightenment in Western Modernity. In this sense, the main theoretical assumptions are postnatural and posthumanist. From these perspectives, I argue that a postnatural understanding of the relation between nature and culture in the long poem offers a means to reformulate the articulation of ecological thinking in Latin American poetry. As the poetic practices in twenty-first century long poems exhaust the idea of subject and world, aesthetic autonomy as well as the dichotomies life/death and the biological/the social, strange ecologies challenge the nature/culture divide. Accordingly, I sustain that the poetic practices of twenty-first century long poems embody and reformulate the postnatural condition.By mapping the articulations of the living in three distinct cases of strange ecologies ‒Roxana Miranda Rupailaf’s queer incorporation of an ancestral Mapuche-Huilliche myth in the long poem Shumpall (2011), Daniel Samoilovich’s neo-objectivist language that interweaves nature, culture and capital in fractal and grotesque patterns in the theatrical long poem El despertar de Samoilo. El siglo XX ¿qué se fizo? (2005) and Luigi Amara’s psychogeographic walk at ground level in the essayist and visual long poem A pie (2010)‒, I contend in this study that the ecology of estrangement in the long poem challenges the anthropocentric paradigm of Modernity as well as the neo-extractivist practices in Latin America. In the analysis, I show how the poetic practices of strange ecologies inscribe the effects of neo-extractivism in formal experiments where the more-than-human worlds emerge in the historicity of language, thus laying the grounds for a postnatural Latin American poetry.
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- Castro, Azucena, 1980-, et al.
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Energy sovereignty storytelling : Art practices, community-led transitions, and territorial futures in Latin America
- 2024
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Ingår i: Tapuya: Latin American science, technology and society. - 2572-9861. ; 7:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we study forms of storytelling about energy sovereignty retrieved from community-based art and their implications for energy justice formulations in Latin America. Based on the visual and discursive analysis of five contemporary Latin American artistic practices, the article shows that their poetic and political engagements with energy production, consumption, and distribution build what we call energy sovereignty storytelling. That is, understandings of energy justice that territorialize energy technologies, thus defying Western-centered views on energy and energy infrastructure in a context of marked transitions. Combining insights from art analysis in STS with concepts from energy humanities and technological sovereignty studies, this research discusses four aspects that characterize these emergent energy storytelling practices. By bringing these four aspects together, this study shows that territory-attuned, community-based art research highlights understandings of energy beyond corporate extractivism and market interests. In this way, activating new modes of storytelling in relation to energy affords novel understandings of energy and energy infrastructure that can contribute to attaining a just and equitable energy transition in Latin America, where ancestral and local more-than-human communities can participate actively in shaping energy presents and futures.
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- Castro, Azucena, 1980-
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Orden del cuerpo y orden mítico- : Épica y exterminio en el poema largo contemporáneo
- 2015
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Ingår i: IV Congreso Internacional - "Cuestiones Críticas". - : CELA (Centro de Estudios de Literatura Argentina).
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Esta ponencia es un acercamiento al texto Cuando todo acabe todo acabará (2008) de Ana Arzoumanian como un poema largo que instala su lugar de enunciación en el orden de los mitos y la historia, estableciendo así una relación con el género épico. Este texto exhibe una tensión entre un orden del cuerpo y un orden mítico que se articula desde una poética que trabaja con el ‘resto’, como modo de representación estética, marco de visión y noción crítica. A partir de esta articulación, propongo un conjunto de reflexiones sobre las herencias de la guerra y los relatos sobre el exterminio en este poema extenso. A su vez, la tensión entre cuerpo y mito también problematiza la herencia épica –como discurso y como género– que se plasma históricamente en el género del poema extenso.
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- Castro, Azucena, 1980-, et al.
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Sites of Situated Hope : Amazonian Rhythms, Unruly Caribbean Plants, and Post-Anthropocentric Gazes in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1356-9325 .- 1469-9575. ; 31:4, s. 591-612
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the ways in which the cinematic practices of the audiovisual productions Farmacopea (2013) by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (Puerto Rico) and Río Verde (2017) by Diego and Álvaro Sarmiento (Peru) address human-nature assemblages by articulating a post-anthropocentric gaze. Addressing these two movies as neoregional films, this essay discusses how these contemporary audiovisual productions explore the disastrous environmental histories of the tropical plantation in the Caribbean and the extractive exploitation of the Peruvian-Amazon jungle, exhibiting cinematic techniques that disrupt the socially committed tradition of Latin American cinema of the 1960s centred on human communities. Deploying experimental and poetic cinematic techniques, it is argued that these movies feature small matter by foregrounding local poisonous vegetation and corporal takes of humans and animals that register landscapes in disappearance in the face of modern extractive practices. Departing from Santiago Muñoz’s and the Sarmiento brothers’ filmic productions, we discuss how the embedding of Amazonian rhythms and unruly Caribbean plants in their filmic narratives produces sites of situated hope that both reconceptualise Latin American cinema and contest the necro-political violence of the modern extractive machinery.
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- Castro, Azucena, 1980-
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Vernacular Sustainabilities-Multispecies Stories and Life-Death Entanglements of the Sertão Nordestino in Contemporary Brazilian Futurisms (The Film Bacurau and the Sertãopunk Comic Cangaço Overdrive)
- 2022
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Ingår i: Humanities. - : MDPI AG. - 2076-0787. ; 11:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In northeastern Brazil, a region with extreme droughts and the smallest rainfall index in the whole country, water sources are crucial to ensure the survival of humans and nonhumans in this semi-arid region, known as sertão nordestino. Since the mid-twentieth century, classical cultural expressions focusing on this area have emphasized poverty in a desert of dry vegetation. Unlike romanticized portrayals of the backland in the 1990s, contemporary visual culture resorts to speculative and science fictional elements to reflect on possible futures amidst pressing socio-environmental challenges in the Capitalocene. This article examines how speculative and science-fictional elements in the film Bacurau (2019) by Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonca Filho and the sertãopunk comic Cangaço Overdrive (2018) by Zé Wellington and Walter Geovani configure human-nonhuman and life-death entanglements to rearticulate both the representation of these communities as backward or picturesque and their historical de-futuring due to neo-colonialism and extractivism. These Brazilian visual productions problematize the notion of sustainability as a linear progression of human-centric futurity. In a dialogue between feminist posthumanist (Donna Haraway) and decolonial (T. J. Demos) works and the visual productions, I offer the notion of 'vernacular sustainabilities' that decenters the human while fashioning new conceptualizations of entangled and diverging futures in the sertão.
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Futuros multiespecie : Prácticas vinculantes para un planeta en emergencia
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Futuros multiespecie explora los modos en que diversas prácticas artísticas contemporáneas elaboran relaciones entre humanos y no humanos ante los futuros climáticos con foco en América Latina. En un recorrido que incluye el sonido de paisajes en extinción en Colombia, tejidos para aves en la Patagonia, imágenes de esqueletos de salmón del Pacífico, lxs artistas, investigadorxs, educadorxs y curadorxs ofrecen nuevos métodos de indagación sobre los vínculos entre formas de vida y no vida en un planeta herido por la violencia extractiva y neocolonial. Los diversos ensayos e intervenciones artísticas y curatoriales activan lo multiespecie como alternativa estética y política para futuros que convocan lo ancestral y lo no humano contra los imaginarios del catastrofismo climático.
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- Hollman, Verónica, et al.
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Reclaiming Energy Flows : Energy GeoHumanities and the Socio-Ecologies of Rivers in Latin American Hydro-Modernities
- 2024
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Ingår i: GeoHumanities. - 2373-566X .- 2373-5678.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores fluvial forms of art and activism to reclaim new meanings of energy at a time when questions about the energy transition are central in geography studies and global environmental discourses. Departing from Serpent River Book by Carolina Caycedo, we propose affective, embodied, and creative entanglements to understand energy flows in river ecologies in Latin America for an exploration of energy geohumanities. We then discuss the methodology of this energy geohumanities project in our engagements with Caycedo’s art, reflecting on our sedimentary writing and thinking process enacted throughout the article. By centering this article on what energies art conjures and releases in affective and political terms, we explore the meanings of doing energy geohumanities in the deployment of a poetics of embodied tensions between flow and containment and between aerial and immersive views that challenge the dichotomies of subject/object, nature/culture and geo/human. Through unfolding a “sedimentary blog writing” method based on geo-mimicry, we hope to make a case for how entangled thinking and writing offer a novel approach to examining the multiple meanings of energy beyond electricity in the extractive zones of hydro-modernity.
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- Pereira, Laura M., 1985-, et al.
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Equity and justice should underpin the discourse on tipping points
- 2024
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Ingår i: Earth System Dynamics. - 2190-4979 .- 2190-4987. ; 15:2, s. 341-366
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Radical and quick transformations towards sustainability will be fundamental to achieving a more sustainable future. However, deliberate interventions to reconfigure systems will result in winners and losers, with the potential for greater or lesser equity and justice outcomes. Positive tipping points (PTPs) have been proposed as interventions in complex systems with the aim to (a) reduce the likelihood of negative Earth system tipping points and/or (b) increase the likelihood of achieving just social foundations. However, many narratives around PTPs often do not take into account the entire spectrum of impacts the proposed alternatives could have or still rely on narratives that maintain current unsustainable behaviours and marginalize many people (i.e. do not take “b” into account). One such example is the move from petrol-based to electric vehicles. An energy transition that remains based on natural resource inputs from the Global South must be unpacked with an equity and justice lens to understand the true cost of this transition. There are two arguments why a critical engagement with these and other similar proposals needs to be made. First, the idea of transitioning through a substitution (e.g. of fuel) while maintaining the system structure (e.g. of private vehicles) may not necessarily be conceived as the kind of radical transformation being called for by global scientific bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Second, and probably more importantly, the question of positive for whom, positive where, and positive how must be considered. In this paper, we unpack these narratives using a critical decolonial view from the south and outline their implications for the concept of tipping points.
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- Terry, Naomi Lerato, et al.
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Inviting a decolonial praxis for future imaginaries of nature : Introducing the Entangled Time Tree
- 2024
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Ingår i: Environmental Science and Policy. - : Elsevier. - 1462-9011 .- 1873-6416. ; 151
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The practice of envisioning the future has deep roots in the past. Across the continent of Africa, there are traditions of oral storytelling, griots, folklore, and indigenous speculation that offer guidance on how to live in the present and orient towards better futures. Whilst these traditions can act as navigational compasses, they are not prevalent in conventional futuring methodologies. Rather, we are surrounded by perspectives of thinking about the future as a projection of current trends. In this perspective, we offer a new heuristic, the Entangled Time Tree, to the body of futuring approaches for how to acknowledge multiple pasts and alternative ways of conceptualizing futures. We recognise that in a decolonial approach, it is necessary to consider a multiplicity of pasts that lead to diverse presents and futures; a recognition that we see reflected in Africanfuturism and in traditional storytelling that further offer diverse ways of understanding temporality and futures. We propose that the diverse forms of storytelling across the African continent constitute critically underexplored forms of knowledge for enabling a decolonial approach to futuring through three mechanisms -stories as power, stories as healing, and stories as diversification. We argue that centering these stories will allow the exploration of more just and ecologically sustainable futures. We recognise that this is just a first, but we hope a promising, step towards a longer term commitment of creating more diverse, imaginative visions and pathways of a decolonial future that will be useful not only on the African continent, but globally.
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