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- Calderón-Contreras, Rafael, et al.
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A regional PECS node built from place-based social-ecological sustainability research in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 2022
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Ingår i: Ecosystems and People. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2639-5908 .- 2639-5916. ; 18:1, s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sustainability requires a combination of meaningful co-production of locally relevant solutions, synthesis of insights gained across regions, and increased cooperation between science, policy and practice. The Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) has been coordinating Place-Based Social-Ecological Sustainability Research (PBSESR) across the globe and emphasizes the need for regional scientific nodes from diverse biocultural regions to inform sustainability science and action. In this paper, we assess the strengths of the PBSESR communities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). We provide an overview of PBSESR literature associated with this region and highlight the achievements of two prominent regional networks: The Social-Ecological Systems and Sustainability Research Network from Mexico (SocioEcoS) and the South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies from Uruguay (SARAS Institute). Finally, we identify the potential in these nodes to constitute a regional PECS node in Latin America and discuss the capacity needed to ensure such function. The results of the literature review show that while still loosely interconnected across the region, networks play key roles in connecting otherwise cloistered teams and we illustrate how the SocioEcoS network (focusing on transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge towards sustainability) and the SARAS Institute (focusing on innovative approaches for looking at complex social-ecological problems, rooted in slow science and arts) operate as key connectors in the region. We conclude that these organizations combined can embody a Latin American node for PECS, and would thereby not only contribute to regional but also global capacities to advance the sustainability agenda.
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- Perez-Ramos, María Isabel, 1984-
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A QUEST FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOVEREIGNTY : Chicana/o Literary Experiences of Water (Mis)Management and Environmental Degradation in the US Southwest
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The U.S. Southwest is a semi-arid region affected by numerous environmental problems. Chicana/o communities have been directly affected by such problems, especially ever since the region was annexed from Mexico by the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. From this moment onwards they lost their environmental sovereignty, mostly through their dispossession of the natural resources. This environmental humanities dissertation focuses on the ethics, politics, and practices around water (management), for water is a key natural resource and a central element of Chicana/o cultural identity. It explores the ways in which Chicana/o culture is interconnected with environmental practices and sites in subaltern literary works about the Chicana/o experience. It investigates how the hegemonic Anglo-American environmental, political, and economic practices have challenged and undermined Chicana/o culture, identity, and wellbeing, and how this has been addressed in fiction; and it questions whether establishing such a connection adds any useful insights to the larger discussion on the global socio-environmental crisis. This dissertation also analyzes the writer activist character of the subaltern narratives of the corpus, with attention to the relevance of rhetoric in subverting and constructing environmental discourses and ethics. By examining regional and border narratives, as well as fiction and non-fiction narratives about the socio-environmental struggles of other ethnic minorities in the Southwest and in other parts of the world, this dissertation puts literature about the Chicana/o experience in a regional, national, and transnational context. It moreover explores the pivotal role of literature in reclaiming environmental sovereignty, in asserting cultural identities, and in countering the environmental crisis by imagining alternative managerial practices and socio-environmental relations, as much as in challenging cultural hegemonies.
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- Perez-Ramos, Isabel Maria, 1984-
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The Water Apocalypse : Venice desert cities and utopian arcologies in Southwestern dystopian fiction
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Numerous stories have, and are being written in both criticism and literature about the future of the U.S. Southwest, and pretty much always said future is considered to be closely linked to the vicissitudes of water. The Southwest could be regarded as an undisciplined environment, forcing U.S. environmentalists to get over the color green while some of the population faces a drought by painting the grass of their front yards into that same color. In a disciplinary work that combines ecocriticism, political ecology and decolonial theories this presentation analyzes the way in which different Southwestern cultural groups are interlinked with the environmental degradation of the region, mostly due to the mismanagement of water. The struggles over water rights portrayed in the novel Alburquerque (1992), by the renown Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya, become very real when one reads the posts and news about the water-demanding Santolina sprawl development currently proposed for Albuquerque’s West side. In the same line, a lush sprawl development called “Venice” is proposed in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (1991). On another tone, Paolo Bacigalupi’s last novel, The Water Knife (2015) presents arcologies (self-contained, self-sufficient buildings) as an option to scape what he perceives will be a hellish region when climate change worsens and water underground levels are eventually depleted. Migration, xenophobia and environmental re-adaptation become then central issues to consider. A nuanced analysis of these dystopian narratives brings into question current decision making around water management in the Southwest through the decolonial perspectives of the authors. If one argues that the environmental degradation of the arid Southwest is partly a consequence of the cultural oppression of the native local inhabitants, by imposing an inappropriate socio-environmental culture over the region, dystopian novels such as these become all the more relevant when proposing alternative futures.
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- Perez Ramos, Isabel Maria, 1984-
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¡VARRIO SI, YONKES NO! : Urban and Rural Socio-Environmental Struggles in Chicanos Corridos/Music, Artivism and Crafts
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Stemming from my previous work on Chicano socio-environmental struggles produced in the U.S. Southwest and reflected in literary works, I intend to broaden my research by analyzing other cultural manifestations regarding Chicanos’ resistances. Music, visual arts and crafts are other means through which Chicanas and Chicanos had voiced their discontent against socio-environmental injustices. These would for instance include the degradation of their barrios and communities, the loss of land grants and communal rights, or the consistent poisoning and mistreatment of farmworkers.I will explore these issues through music (mainly corridos), instances of visual art often labeled as artivism (murals), and a craft (embroidery). I intend to analyze Chicano socio-environmental consciousness as portrayed in four different case studies: the corridos celebrating Reies López Tijerina and the work of La Alianza Federal de Las Mercedes; the corridos honoring Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, leaders of the United Farm Workers; the murals in Chicano Park (San Diego, California –from which the quote in the title is taken); and the embroidery of a local protest against privatization, enclosure and environmental degradation of a land grant in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of southern Colorado.Art (in its broadest sense) can reclaim a historical identity, making it available for the political use of the community. Through this paper I intend to contribute to uncover the richness of Chicano socio-environmental consciousness, which I believe deserves more scholarly scrutiny. This consciousness, I argue, is central to Chicano’s sense of community and plays a key role in their struggle for cultural autonomy.
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- Perez Ramos, María Isabel, 1984-
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The Water Apocalypse : Utopian Desert Venice Cities and Arcologies in Southwestern Dystopian Fiction
- 2016
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Ingår i: Ecozon@. - Universidad de Alcalá. - 2171-9594. ; 7:2, s. 44-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Numerous stories have and are being written in both fiction and non-fiction about the future of the United States’ Southwest; and nearly always that future is considered to be closely linked to the vicissitudes of water. In a multidisciplinary work that combines ecocriticism, environmental history, and decolonial theories, this paper analyzes the socio-technological complexities behind water (mis)management in the Southwest with a focus on urban environments, and their socio-environmental consequences.A lush sprawl development called ‘Venice’ is proposed in Arizona in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (1991). In the same line, Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya presents struggles over water rights and plans for turning Albuquerque into a ‘desert Venice’ city in his novel Alburquerque (1992). Fictional plans like these become very real when one reads the posts and news about the water-demanding Santolina sprawl development currently proposed for Albuquerque’s West side. On another note, Paolo Bacigalupi’s last novel, The Water Knife (2015) presents arcologies (self-contained, self-sufficient buildings) as an option to escape what he perceives will be a hellish region when climate change worsens and water underground levels are eventually depleted. Migration, xenophobia and environmental re-adaptation then become central issues to consider. A nuanced decolonial analysis of these dystopian narratives calls into question current decision-making around water management in the Southwest through the perspectives of these authors. If one argues that the environmental degradation of the arid Southwest is partly a consequence of the cultural oppression of the native local inhabitants, by imposing an inappropriate socio-environmental culture and ethics over the region, dystopian novels such as these become all the more relevant when proposing alternative futures.
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