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Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics
Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants – cacao, mate, agave, the hevea brasilensis, kudzu, the breadfruit, soy, and the ceiba pentandra, among others – this volume shows that vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries in and beyond the region. Drawing on a wide range of cultural traditions and forms across literature, popular music, art, and film, the essays included in this volume transcend regional and linguistic boundaries to bring together multiple plant-centred histories or ‘understories’ – narratives that until now have been marginalized or gone unnoticed. Attending not only to the significant influence of humans on plants, but also of plants on humans, this book offers new understandings of how colonization, globalization, and power were, and continue to be, imbricated with nature in the American tropics.
Italy to Argentina
In Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism, Tullio Pagano examines Italian emigration to Argentina and the Rio de la Plata region through the writings of Italian economists, poets, anthropologists, and political activists from the 1860s to the beginning of World War I. He shows that Italians played an important role in the so-called conquest of the desert, which led to Argentina's economic expansion and the suppression and killing of the remaining indigenous population. Many of the texts he discusses have hardly been studied before: from Paolo Mantegazza's real and imaginary travel narratives at the time of Italian unification to Gina Lombroso's descriptions of Brazil, Ur...
Residues
Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection regimes tend to be highly segmented according to place, media, substance, and effect; academic scholarship often reflects this same segmented approach. Yet, in chemical substances we encounter phenomena that are at once voluminous and miniscule, singular and ubiquitous, regulated yet unruly. Inspired by recent studies of materiality and infrastructures, we introduce “residual materialism” as a framework for attending to the socio-material properties of chemicals and their world-making powers. Tracking residues through time, space, and understanding helps us see how the past has been built into our present chemical environments and future-oriented regulatory systems, why contaminants seem to always evade control, and why the Anthropocene is as inextricably harnessed to the synthesis of carbon into new molecules as it is driven by carbon’s combustion.
Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World
Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World brings together critical studies of Latin American and Latinx writing, film, visual, and performing arts to offer new perspectives on ecological violence. Building on Rob Nixon’s concept of "slow violence," the contributions to the volume explore processes of environmental destruction that are not immediately visible yet expand in time and space and transcend the limits of our experience. Authors consider these forms of destruction in relation to new material contexts of artistic creation, practices of activism, and cultural production in Latin American and Latinx worlds. Their critical contributions investig...
Yásnaya Aguilar Gil. En defensa de las lenguas originarias (Magis 474)
Semblanza de la lingüista Yásnaya Aguilar Gil, defensora de las lenguas originarias y activista mixe que lucha contra el racismo, el despojo y la explotación de los pueblos indígenas. (ITESO); (ITESO Universidad). https://magis.iteso.mx/
Genocidio silencioso
Esta obra da cuenta de la regulación internacional de algunos de los agentes tóxicos más poderosos creados por la sociedad humana: los desechos, químicos peligrosos y contaminantes orgánicos persistentes (pesticidas prohibidos). Este análisis investigativo evidencia una serie de casos de contaminación ambiental y afectaciones a la salud que pasa por el crimen corporativo, la política internacional, el modelo económico y alimentario, y pone de presente, la necesidad y la urgencia de dar mayor alcance al régimen y a los esfuerzos de la comunidad internacional, para afrontar los químicos y pesticidas y la generación de residuos en general que dañan y amenazan la vida en la tierra. El riesgo es de tal magnitud que no es posible proteger una ciudad o un país aislado, sino que se hace necesario proteger todo el planeta. El libro se enfoca en la respuesta de la comunidad científica e internacional, destacando el proceso histórico, las afectaciones en la salud, el daño ambiental y los tratados internacionales existentes en el seno de las Naciones Unidas.
El costo humano de los agrotóxicos
The Human Cost documents the impact of 20 years of indiscriminate use of agrochemicals in the rural northeast of Argentina. The project focuses on the Entre Rios, Misiones and Chaco areas and the devastating impact of the people and their environment.
World Press Photo
Vols. for 1962- comprise a selection from photographs submitted for the 6th- annual World Press Photo exhibition.
Qual o Caminho do Brasil? Instituições, Cultura e Política no Século XXI
As dificuldades que estamos vivenciando no Brasil não são nenhuma novidade. Desde a colonização e a formação do Estado brasileiro que convivemos com uma estrutura econômica basicamente de exportação de matérias-primas aliada à subalternidade internacional e à colonialidade de um poder dirigido por elites econômicas e políticas que retroalimentam as nossas desigualdades sociais estratosféricas por meio do DNA de uma mentalidade escravocrata, autoritária, reacionária e conservadora. Como resultado, temos um total desleixo com a coisa (res)pública (educação, saúde, ciência e demais equipamentos sociais) que são gerenciados pelo patrimonialismo, fisiologismo, clientelismo ...
La forma inicial
En los ensayos, conversaciones y entrevistas que conforman este volumen, producidos en los últimos años, Piglia plantea, a partir de esa forma inicial que es para él la conversación, algunos de los problemas de la narración y sus consecuencias. Dos núcleos destacan en esta búsqueda: por un lado, la renovación de los modos de narrar ligados a la forma de la nouvelle, y con ello las hipótesis sobre su especificidad, sus aspectos formales, la relación con el cuento y la novela, el estilo y las operaciones formales de Onetti en Los adioses, la nouvelle por antonomasia. Por otro lado, hay en estas intervenciones, como lo señala el propio autor, “un intento de transmitir la experienci...
