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How is life in a criminalized ecology the Andean-Amazonian foothills of southwestern Colombia? In what way does antinarcotics policy that aims to eradicate la mata que (the plant kills) pursue peace through poison? Relatedly, how do people keep on cultivating garden, caring for forest, or growing food when at any moment crop-duster plane may pass overhead, indiscriminately spraying herbicides over entire landscapes? Since 2000, U.S.–Colombian War Drugs has relied militarized aerial...
Resumen Desde el 2000, la gobernanza y capacidad productiva de los suelos Amazónicos surge como un asunto político en “Guerra contra las Drogas” EEUU‐Colombia. Los científicos estatales son convocados a producir una entidad clasificable cuya definición depende sus cualidades productivas: “buen suelo” es robustamente productivo, orientado al mercado, perfectible mediante acción humana. No obstante, agricultores departamento del Putumayo realizan prácticas materiales donde menos objeto que...
Between 1994 and 2015, militarized aerial fumigation was a central component of US-Colombia antidrug policy. Crop duster planes sprayed concentrated formula Monsanto's herbicide, glyphosate, over illicit crops, also forests, soils, pastures, livestock, watersheds, subsistence food human bodies. Given that national peace agreement signed in 2016 between FARC-EP guerrillas the state to end Colombia's five decades war, certain government officials are quick proclaim glyphosate an issue past....
Curated and Introduced by Kristina Lyons, Juno Parreñas Noah Tamarkin
En Colombia hay un creciente debate público sobre el reconocimiento de la naturaleza como víctima guerra y las consecuentes acciones reparación en marco del pos-Acuerdo Paz justicia transicional. Estas incluyen llamada “reconstrucción memoria ambiental” guerra. A partir proyecto reconstrucción socioecológica cuenca río Mandur, Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo, este artículo argumenta cómo comunitario investigación acción participativa conflicto su relación con degradación socioambiental constituye...
Abstract Across different national contexts, liberal legal frameworks have primarily focused on war crimes and violence against human victims as violations of rights international law. In Colombia, there is growing recognition that “nature” territories are also casualties war, requiring punitive sanctioning reparative treatment in the country's transitional justice process. This article examines how local communities inhabiting epicenters violence, along with officials responsible for...
Abstract This article presents an ethnographic and participatory action research project to reconstruct the “socioecological memory” of Mandur River watershed in Colombian Amazon. The objective this was create conditions for community dialogues over territorial ordering, recovery, conservation midst ongoing socio-environmental conflicts. author introduces proposal engage what grassroots organizations call “profound reconciliation” along with ethical stakes reconciliatory processes that tend...
<p>La fumigación aérea con glifosato fue un componente central de la política antidroga Estados Unidos y Colombia hasta el año 2015. En este artículo hago seguimiento etnográfico las quejas campesinos del Departamento Putumayo, quienes buscan ser reparados por aspersión su agroforestería lícita. Revelo qué punto evidencia que circula en estas zonas guerra —semilleros, cultivos pancoger, coordenadas GPS documentos burocráticos— retiene huellas violencia toxicidad glifosato. Ante...
e21018 Background: Mainly present in academic hospital centers, Diversity Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts have been largely left out of private practice. We previously reported on the impact DEI training at VOA after our initial launch Council August 2020. VOA’s continues its mission to further advancements promoting a safe inclusive environment practice setting. Methods: The methodology employed involved administration an anonymous comprehensive nine-question survey by assess...
En el 2018, la Corte Suprema de Colombia declaró a Amazonía como sujeto derechos. Esta decisión se basó en una sentencia que otorgó derechos legales al río Atrato. A diferencia este caso, impulsado por las comunidades ribereñas, concesión obliga autoridades municipales y locales asumir nuevas responsabilidades establecidas un fallo mayormente conceptualizado sin su participación. texto, reflexiono sobre cómo desarrollo los naturaleza presencia actores regionales “mejoraría” conflictos...
During the global pandemic and online teaching, we co-taught keystone course for new environmental humanities minor at University of Pennsylvania. Beyond introducing students to transdisciplinary modes communication analytical frameworks, focused around building a public engaged collaboration with community organizations civil society initiatives in Colombia. The final project class resulted bilingual Digital Environmental Justice Storytelling platform that invites people learn how different...
Macarena Gómez-Barris, The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Durham, NC, London: Duke University Press, 2017), pp. xx + 188, 23.95, pb E-book; £70.00, £19.99, E-book. - Volume 51 Issue 3