A5011022355- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Indigenous Cultures and History
- Mining and Resource Management
- Climate change and permafrost
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- International Relations in Latin America
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Regional Development and Innovation
- Environmental and Ecological Studies
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Politics and Society in Latin America
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Rural development and sustainability
- Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
- Latin American history and culture
- Social Issues and Sustainability
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
University of Copenhagen
2014-2025
Center for Global Development
2015-2018
Frederiksberg Hospital
2017
Glacierized mountains are often referred to as our world's water towers because glaciers both store over time and regulate seasonal stream flow, releasing runoff during dry seasons when societies most need water. Ice loss thus has the potential affect human in diverse ways, including irrigation, agriculture, hydropower, potable water, livelihoods, recreation, spirituality, demography. Unfortunately, research focusing on impacts of glacier variability mountain regions remains limited, studies...
Increased conservation action to protect more habitat and species is fueling a vigorous debate about the relative effectiveness of different sorts protected areas. Here we review literature that compares areas managed by states Indigenous peoples and/or local communities. We argue these can be hard comparisons make. Robust comparative case studies are rare, epistemic communities producing them fractured language, discipline, geography. Furthermore distinction between forms protection on...
As icons of a world set in motion by human action, glaciers are often highlighted as quintessential evidences global climate change. Although there is general agreement among scientists that around the receding, much discussions on subject tend to be oriented toward technological methodologies. Yet, elements landscape, strongly integrated various societies ways exceed their role provider fundamental sources water. The relation between and therefore marked processes attribution, perception,...
Amid global climate change and an uneven political economy that preys on natural resources, landscapes are reshaped at the confluence of land water, concretely abstractly. Focusing production place, we suggest their point convergence, there is relational ontology between water. This constitutive relationality basis what call amphibious anthropology. By foregrounding temporality, movement, ways knowing, aim to grasp experience places water probe into specificities life in such or various...
Aspirations bring different versions of the future into present. This introductory essay asks what we can learn by attending to myriad ways in which rural subjects and collectivities articulate institutionalise aspirations. We argue that aspirations are conditioned constellations power, shape be done imagined. These visions alternative futures either affirmative or transformative, but will always entail negotiations over meaning self community. conceptualisation cautions against policymaking...
Abstract As in other areas of Argentina, residents from the Norte Neuquino northwestern reaches Patagonia are concerned about recent advancements extractivism onto their territories. Their analysis is clear: environmental crisis directly linked to a democratic one, and they engage wide range actions envision enact alternative futures. This combines contentious prefigurative politics. article analyses labour socio‐environmental assembly Huinganco through its attention everyday, making...
Abstract Abandonment has become a performative idiom in Andean Peru, where it retains its purchase despite the investments of state. Local development is tied to desire be governed. In spite prolonged state presence, villages’ relationship authorities continuously and persistently figured as one abandonment: villages are abandoned because someone deliberately holding them such unfortunate conditions. To figure abandonment village politics draw on this an effective means both communicating...
As in many other parts of the Peruvian Andes, peasants rural Recuay report receding glaciers, altered patterns precipitation, and disappearing species plants wildlife among things that may unsettle everyday. Susan Whyte’s concept uncertainty highlights fact climate change emerges different ways particular situations. It informs water politics local lives but is not a priori most important part story. Rather than adapting to change, people adapt their social worlds. Así como en varias partes...
This article explores the potential construction of a water reservoir in Peru's Cordillera Blanca. Proposed by peasant group, it would have served important productive purposes but its intake within perimeter national park. Thus, different notions about and landscape emerge encounters between place-based practices state-sponsored conservation efforts. Empirically tracing efforts to construct reservoir, analytical focus is on how ways knowing particular conjure collide process. It argued that...
Since the 1980s globalization has taken on increasingly neoliberalizing forms in form of commoditization objects, resources, or even human bodies, their reduction to financial values, and enclosure other dispossession. “After dispossession” provides ethnographic accounts diverse ways deal with dispossessions by attempts at repossessing values connection what been lost neoliberal assemblages people resources thus how material loss might be compensated for terms subjective experiences...
ecologies of production'' underscores the social, economic, and environmental embeddedness Andean household economies explores pathways to market.Articulation governance are main concerns when it comes understanding ways in which peasant maintained through environmentally embedded social relations, turn govern how natural resources ecosystems managed.The article concludes by pointing three issues importance with regard a green economy:(1) In conditions poverty, economically risky investments...
Peru's peasant communities (comunidades campesinas) are collectivities organised around common land tenure. By tracing the development in organisation a particular community highland Ancash, this article argues that communally owned businesses were fundamental to success of its struggle consolidate itself, and recovery ancestral lands. I explore emergent arenas social struggle, arguing these pivot tensions between agrarian non-agrarian business activities, use human natural resources and,...
Since the early 1990s Peru has experienced an expansion in mining activities and what Peruvian ombudsman defines as socioenvironmental conflicts. This article examines dynamics through which environmental issue is transformed into a matter of citizenship social belonging during weeklong uprising defense Lake Conococha. Highlighting collective actions personal narratives from participants region-wide blockade, therefore seeks to understand how dispossessions resources perceived common...
Abstract This conclusion to the In‐Focus issue examines conservation frontier in Patagonia. The is a historical process of spatial transformation connected mobilization imaginaries that unlock existing regimes resource control and promote new territorialization projects. discussion highlights creation national park systems, securing contested border, conversion Andean Patagonia into space sublime wilderness. We argue contemporary an open field contestation defined by its multiplicities....
Un elemento central en la gobernanza ambiental multiescalar y jerárquica es legitimidad provisoria de los arreglos institucionales. Este artículo se enfoca las estrategias desplegadas por una muestra jefaturas áreas naturales protegidas del Perú su trabajo con, desde, para a veces contra comunidades búsqueda convivencia negociada. En actualidad relación parque-comunidad el caracteriza un acercamiento estratégico. A partir entrevistas documentos gubernamentales, presente texto analizan...
Abstract Far from a settled fact, environmental citizenship is always in the making. In this article, we analyze how settlers of protected area Patagonia, Argentina, seek to legitimize their claims for natural resources and territory through strategic representations themselves. The self‐presentation molds not only own political subjects, but also public authority governing offices. We argue that legitimization institutions partial fragmented, allowing become active producers citizenship....