Bio-geo-economías: una invitación
Universitas Humanística
Category: Spanish
El agua como bien común: entre la gestión comunitaria, lo privado y el ensamblaje de lo público
Entre 2018 y 2023, en la vereda La Sirena, que está ubicada en Ciénaga (Magdalena), sociólogos, ingenieros y biólogos intervinieron un sistema de gestión local del agua adaptando un sistema de almacenamiento y potabilización con una do…
La naturaleza del estrecho: proyectos de desarrollo y de comunicación interoceánica en el istmo mexicano
En este artículo analizo la imbricación entre la conformación del istmo como espacio geoestratégico, los diferentes procesos de intervención desarrollista y los recursos naturales como parte de la creación de paisajes tecnopolíticos, constan…
Paisajes (pos)mineros: vida y destrucción en la rehabilitación de tierras de Cerrejón
Cerrejón, una de las empresas de minería de carbón más grandes del mundo, produce miles de toneladas de rocas fragmentadas que deben ser retiradas de su sitio original hacia áreas específicamente designadas. Así se forman los botaderos miner…
Despojo a campesinos colombianos a través del crédito rural
El despojo de tierras a través del crédito ha marcado históricamente las relaciones sociales y la distribución de la riqueza. La presente investigación se ocupa de examinar el papel del crédito rural en el despojo de tierras campesinas en Co…
Conectividad y movimiento: principios del derecho que emergen de los cuerpos de agua
Este artículo de investigación recoge parte de mis hallazgos en torno a algunos de los cuerpos de agua de La Mojana bolivarense en Colombia, los cuales pude conocer en medio de mi trabajo de campo etnográfico y gracias al conocimiento expert…
Negociando identidad campesina en el mercado global del café: una historia etnográfica desde la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Este artigo examina como a identidade camponesa é negociada na interseção entre os mercados de cafés especiais, dispositivos de competitividade e arranjos sociomateriais na Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. A partir de uma experiência etnográfic…
Restoring coexistence with cultural keystone species: Lessons from Blackfoot-led buffalo restoration
Re-establishing society’s ability to coexist with wildlife species that were historically extirpated presents a critical challenge for reintroduction. Tribal-led efforts across North America aim to restore American Buffalo (Bison bison) as an ecologica…
Elephant taking the lion’s share: Political ecology of elephant conservation and human-elephant conflict in Eastern India
This article explores the more-than-human political ecology of human-elephant conflict in North Bengal, India, by emphasizing Asian elephants’ (Elephas maximus) agency within a complex conservation landscape. Through a combination of ethnographic field…
“Nothing is simple”. An ethnographic theory and its history
This lecture was given on April 16th, 2026, at St Andrews University, as the 2nd Peter Gow Memorial Lecture. Its aim is not only to pay tribute to a great anthropologist who died prematurely, but also to explore a fundamental aspect of his work. Na…
A pedra da aldeia: reativações waiwai entre a antropologia e a arqueologia de longa duração
O artigo analisa um episódio ocorrido na comunidade waiwai do Jatapuzinho, na Terra Indígena Trombetas-Mapuera, envolvendo o encontro do professor Renato Kanhera Waiwai com um antigo Pote de Pedra encontrado às margens do rio Jatapuzinho durante um…
El amor en los tiempos del caucho. Pactos matrimoniales y trabajo coercitivo entre awajún y patrones en la Amazonía peruana
Este trabajo presenta un análisis etnohistórico de los cambios en la jefatura awajún del Alto Marañón a inicios del siglo XX, centrándose en sus relaciones de dependencia, poder y trabajo forzoso con los comerciantes mestizos, en su mayoría patrone…
“Ese dia que se va el patron an hecho fiesta”.* Historicities of successful resistance against hacienda bosses among the Kukama (Peru, 1933-1945)
This paper analyzes two cases of resistance by Kukama workers within the debt slavery system of habilitación in the Peruvian Amazon during the first half of the twentieth century. It discusses the similarities and differences between the two cases,…
Making noise through law: Indigenous legal mobilisation against a power plant in “French” Guiana
In so-called “French” Guiana, or Guyane, the Kali’na village of Atopo Wipi has fought for years against a hydrogen power plant being built on their land. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2024 in Guyane and Western Europe…
On the brink of silence: ethnographic perspectives on hunting and forest life among the Awa Guajá in Eastern Amazonia
The central theme of this article basically resides in the relationship established by indigenous peoples between their hunting practices and the forest. Indigenous ways of connecting ‘hunting’ and ‘forest’ necessarily pass through other modes of k…
Between the root and the stem: on women-plant relations, predation and familiarisation among the Awajún (Upper Amazonas, Peru)
What to do with the problem of predation? This is not only a conundrum for anthropologists working in what has become known as animist societies. The gardening activities of the Awajún people of northern Peru’s high jungle are modelled on the teach…
Making kinship with plants and the multiple meanings of care in Amazonian Indigenous gardens
This paper focuses on the bonds of kinship and care between humans, cultivated plants, and other-than-human beings in Indigenous gardens, myths, rituals, and shamanism, across Lowland South America. Drawing on Krahô ethnography and a review of ethn…
Territorialization-from-below: Community-rooted strategies towards public authority in Kamoethway, Myanmar
This article analyses territorialization ‘from-above’ and ‘from-below’ in Kamoethway, Tanintharyi Region in relation to the public authorities of the Karen National Union (KNU) and changing Myanmar governments. Fieldwork in Karen villages of the Kamoet…
“Several things have to come together”: The liminality of solar energy development in San Luis Valley, Colorado
As the aquifers beneath the San Luis Valley hit new lows, farmers and ranchers in this agricultural hub of southern Colorado are being encouraged to fallow their fields. With water scarcity as a push factor and renewable energy mandates as a pull facto…
Wilder landscapes, shifting powers: The political ecology of rewilding in Zambia
Rewilding is increasingly popular as a new paradigm for conservation, advocating the return of an autonomous nature, the ‘wild’, in closer coexistence with people. This approach resonates with transboundary conservation initiatives like the Kavango-Zam…
Opening up degrowth imaginaries with historical political ecology: Collectivization of tramways during the anarchist revolution in Barcelona (1936–1939)
Research on degrowth has developed a strong conceptual vocabulary for envisioning alternatives, centered on life-making and collective autonomy within ecological and societal limits. Looking into the past and engaging with anarchism, we argue, can furt…
Longing for a flow: Nostalgia, restoration, and politics in the Zayandehrud River, Iran
This article examines nostalgia and its political force around the Zayandehrud River in central Iran. Once seen as perennial and life-giving, the river is now dry for much of the year, turning its absent flow into an object of longing. This reflects a …
Making knowledge and making wilderness: The politics of introducing the social sciences into conservation in the Manu National Park, Perú
Conservation interventions have historically been guided by Western ontologies and epistemologies that separate humans from nature. Reflecting this, the natural sciences have been dominant in decision-making related to conservation, while the social sc…
Land, violent conflicts and migration: Identifying regimes of dispossession in the Sahel
This article questions dominant narratives that attribute conflicts and migration in the Sahel primarily to factors such as ethnicity, climate change, or poverty. Instead, we highlight land dispossession as a central, yet insufficiently examined, drive…
Review of Paolo Bocci. 2024. Viable ecologies: Conservation and coexistence on the Galápagos Islands.
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