It was such a pleasure to participate in “Amazônia at the Crossroads: Setting an Agenda for Transdisciplinary Research of Consequence” these past few days. Many thanks to Dr. Jeremy Campbell and the team of George Mason University’s Institute for a…
I had an amazing time partaking in the twin panel “Ethnographies of Vertical & Volumetric Ecologies” at the American Anthropological Association Conference 2023 in Toronto. I had the opportunity to both present a paper and serve as a discussant to…
I am very glad to be participating of this panel on November 8th 2023 at USC’s Center for Law, History & Culture. The panel will bring together speakers from all over Latin America that are working from various angles on…
On April 17th 2023, we wrapped up the Mellon Sawyer Precarious Ecologies Seminar with a wonderful panel where we thought about the political lives of lithium, solar power, uranium and other emerging protagonists of the green energy transition. Thank you…
During April 13th-15th 2023, I had the chance to participate in the second meeting of the Future of Facts in Latin America working group. The meeting took place at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center in the wonderful Catalina Island,…
“La Amazonía es aún tierra sin geografía y sin historia estables. Es un mundo de constante renovación, donde los ríos cambian todos los días de lecho, la inundación transforma incesantemente el perfil de las tierras y la huella del hombre…
The fluvial space of Amazonia is articulated by a constellation of streams, creeks and rivers that, in their meandering and irregular flow from the Andes towards the Atlantic, gradually weave into each other and, ultimately, converge and feed into the…
1909. The Peruvian section of the Pan-American railroad. At a time when automobiles were still not as ubiquitous as today (Peru’s first imported car arrived to the port of Callao just in 1904), railroads were the quintessential means for producing…
“Ahora, si atendemos á la índole de sus habitantes, podemos decir lo siguiente: el loretano, desde que nace, va al río. De niño, sus juegos y entretenimientos se relacionan todos con la navegación; los padres tallan, para sus hijos, canoas…
“El resto de la Republica no tiene ninguna relacion comercial con el departamento y solo hoy se inicia una pequeña corriente entre Lima e Iquitos, el que ha comenzado a importar de la capital: cigarrillos, fosforos y aguardientes, artículos que…