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Amazonia Section
Latin American Studies Association Activities Report 2021-2022, Submitted June 2022 Prepared by Riccarda Flemmer, Co-Chair & Deborah Delgado Membership: In our second year as a section we have grown our membership to 118 (109 in 2021) members, and we continue to work on expanding our membership. We are also active on social media with 159 (2021: 97) followers on Facebook and 480 Twitter followers (2021: 375). Business Meeting: We held our business meeting via Zoom on May 6 de mayo de 2022, 18-19:30 Pacific with 9 participants from the U.S., Europe and Latin America. Present: Riccarda Flemmer, Section Co-Chair (outgoing), University of Tübingen, Germany; Deborah Delgado, Section Co-Chair, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Sarah J. Townsend, Section Council Member (outgoing), Penn State University, United States; Victoria Saramago, University of Chicago, United States; Gabriel Suchodolsi, PhD Candidate, UCLA, United States; Ashley Lebner, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; Maritza Paredes, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Carmen Gallegos, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. PhD Candidate, United States; Sandra Ríos Oyola, University of Louvain, Belgium Co-chair Riccarda Flemmer welcomed the section members, greeted them from the incoming officers who could not be present because of scheduling issues (Cecilia Oliveira and Amanda Smith), and warmly thanked the outgoing members of the section Executive Committee. She also gave a summary of section accomplishments in our third year. The Section’s Secretary Jessica Solorzano and the Treasurer Kevin Ennis Broner could neither be present but had sent their reports beforehand and informed us about the current status of the Section’s social media accounts and the financial resources. Co-chair Deborah Delgado summarized the process of the Best Book Award (canceled) and the Best Article Award. In the name of the Best Article Selection Committee and the Executive Committee the winning contributions were honored and their authors were awarded with certificates. Most of the meeting was dedicated to planning for the section’s future scheduling of awards and activities (including possible uses of the Section’s $2400 funds) with the following aims: 1) strengthen the exchange and conjoint work of section members; 2) create support for younger scholars, 3) strengthen and maybe formalize relationships with Amazonian Indigenous, activist and research institutions. Several future initiatives, to achieve our objectives, came out of the meeting, see below. Election Results: The resulting slate of new section officers as of June 1, 2022 is as follows:
The following section officers will remain in their current positions until LASA 2022:
In sum the Amazonia Section leadership as of June 2022 is as follows:
Section Activities Term 2021-2022: In this past year, the Section was very engaged in the activities noted above organizing LASA panels, including creating and distributing the Section’s Newsletter, administration and selection of the Best Article award, maintaining and growing our social media presence and managing the Section’s webpage, and engaging our growing membership in the Section’s activity through our email list.
LASA 2022 (Virtual): The section sponsored two panels at LASA 2022 as well as one joint roundtable together with the Peru section. ○ PANEL 1: Community, Women and Indigenous Resistance to Extractivism (Friday, 6 May 2022 14:00:00 - 15:30h Pacific Time), organizer: Katia Yoza-Mitsuishi (PhD candidate, Rutgers University), chair: Diana Córdoba (Assistant Professor, Queen’s University), discussant: Riccarda Flemmer (University of Tübingen) ○ PANEL 2: Militarization of the Amazon and New Environmental Polarizations (Saturday, 7 May, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Pacific time), organizers and chairs: Maria Cecilia Oliveira & Alexandra Tost, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies - Potsdam, discussant: Deborah Delgado Pugley, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú ○ROUNDTABLE together with the Peru section: Defensores ambientales en la Amazonía peruana: avances y retos (Thursday, 5 de Mayo 2022 14:00 - 15:30 Pacific Time), Organizer: Deborah Delgado; [email protected], Chair: Riccarda Flemmer; [email protected].
Section Awards 2022: In March/ April 2022 we held our second annual Amazonia section best article award and had planned a second annual Amazonia section best book award. The calls for the awards were published in our bimonthly newsletter in January 2022. Book Award: We received only one nomination for best book and decided to cancel the award. Article Award: The best article award received 5 excellent nominations and the review panel decided on April 13. The review panel was composed by scholars from different disciplines and geographic backgrounds: Deborah Delgado Pugley (chair), Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, [email protected]; Riccarda Flemmer (chair), Political Science, University of Tübingen/ Free University Berlin [email protected]; Jorge Marcone, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, Rutgers University, [email protected]; Anne Larson, Principal Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research CIFOR, [email protected]; and Natalia Buitron, Lecturer in the Anthropology of Amazonia, Cambridge University, [email protected]. The winner as well as the author of one honorable mentions were awarded with certificates at our business meeting at the LASA 2022 congress.
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