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MIÉRCOLES, 26 de mayo
9-10:45am EASTERN PANEL: A PLURALITY OF PRACTICES: URGENT APPROACHES TO AMAZONIA Organizer: Riccarda Flemmer, University of Hamburg Chair: Martina Broner, Dartmouth College Abstract: The second edition of this panel organized by LASA’s Amazonia Section brings together members from the social sciences and humanities to address urgent challenges facing the Amazon. A transnational region whose critical condition has global consequences, Amazonia is often represented as an untamed wilderness in need of preservation or development. With this panel, we showcase perspectives that both acknowledge how interactions between human and non-human entities have shaped the forest over thousands of years of history and that engage with debates surrounding the ongoing socio-environmental crisis. As threats to coexistence and plurality in the region increase with the conservative wave that has taken hold i n Latin America, how can scholars, activists, artists , or other knowledge producers provide alternatives? What type of responses result from a disciplinary or interdisciplinary focus? Beyond—or perhaps in conjunction with—academia, what kind of approaches emerge from diverse practices, from activism to art? Presentations: 1. Environmental Crime and Enforcement in The Amazon Basin, Mark Ungar (The Graduate Center CUNY) 2. Paz con la Selva, Kristina Van Dexter (George Mason University) 3. The conflicting hierarchization of nature: legislation, authoritarianism and traditional populations in the Amazon during the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1988), Santiago Andrade (Universidade Federal de Rondônia) 4. Entre humano y no humano: la cosmovisión amazónica en murales de Amazonarte Perú, Katia Yoza Mitsuishi (Rutgers) 5. Parana Marañún tsawa: una propuesta activista radial desde el alma del río Marañón, Ana Varela Tafur (Independent researcher) 1-2:45pm EASTERN INTER-SECTION PANEL WITH ERIP: ONE AMAZONIA, MANY ONTOLOGIES: INTERCULTURALITY AND CRISIS Organizer: Lucas Savino, Huron University Chair: Amanda M. Smith, UC Santa Cruz Abstract: The Amazon region is a key geographical and cultural area for interdisciplinary research—science debates over climate change and resource extraction are increasingly engaging with spirituality, the rights of nature, and Indigenous peoples' ontologies. By conceiving culture from individual diversities but also from pluralities and in-betweens, this joint panel sponsored by LASA's ERIP and Amazonia Sections aims to contribute to the reflexive discussion of interculturality and crisis. Contributions focus on interdisciplinary trajectories and cross-culture analysis, seeking to engage diverse audiences from disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. We hope to open discussion about the ways in which race relations have shaped ideas about “crisis” in Amazonian Indigenous peoples' lands. Such areas are historically and constantly threatened by religious, political and private groups. What types of crisis (conceptually and in practice) have such relations generated over time? Can different groups and cultures co-exist in an atmosphere that encourages both better inter-ethnic understanding and interculturalism? How could national and international policies and understandings reflect diverse ontologies and the recognition of both differences and similarities between cultures? Presentations 1. Presupposed Natives’ Worlds and Corporations’ Worlds, Margarita Huayhua (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) 2. Maroon Ontologies and Resistance in Suriname, Simon Lobach (IHEID) 3. Between Words and Worlds: Indigenous Interpreters in the “Ontological Politics” of Prior Consultation about Hydrocarbon Extraction in Peruvian Amazonia, Riccarda Flemmer (University of Hamburg, GIGA Hamburg) 4. Un mundo no tan perdido: Conservación y neocolonialismo en la Serranía de Chiribiquete, Andrés Obando Orozco (University of Pittsburgh) 5. Global Amazon: International Projections, Regional Arrangements, Indigenous Uprisings, Roger Arturo Merino Acuña (Universidad del Pacífico) 3-4:45pm EASTERN AMAZON CITIES: URBAN PROCESSES AND MORPHOLOGIES Organizer: C. Erik Vergel-Tovar, Universidad de los Andes Chair: Simon Uribe, Universidad del Rosario Presentations 1. Lo urbano en la cartografía de la Amazonia: elementos para pensar la producción del espacio nacional y regional, Jorge Aponte Motta (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) 2. Entre la selva y el río: conflictos y colonizaciones urbanas en la historia de Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo, Simon Uribe (Universidad del Rosario) 3. Ciudades amazónicas y espacios de frontera: examinando el papel del transporte y la movilidad en las dinámicas transfronterizas urbana, C. Erik Vergel-Tovar (Universidad de los Andes) JUEVES, 27 de mayo 1-2:45pm EASTERN EXPERIENCIAS DE GESTIÓN DE LA PANDEMIA DE COVID-19 EN COMUNIDADES CAMPESINAS E INDÍGENAS DE LOS ANDES Y LA AMAZONÍA PERUANA: ACERCAMIENTOS INTERDISCIPLINARIOS Organizer: Emmanuelle Piccoli (Université catholique de Louvain) Chairs: Emmanuelle Piccoli (Université catholique de Louvain); Deborah Delgado (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) Discussant: Timothy M. Thomson (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) 1."Nuestra fuerza awajún está haciendo que no nos quedemos en cenizas” Experiencias y respuestas awajún frente a la COVID-19 en el distrito de El Cenepa, Maria Ximena X. Flores Rojas (Universidade Feredal de Rio de Janeiro) 2. Entre la emergencia y la moral humanitaria: Historia y economía política de la salud indígena amazónica en el Perú, Julio C. Portocarrero (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru); Karina Rojas Salvador (Independent Scholar) 3. COVID-19: Construyendo propuestas de apoyo desde los espacios académicos. Experiencia del GIPC. Apoyo Técnico al MINSA, Miryam R. Rivera Holguin (PUCP); Tesania E. Velázquez (PUCP) 4. Estrategias familiares y comunitarias ante la crisis de salud de la pandemia de la COVID-19 en la región de Cusco (Perú), Eric Arenas Sotelo (Universidad Andina del Cusco /PUCP); Emmanuelle Piccoli (Université catholique de Louvain) 5. Networked Indigenous Response to the Pandemic in the Peruvian Amazon: The case of Ucayali, Deborah Delgado (PUCP) 3-4:45pm EASTERN EL AUMENTO DE LAS DESIGUALDADES EDUCATIVAS EN LA AMAZONÍA EN LA INTERSECCIÓN DE LAS EMERGENCIAS SOCIOECONÓMICAS, AMBIENTALES y DE SALUD Organizer: Tuija M. Veintie (University of Helsinki) Chair: Tuija M. Veintie (University of Helsinki) Discussant: Paola Minoia (University of Helsinki) 1. Desafíos de estudiantes y profesores en el acceso a la educación superior en la Universidad Estatal Amazónica Ecuatoriana, Ruth-Irene R. Arias-Gutierrez 2. Diseñando con estudiantes en tiempos de pandemia: intervenciones participativas para apoyar redes de cuidado en la Amazonía ecuatoriana, Nathaly C. Pinto (AALTO School of Arts, Design and Architecture) 3. Redes de apoyo y solidaridad en contextos educativos: fomentando equidad y ciudadanía, Rosaura Gutierrez Valerio (Instituto Superior de Formación Docent Salomé Ureña) 4. Las (im)posibilidades de la educación virtual en la Amazonía ecuatoriana: repensar la Educación Intercultural Bilingüe en tiempos de pandemia, Tuija M. Veintie, (University of Helsinki); Katy Jacqueline Betancourt Machoa (Independent Scholar) 7-8:45pm EASTERN SECTION BUSINESS MEETING Agenda 1. Welcome/Bienvenida 2. Treasurer Report/Informe de tesorera 3. Prize Committee Update/Informe de Premios 4. Elections/Elecciones 5. Past Activities/Actividades pasadas 6. Future Directions/Direcciones futuras 7. Upcoming Panels/Mesas por venir 8. New business/Negocios nuevos SÁBADO, 29 de mayo 3-4:45pm EASTERN MESA REDONDA: DIÁLOGOS EMERGENTES: RECENT RESEARCH ON AMAZONIA Organizer: Susanna Hecht, UCLA Chair: Amanda M. Smith, UC Santa Cruz Presenters: Susanna Hecht - UCLA, Charlotte Rogers - University of Virginia, Patricia Vieira - Georgetown University, Eve Bratman - American University, Simón Uribe - Universidad del Rosario, Christine Hunefeldt - UC San Diego, Connie Campbell - University of Florida Abstract: This roundtable gathers a multidisciplinary group of scholars whose recently-published works on Amazonia offer fresh perspectives on historical and present-day cultural, ecological, and sociopolitical concerns facing the region. Drawing from the fields of environmental studies, geography, history, and literary studies, this conversation opens space for scholars to discuss current methodological and theoretical approaches to studying Amazonia in a highly interactive question and answer format. The panelists will draw connections between their various modes of inquiry into the complex relationships between humans and non-humans in the region. In addition to questions from the audience, several inquiries will guide this dialogue, including: how do historically-constructed myths and representations of the Amazon continue to shape current epistemologies and politics? How are local human and non-human entities within the Amazon linked to global processes of development and environmental policymaking? What do analyses of the Amazon inform and shape emergent, interdisciplinary fields like ecocriticism, environmental humanities, and political ecology? Ultimately, this roundtable offers a cross-disciplinary dialogue on the current debates and research animating the field of Amazonian studies and illuminates areas for future research. Comments are closed.
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