Environment

SECTION SPONSORED SESSIONS:

1.  Environment Section Sponsored Panel 1:

"Territories, bodies and alternative epistemologies: reimagining modernity from below."

@ 1:45 pm- 3:15 pm
West Meeting room 202 & Virtual

Chair & Discussant: Linda Etchart, L.Etchart@kingston.ac.uk, Kingston University London
Presentations/Presenters:
1. Organizarnos en la tormenta. Mujeres indígenas desplegando insurgencias femeninas para la defensa de sus cuerpos-territorios-tierra frente a la neocolonización en la frontera de Chiapas
Delmy Tania Cruz Hernández, Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica (CESMECA);
2. Communities of Life, Reciprocity, and indigenous Organic Coffee Production: A Permanent Struggle for a Clean production and a Healthy Environment.
Consuelo Guayara Sánchez, University of Iowa;
3. Disruptive Weather or, Climate and the Nature/s of Racial Justice
Mareike Winchell, University of Chicago;
4. Contesting Inevitability: Transmodern Ecologies of Lake Atitlan
Elizabeth Pettinaroli, Rhodes College;
Session Organizer: Maria Alessandra Woolson, Maria.Woolson@uvm.edu, University of Vermont

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2. Environment Section Sponsored Workshop:

Emerging Issues in Latin American Environmental Research

@ 10:15 am- 11:45 am
West Meeting room 202 & Virtual

Chair: Maria Alessandra Woolson, Maria.Woolson@uvm.edu, University of Vermont

Presenter: Joel Correia, University of Florida Center for L.A. Studies
Presenter: Gabriela Dongo Arévalo, Academic
Presenter: María Inés Nieves, Universidad Iberoamericana
Presenter: Patricia Viera Duarte, Universidad de la República (UdelaR)
Presenter: Laura Cucchi, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Presenter: Veronica Gonzalez, University of California – Irvine

Session Organizer: Linda Etchart, L.Etchart@kingston.ac.uk, Kingston University London

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3. Environment Section RoundTable:

"CONO SUR and thinking creatively to mobilize for socio-ecological transformation"

@ 8:30 am- 10:00 am
West Meeting room 202 & Virtual

Chair: Maria Alessandra Woolson, Maria.Woolson@uvm.edu, University of Vermont
Presenters:
1. Johanna Höhl, Heidelberg Center Latin America;
2. Mayarí Castillo, Centro de Economía y Políticas Sociales - Universidad Mayor
3. Alejandro Retamal Maldonado, Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo Regional y Políticas Públicas - Universidad de Los Lagos
4. Paula Serafini, Queen Mary University of London;
5. Maria Alessandra Woolson, Maria.Woolson@uvm.edu, University of Vermont

Session Organizer: Linda Etchart, L.Etchart@kingston.ac.uk, Kingston University London

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4. Environment Section Sponsored Panel 2:

"The human right to a healthy environment under threat: extractive industries, weakened democratic representation and organized crime in Latin America"

@ 12:00 pm- 1:30 pm
West Meeting room 202 & Virtual

Chair: Maria Alessandra Woolson, Maria.Woolson@uvm.edu, University of Vermont

Presenters:

1. Environmental Damage of Organized Crime - Virtual participation.
Mark Ungar, Graduate Center, City University of New York;
2. Intersections of Environmental Violence and Precarious Indigenous Land Rights in Latin American Extractives
Maiah Jaskoski, Northern Arizona University;
3. Climate Displacement and Organized Crime in Latin America
Bernardo Bolaños Guerra, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, University of Toronto
4. Global organized crime and the extractive industries in Ecuador
Linda Etchart, L.Etchart@kingston.ac.uk, Kingston University London;
Session Organizer: Maria Alessandra Woolson, Maria.Woolson@uvm.edu, University of Vermont

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SECTION SUPPORTED SESSIONS:

"Ecofeminist Imaginations in Latin American Cultural Production."

@ 12:00pm - 01:30pm.

Presenters:
1. Jessica E. Jones, Princeton University;
2. Carolyn Fornoff, Cornell University;
3. Catalina Arango Correa, Princeton University;
4. Nicolas Campisi, Georgetown University.

"Actividades ilícitas y organizaciones criminales como principales amenazas en contra de defensores indígenas y ambientales en Perú, Colombia, y Brasil."

@ 12:00pm - 01:30pm.

Presenters:
1. Christine Hunefeldt, UC-San Diego;
2. Vanessa Torres, Universidad de Los Andes / Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad.;
3. Julia Neiva Mello, CONECTAS;
4. Carlos Quispe Dávila, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú / DAR.
Moderator: Elena Alvarez – USMP.
Discussant: Cesar Gamboa, Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales DAR.

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- CALL for proposals

We invite our memers to send us their proposals by September 2nd in order to assmble the sessions and submit them in a timely manner before the congress' call closes on September 8th at 5:00 pm US Eastern time

1. A Panel:

This panel is meant to align thematically with the Congress' topic Pensar, Representar y Luchar por los Derechos (click on link for the call's description). An alignment of socio-environmental issues and the challenge of defending collective and individual rights in the region has been a frequent topic of research among our session's members, so we are not narrowing down the thematic reach of the panel at this time. A title will be selected once we receive proposals. This session will accommodate 4-5 presenters.

2. Our usual Workshop:

"Emerging Issues in Latin American Environmental Research," that accommodates roughly 8-10 presenters. This is a relatively informal format in which participants are encouraged to briefly present their current research without a paper, to enable discussion, feedback, questions, and dialogue.

3. A Round Table:

also meant to align with the Congress' theme Pensar, Representar y Luchar por los Derechos (click on link for the call's description), the round table, rather than traditional presentations as in a panel, is an opportunity to connect the diverse works of presenters into a common thread that can foster a conversation or collective/creative analysis and engages the audience. As such, each presenter's intervention is shorter and seeks to find connections with others in order to engage the audience in a multi-presenter conversation. Once again, a focused title will be selected once we receive proposals. This will accommodate 4-5 presenters.