Environment, Society and Development in Latin America

06/07/2022

After some months of silence, the ESDLA blog has a new post. This time Dr. Jasmin Immonen gave us her reflections on the CEISAL conference held in Helsinki last June 2022.

Let’s ask uncomfortable questions about the North-South relations. Latin America and Finland on focus during CEISAL

01/12/2021

If you miss it, in the virtual "Conversatorio Género y Territorio," our colleague Violeta Gutiérrez Zamora presented a synthesis in Spanish of her article recently published in Geoforum: The coloniality of neoliberal biopolitics: gender mainstreaming in community forestry in Oaxaca, Mexico.

The three women scholars reflected on the deployment of gender relations in space and territory, gender violence, and unequal distribution to land and mobility within space and rural territories.

05/11/2021

We are very proud of our colleague, friend, and now Dr., Mariana Galvão Lyra. Today she defended her PhD dissertation: Against the plunder of our ores: the anti-mining movement in Brazil between 2013-2017.

Congratulations from ESDLA members for your work and your excellent defense!! 🥳👏🎓

05/11/2021

It is today!!! Our colleague Mariana Galvao Lyra will have her defense at 12. You can join remotely and see the streamed event!

Dissertation Economy and society Environment and natural resources Event date: 5.11.2021 Time: 12:00–15:00 Event location: Metria, M100, Joensuu Campus Additional information: Streamed event Add to calendar: Google Outlook iCal The doctoral dissertation of Mariana Galvão Lyra, MSc, entitled Again...

12/10/2021

Our colleague Dr. Hanna Laako shared with us an interview with the researcher Georgina Sánchez-Ramírez (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico) and co-author of their newly published book Midwives in Mexico: Situated Politics, Politically Situated (2021).

Interview about the newly published book Midwives in Mexico: Situated Politics, Politically Situated

08/10/2021

FYI!!

Call for applications: Buscadoras Research Unit

The Buscadoras Research Unit (BRU) was created in the Fall of 2020 by Professor Claudio Lomnitz in conjunction with graduate students Greg Odum and Mónica Trigos, and Professor Mónica Castillejos of the University of California-Berkeley Law School. The BRU is a team of student and faculty volunteers, organized with the objective of supporting missing persons' organizations operating in Mexico and Central America today. Last year, graduate student BRU members Monica Trigos (SIPA) and Greg Odum (Anthropology), along with Alex Gil (Columbia University Library), were awarded with a Magic Grant from the Brown Institute of the Journalism School of Columbia University for their proposal "Bridging the Search: Buscadoras Documentation Project (https://brown.stanford.edu/portfolio/bridging-the-search/). This is intended to work with family members and solidarity groups that are organizing in Mexico to search for the +90,000 who have been disappeared and gone missing. Its mission is to build a website and generate forms of communication and collaboration to support these efforts on the ground in Mexico. The Center for Mexican and Central American Studies will continue to support the Buscadoras Research Unit second year working on disappearances in Mexico.

This is a call for applications for PhD, MA, and undergraduate students to apply to work as members of the Buscadoras Research Unit (BRU). If you are interested in applying please see the attached document for a description and fill out the google form by October 10, 11:59 pm EST: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfubnZstwTfM9pHhE7RDZPz6NUd3CZ314GjLOoWB8C0_49RCA/viewform

We are looking for students with experience and training in anthropology, history, policy, political science, sociology, journalism, and other related fields. We're also looking for people with experience and know-how when it comes to digital editing, data organization, and website design. At least a conversational level of Spanish is needed.

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to [email protected] and/or [email protected]

08/10/2021

We are happy to announce to you that our colleague and friend MSc. Mariana Galvão Lyra will defend her doctoral dissertation next November 5th, 2021. It would be great you can join us. You can find more information here:

The doctoral dissertation in the field of Environmental Policy will be examined at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies at Joensuu Campus and streamed live.

14/09/2021

Our colleague Anna Marjaana Heikkinen has published a new article! Check it!

Climate vulnerabilities in the Peruvian Andes are not only a question of natural hazards but are also shaped by uneven power relations.

16/08/2021

We're starting a new academic year. Our colleagues Violeta Gutiérrez Zamora and Jasmin Immonen will hold a new virtual course at the UniPID - Finnish University Partnership for International Development. Registration starts today! Check it here:

The course introduces literature on critical development studies and civic activism to familiarise and understand the colonial legacy of development studies, decolonial thinking, and current debates on knowledge and practices in the field.

28/06/2021

We want to share a new blog post from our colleague and PhD candidate at UNAM, Mexico, Lidia González Malagón. She reflects on the dilemmas behind traveling from Mexico to the USA for vaccines+vacations. This is the last post before our summer break. We hope you all keep safe and enjoy this reflection!

by Lidia Malagón* “What would you have done?” It is a famous phrase of former Mexican president Peña Nieto, repeated today sarcastically when we talk about dilemmas. Who to vaccinate first? Is the decision to “not get vaccinated” valid? Is it okay to travel from Mexico or Colombia to the U...

28/05/2021

Dr. Germán A. Quimbayo Ruiz's article on the rootcauses of Colombia's on going social unrest is now also available in Finnish in Versuslehti. Thank you Germán for your willingness to contribute in Versus and for the trust to translate your important text in Finnish.

Kolumbiassa huhtikuun lopussa alkanut kansallinen lakko on jatkunut jo kuukauden päivät. Maan hallituksen eriarvoistavaa politiikkaa ja poliisiväkivaltaa vastustavat mielenilmaukset ovat vaatineet kymmenien ihmisten hengen.

20/05/2021

Thanks to all the people who participated in our virtual roundtable. If you miss it, you can find the recording and info in our blog.

In this round table, we have invited several Latin American researchers based in Finland to discuss how the Finnish media has displayed the consequences of the pandemic in LAC countries.