I’ll be sharing in-progress research at this research seminar as part of my time as Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC California, Berkeley, where I’m working with Prof. Michael Mascarenhas.
I’m going to be talking about the expanding map of coalitions forming across Latin America that are connecting Indigenous knowledges, conservation efforts, activism, pedagogy and biocultural actions to protect the region’s bodies of water. In this context, I’ll look at how artists are contributing to denaturalizing sociocultural discourses and imaginaries that frame water as commodity.
We’ll spend time thinking with artworks by Carolina Caycedo and Regina José Galindo that confront intersectional injustices and inequitable distributions of power in the governance of nature and people to interrogate how they produce unjust hydrosocial orders
ESPM Fall Seminar Series 2024