Gisselle Vila Benites
@giviben.bsky.social
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Human-environment geographer. Atkinson Postdoc at Cornell University. Researching informal mining, ethnic communities and reparation ecologies in Latin America. Peruana 🇵🇪 https://cals.cornell.edu/gisselle-vila-benites
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Hello world. Human-Environment Geographer here. My themes are #PoliticalEcology #DevelopmentGeography #AgrarianStudies #IndigenousPeople #NaturalResourceGovernance #InformalMining #LatinAmerica #ActionResearch #ParticipatoryMethods
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Entrevista en “Pequeñas Islas” / @ocramo.bsky.social en donde discutí los retos de la formalización minera en el Perú. Enfaticé que es importante reconocer la profunda heterogeneidad del sector (ejm. Mineria aluvial vs subterránea) y un enfoque de desarrollo territorial. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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El dominical de La Encerrona
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Join Wen as a Policy Campaigner and help us shape UK chemicals regulation through a feminist lens.

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If you’re at #AAG2025 join us tomorrow at the feminist political ecologies of environmental repair panel. We’ll talk about what it entails caring for and repairing relationships with nature. I’ll share my work in progress concerning indigenous perspectives & after-mining transitions in the Amazon.
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What role does Latin America play in critical minerals? My commentary for the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin American Advisor highlights supply countries efforts to balance domestic industrial policies with geopolitical concerns thedialogue.org/latin-americ...
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Gracias por tu coraje! Un fuerte abrazo
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drvanessalamb.bsky.social
Call for applications: 2025 #Myanmar Emerging Scholars and Young Leaders Workshop held at York University forms.gle/T7HGV54dv68d...
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CFP! At the Nordic STS conference this June in Stockholm @emmapdc.bsky.social & I are organising "Towards just pollution interventions: public experiments beyond the lab"

We welcome abstracts from any discipline or practice. Deadline March 1. Reach out for questions www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abs...
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"Towards just pollution interventions: public experiments beyond the lab". 7th Nordic STS Conference: STS in and out of the Laboratory, June 11-13, 2025, Stockholm. See link in post for abstract and organisational details.
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Pienso en cómo especies carismáticas se convierten en representativas de la identidad nacional y en que eso no ha ocurrido con el oso andino en Perú. Muchos acá aún lo ignoran y es más bien por las películas que está siendo reinventado -aún no apropiado, me parece
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eadi.bsky.social
🎧 Liberation Theology in Latin America

Being back from our break, we're starting the year with a new season of our "Hierarchies of Development" Podcast, episode 1 being just released!

🎤 with @ingridhk.bsky.social & Basile Boulay
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S3 Ep1 Liberation theology in Latin America
Hierarchies of Development · Episode
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We chatted about fieldwork in supply chains, differences between more or less charismatic commodities, the relations between language, value and labor, secrecy/transparency, how we attach meaning to our jobs (or not!), and the semiotic and material work of translation
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Is Talk Cheap? Making Palm Oil ‘Sustainable’: A conversation with Montserrat Perez Castro - Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA)
In this episode, Kate and Ariana catch up with Montserrat Pérez Castro in the midst of her fieldwork in Mexico. Transnational food companies and palm oil
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giviben.bsky.social
Estoy contenta de acompañar a las y los jóvenes becarios del Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria (SEPIA) en sus proyectos de investigación. Este 2025 además realizaré la ponencia de balance sobre economías informales e ilegales en el Perú rural.
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The lands of Indigenous and peasant communities in Colombia and Myanmar are being destroyed for extracting 'green' energy resources.

How can we move beyond extractivism and create truly equitable, community-led solutions?

www.tni.org/en/article/m...
giviben.bsky.social
Hello world. Human-Environment Geographer here. My themes are #PoliticalEcology #DevelopmentGeography #AgrarianStudies #IndigenousPeople #NaturalResourceGovernance #InformalMining #LatinAmerica #ActionResearch #ParticipatoryMethods
giviben.bsky.social
Happy to contribute to the Transnational Institute’s “Mining and Just Transitions” conversation series. I was interviewed on informal mining and ethnic communities in the Andes: www.tni.org/en/article/a...

#IndigenousPeoples #BlackCommunities #PoliticalEcology