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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco

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visiting researcher - currently applying to jobs || working with Indigenous communities in post-disaster contexts on food, plants, and (im)mobilities || a feminist geographer & decolonial scholar || yucateca

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Dec 26

📢 #PublicationAlert

Happy to share that my paper "Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatan" has just been published in Gender, Place & Culture!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatán

Following decolonial and feminist geographic perspectives, in this paper I look at the everyday (re)productive work of Maya women in their home-gardens in the Peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico. Building...

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Aug 2

Estas recetas, los recuerdos y el trabajo diario hacen posible la continuidad de las formas de vida mayas en Chuk Muk, Guatemala, tras un reasentamiento por desastre.

¡Que disfruten cocinando!

doi.org/10.2218/ED.9...

Mujeres Tz’utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk | Edinburgh Diamond | Books

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Aug 2

Este libro de recetas es parte del @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social en la Universidad de Edimburgo.

Como parte de "Recetas para la Recuperación", nos comprometimos a documentar las tradiciones agroalimentarias en el trabajo de las mujeres mayas tz'utujiles.

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Mujeres Tz’utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk | Edinburgh Diamond | Books

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Aug 2

¡Nuestro recetario por fin está listo!

Este libro surge del trabajo colectivo del proyecto "Recetas para la Recuperación" (2023-2025), una propuesta de investigación-acción feminista, transformadora y decolonial.

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Portada del libro de recetas "Mujeres Tz'utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk".

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Jul 29

Our recipe book is finally published! Have a look at some of the recipes from Tz'utujil Maya women from our "Recipes for Recovery" project.
This work was part of my contribution to the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social based at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social as a postdoc.
Thank you all who contributed! 🌱

Edinburgh Diamond @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social · Jul 29

We are pleased to share our latest #OA book, 'Mujeres Tz’utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk'.

This recipe book is part of a transformative feminist & decolonial project that documents the agri-food traditions within the work of Tz'utujil Maya women.

books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

An image of a lake with trees and mountains wafts up from a cooking pot being stirred by a spoon.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Jun 26

This is part of the research project "Recipes for Recovery: The Case of Tz'utujil Women in a Post-Disaster Context in Guatemala," which I led from 2023 to 2025. I will soon be sharing the digital version, while we will deliver printed versions to the Ixqii' Ajtz'utjilaa' and the team.

Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Jun 26

Almost there! We are finishing our collaborative book between a group of Tz'utujil women in Guatemala and a small team from the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social. This book brings together some of the everyday food recipes of this group of women who were resettled to a new town after a disaster.

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Grist @grist.org · Jun 25

A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is.

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#App #Food #Agriculture #Farms #FoodSystems #Climate

A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is

A “first of its kind" tool could help untangle the complex global web of food supply chains and make it more resilient to climate shocks.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Jun 13

On this day in 1954, the United States orchestrated a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive and democratically-elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · May 27

In case you missed our book launch, here's the link to the recorded version!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqXt...

Unfortunately, I couldn't be there for the live event, but you can see a pre-recorded presentation of my chapter :)

Thank you to the editors and other authors of the book!

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Mongabay Latam @mongabaylatam.bsky.social · May 14

🇲🇽🔎 La degradación ambiental que enfrenta Quintana Roo, el único estado del Caribe que tiene #México, es alarmante. Ciudadanos y colectivos presentaron cuatro iniciativas que buscan regular el crecimiento urbano sin control en la zona. tinyurl.com/26k34ecc

Al rescate del Caribe mexicano: ciudadanos proponen leyes para frenar impactos ambientales del avance inmobiliario en Quintana Roo

Ante la degradación ambiental en Quintana Roo, ciudadanos presentaron iniciativas de leyes para regular el crecimiento urbano sin control.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · May 6

Wondering why my brain feels like 🫠...

Severe weather alert for excesive heat in Mérida.

Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Apr 28

My paper "Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatán" is now in a published issue of Gender, Place & Culture!
Have a look here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3...
#FeministGeographies #MayaWomen

Gender, Place & Culture

Volume 32, Issue 5 of Gender, Place & Culture

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Apr 24

Book available now!
Do ask your universities to get a copy 😅

Link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Mar 27

Coming soon!
tinyurl.com/3md7ty83

In this chapter, I analyse the construction and strengthening of biocultural territories in the Yucatán Peninsula, focusing on the practices and experiences within solares (home gardens) as geographical and symbolic spaces.

#decolonial #wayoflife #MayaPeople

Building biocultural territoriesin the Solares of the Yucatán Peninsul

The solar is the basic territorial unit for peninsular Maya families, where their traditional ways of life endure, intertwining nature and culture. In this

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Apr 21

When you admire someone's work (and cite them) and one day they contact you directly to ask for copies of your paper and PhD thesis because they are interested in reading them 😀✨🤓

Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Apr 14

Life is always getting in the way of plans! 💜

Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Mar 27

Building biocultural territoriesin the Solares of the Yucatán Peninsul

The solar is the basic territorial unit for peninsular Maya families, where their traditional ways of life endure, intertwining nature and culture. In this

tinyurl.com

Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Mar 20

With a decolonial approach, I question the development demanded by modernity for the peninsular region and reinforce the alternatives proposed by local Indigenous populations and organisations for the correlated wellbeing of peoples and territories.

Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Mar 20

In my chapter "Building biocultural territories in the Solares of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico", I analyse the construction, recovery, and strengthening of the biocultural territories of the Peninsula of Yucatán from the practices and experiences in the solares, as geographic and symbolic spaces.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Mar 20

Save the date!
Join me and the editors and fellow co-authors of the book "Territorial Development in Latin America Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions" at the online book launch organised by the RSA.
21 May 2025
16.00 BST
Registration: lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...

Book cover "Territories and Development in Latin America. Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions"

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · Mar 8

♀️🌍 #InternationalWomensDay reminds us WOMEN FEED THE WORLD!

Women produce 60% of food in the Global South—yet are denied land, finance & power.

“If we don’t get more gender equality in #foodsystems, we’ll keep skewing toward profit—away from sustainability & feeding people.”
#IWD2025

WOMEN GROW, COOK & SUSTAIN OUR FOOD. IT'S TIME TO RECOGNIZE THEM

YouTube video by IPES-Food

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Mar 8

Aww thank you for sharing! ✨

Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Mar 7

Thank you, Sharon. That's very kind of you. (And what can I say, it feels hopeless indeed!)

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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · Mar 3

Check out the 1st article in our special issue on Community Voices in #JournalofAppliedVolcanology by Ailsa Naismith: 'Illustrating Fuego' #volcano which documents local people's experiences of Fuego's #eruptions. Read it now👇🌋🏘️🎨

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Figure 7 from Naismith et al. 2025 in Journal of Applied Volcanology, illustrating the process of producing a zine page on local people's experiences of Fuego's eruptions.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · Feb 23

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Feb 24

(and visit me for a few days! 💜)

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