Centro Maria Sibylla Merian
Paula Soto Villagrán holds a Master's and Doctorate in Anthropological Sciences from the UAM-Iztapalapa, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Human Geography. She currently works as a professor and researcher in the Department of Sociology of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at that institution, participating in the area of Space and Society. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNII) level 2.
Michele Ferris Dobles is a professor and researcher in communication and documentary filmmaking at the University of Costa Rica. Her research focuses on the intersections between communication technologies, media infrastructures, and human mobility.
Lucrecia Saltzmann Gagneten holds a PhD in Anthropology from the National University of Rosario (Argentina) and a Master's degree in Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Ecuador). For a decade, she worked as a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), where she developed her doctoral thesis, which focused on analyzing the capital-labor relationship from a gender perspective.
The Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) and the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS) invite outstanding scholars from Latin America and the Caribbean to undertake research projects for a total of six months—four months in Hamburg and two months at the University of Kassel, Germany.
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Throughout the history of the Americas, sentiments toward the environment have been problematized and aestheticized through visual representations in various formats. In this volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis«, sixty entries examine the crises of mining, energy, land use, biodiversity, water, and climate change in the major macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial period to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene, featuring iconic images from this context.
Beatriz Véliz Argueta is a historian and storyteller whose work explores how landscapes, mobility, and cross-cultural encounters shape systems of knowledge and belonging. She holds a PhD from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and an MA from the Global Studies Programme (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Jawaharlal Nehru University).
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