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Volume: Images of the Anthropocene

From the Colonial Period until now, sentiment toward the environment in the American continent has been problematized and aestheticized through visual representations conceived in various formats. We propose a volume of specialized essays with images carefully selected as active agents in order for experts to develop alternative reflections about crises of mining, energy, forests, agriculture, biodiversity, water, and climate change in Latin American contexts.

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Simposio internacional: Riqueza, poder y naturaleza

Desde la colonización, la explotación y exportación de materias primas ha sido una constante en la historia de América Latina. Los ingresos de los recursos naturales han despertado esperanzas y expectativas de desarrollo económico. Sin embargo, estas fantasías de desarrollo no han cumplido la mayoría de las expectativas. Cabe preguntarse entonces ¿Sirve el extractivismo, la explotación de los recursos naturales para combatir la enorme desigualdad en la región? ¿O, de lo contrario, potencia las disparidades y la concentración de la riqueza en manos de pocos?

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Christian Büschges

Christian Büschges is full professor of Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Bern (Switzerland). His research areas include (postcolonial) perspectives on Latin America in a global context, nobility and elites in Latin America (18th-19th centuries) and the Viceroyal Courts of the Spanish Monarchy (16th-17th centuries).

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Maria del Carmen de la Peza Casares

Maria del Carmen de la Peza Casares is a distinguished professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco. She is a member of the National System of Researchers, level III and is a founding member of AMIC (Mexican Association of Communication Researchers). She has been deputy director of CONACyT. She is currently working on issues of music, culture and politics, language policy in Mexico, horizontal research methodologies and discourse analysis.

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