Centro Maria Sibylla Merian
Mariana Heredia is a sociologist, graduated from the University of Buenos Aires and completed master's and doctoral studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is currently an independent researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research. She is a regular professor and director of the Master's in Economic Sociology at the Institute of High Social Studies of the University of San Martín.
Rosario Figari Layús is a researcher and professor at the Chair of Peace Studies at the Faculty of Law of the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen in Germany. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Marburg in Germany. Previously, she obtained her bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Buenos Aires and a master's degree in social sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Susana Herrero Olarte has a Phd in Applied Economics, coordinates the Center for Economic and Business Research (CIEE) at the University of Las Ámericas (UDLA) in Quito, Ecuador. She participates in the trAndeS research groups, of the Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI) of the Freie Universität Berlin and the I2tic of the Open University of Catalunya (UOC). She has been a consultant for international organizations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia (IDB, World Bank and European Union).
El Centro Maria Sibylla Merian de Estudios Latinoamericanos Avanzados (CALAS, por sus siglas en inglés) convoca a cineastas y realizadores/as audiovisuales a concursar por un financiamiento para la realización de un documental enfocado temáticamente a la percepción de riesgos medioambientales en Latinoamérica, en el marco del Antropoceno.
The dual myths of virgin land to conquer and El Dorado to exploit have been the central images in the imaginary of land usage in Latin American. These metaphors are essential to the understanding of the genealogy of the Anthropocene in the region from the Conquista up to today. We start with the idea that homo sapiens have always altered their habitats.
Since the colonial conquests, societal relationships with nature in many parts of the Americas have been dominated by the extraction of metals and mineral resources. – especially gold, silver, zinc, copper, coal, and oil. The history of the entire continent has been shaped by the flows of extractivism and by making available and extracting (first) human, biomass and (later) fossil energy that enabled and intensified these flows (Topik 2006; Bakewell 1971).
Within the theme of the Anthropocene as multiple crisis, we structure this volume about water around problems that each can encapsulate certain periods of time. Two beliefs brought us to propose this structure. First, both between the ones who first minted the term and the Latin American investigators that use it, it is mutually understood that the Anthropocene began at the end of the 18th century with the creation of the steam engine (i.e.
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