Centro Maria Sibylla Merian
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.
The aim of this 6-volume handbook-project “The Anthropocene as a Multiple Crisis. Perspectives from Latin America” that is edited by the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) is to systematize the multifaceted environmental crises which reached and passed the planetary boundaries of the earth-systems and led to the new geological time of the Anthropocene from Latin American and social sciences and humanities standpoints.
The dialogical exchange between researchers on an equal footing is a basic normative principle of the academic field. Differentiations within the field result from academic recognition and merits. As democratic as this ideal may sound, the academic landscape is also permeated by multiple, intersectional inequalities, discrimination, and exclusionary mechanisms. There is often still a gulf that is rooted in a historically developed colonial geopolitics of knowledge particularly between the Global North and the Global South.
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Salvador Allende gana las elecciones presidenciales en Chile un 4 de septiembre de 1970 en medio de una gran tensión política que despierta el interés mundial por lo que se conoció entonces como “la vía chilena al socialismo”.
Reflections on Africa and the Anthropocene: Climate Change Adaptation Practices in Rural Ghana
As is well known, Latin America is characterized by historically persistent social inequality, which is very high compared to other regions of the world. While scientific efforts in recent years have increasingly focused on the consequences of this scenario for marginalized and poor populations, the constitution and concentration of wealth in the hands of a small economic elite remain largely unexplored. The CALAS research group "Study of Wealth and Elites" comprehensively examines the composition of wealth and the role of elites in Latin America.
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