South America
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From One River to Another
CASAS’ member Juliana Forigua has produced a Video Messages Collection with Catalina Rey-Hernández, Lieke Kiekebosch, Jhonny Vargas, Daniele Tubino de Souza, and Arcadio M. Lanz. From One River to Another is a collection of video messages from people defending the Indrayani River in India, the Magdalena River in Colombia, and the Berkel River in Germany.…
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Who is who in CASAS? Tamara Wattnem
CASAS’ member Tamara A. Wattnem is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Trinity University. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin Madison, where she specialized in the sociology of development, environmental sociology, and critical agrarian studies. Her research explores the politics and implications of the deepening of extractivism in Latin America.
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WEBINAR: pESTICIDES AND INEQUALITES
CASAS’ member Yunan Xu and Soledad Castro are presenting in the webinar “Pesticides and inequalities: health, knowledge and political economy” organized by The Latin-American Network on Pesticides, Health and Environmental Justice. The webinar will be moderated by another CASAS’ member Grettel Navas, and they will be joined by Jean-Noël Jouzel (Sciences Po, Paris), and Rafael…
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Between ‘Liquids’ and ‘Poisons’: Sensory-Practical Rationality within the Social Representations of Pesticide Risk among Chilean Farmworkers
“Between ‘Liquids’ and ‘Poisons’: Sensory-Practical Rationality within the Social Representations of Pesticide Risk among Chilean Farmworkers” is the new article of CASAS’ member Grettel Navas & colleagues in the journal Social Science & Medicine. The article examine how 20 Chilean farmworkers in the Maule Region construct and organise their understanding of occupational pesticide exposure. Pesticides…