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Saving The Other Amazon: Changing Understandings Of Nature Andwilderness Among Indigenous Leaders In The Ecuadorian Amazon, Juliet S. Erazo
Saving The Other Amazon: Changing Understandings Of Nature Andwilderness Among Indigenous Leaders In The Ecuadorian Amazon, Juliet S. Erazo
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies
This article examines a new set of policies embraced by indigenous leaders in the Upper Napo region of the Ecuadorian Amazon, driven, in part, by a growing appreciation for “wilderness” —large areas where humans exercise a very light touch. In the past few years, leaders have pursued wilderness conservation initiatives while simultaneously promoting petroleum extraction in their own backyards. Both political positions run counter to those pursued in previous decades, when opposition to both oil development and strict forms of conservation within their territory was strong. To address this reversal, I trace some of the development interventions and North-South collaborations …
Sexual Violence, Race And Media (In)Visibility: Intersectional Complexities In A Transnational Frame, Vrushali Patil, Bandana Purkayastha
Sexual Violence, Race And Media (In)Visibility: Intersectional Complexities In A Transnational Frame, Vrushali Patil, Bandana Purkayastha
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies
Intersectional scholarship argues that women of color have distinct experiences of rape compared to white women and highlights their relative invisibility as victims compared to white women victims in news media. While the bulk of intersectional work has examined such issues within one nation and particularly within the US, in an era of increasingly transnationalized media content, we explore such intersectionalities in a transnational frame. That is, we explore the treatment of the rape of a local Indian woman in New Delhi, India, and the rape of a white woman in Steubenville, USA, in the New York Times and the …
Latino Urban Ethnography And The Work Of Elena Padilla, Jorge Duany
Latino Urban Ethnography And The Work Of Elena Padilla, Jorge Duany
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies
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