How to have narrative‐flipping history in a pandemic: Views of/from Latin America

Birn, Anne‐Emanuelle

doi:10.1111/1600-0498.12310

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“…One aspect of this work denaturalizes disasters and pandemics by showing the colonial provenance of the vulnerabilities that hazards unravel. In so doing, Caribbean thinkers expose the linkages between the social catastrophes in the wake of hazardous events, disease outbreaks, and economic shocks, and Euro-American imperialism (Felima 2009;Baptiste and Rhiney 2016;Lloréns 2018;Hudson 2019;Birn 2020;Perry and Sealey-Huggins 2023).…”

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Modernity's Antillean ecologies: Dispossession, disasters, justice, and repair across the Caribbean archipelago

Moulton

2024

Progress in Environmental Geography

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The Caribbean region has been (re)shaped by colonial transformations of Amerindian ecologies, enslavement of Africans, and Indenture of Asians on plantations designed for European profit. Yet longstanding practices of resistance to human–environmental domination and ecocidal violence have enabled Caribbean people to (re)create and sustain affirmative socio-ecologies. This report reflects on four axes characterizing the contestations over Caribbean environmental geographies: resistance to extractivism and dispossession, denaturalization of disaster, theorizing global ecological justice, and pursuit of repair. The article suggests how Caribbean environmental philosophy and ecocriticism offer analytics for mapping relational geographies beyond Western epistemes of progress and spatial imaginaries that peripheralize the region.

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Section: (Un)natural Disasters and Environmental Subjectivitymentioning

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Modernity's Antillean ecologies: Dispossession, disasters, justice, and repair across the Caribbean archipelago

Moulton

2024

Progress in Environmental Geography

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“…An important difference with other perspectives that seek to understand the same object (such as Dependency Theory or Unequal and Combined Exchanges Theory) is that the disparity between North and South is explained in historical terms, related to persistent colonial relations, so that the territories of the global South tend to be impoverished even today (Litonjua, 2012), i.e., the exploitation of the periphery began at the time of colonization and still exists in terms of trade between central and peripheral countries that constantly favor the center. Therefore, it is inescapable to analyze the power conflicts and historical problems rooted in global political and economic structures (Birn, 2020). Therefore, WST explains structural inequality from a broader historical and spatial framework that links the local to the global given the economic and political relations established by power relations.…”

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Socioenvironmental conflicts under COVID-19 pandemic and the need of historical-sociological perspectives in conservation science

Hirschfeld¹,

Faria²,

Gil³

et al. 2023

Ethnobio Conserv

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The pandemic of COVID-19 caused a global epidemiological, economic and social crisis. In the conservation sciences, several studies have focused efforts on understanding the effects of declining human activities on biodiversity, understanding the pandemic as an anthropogenic "pause"of global scale. But the impact of the pandemic was not the same for everyone. Different impacts are consequences of political and ethical questions about who and what can pause or be paused, according to what authority and under what conditions. Therefore, the historical asymmetrical relations of power in the World System are crucial to understanding environmental impacts and thinking about solutions in the post-pandemic world. This article discusses why historical local-global inequalities should be an indispensable reference variable for examining the different experiences caused by the pandemic in biodiversity, aiming at advancing the discussion about the society-nature relationship that the pandemic has spurred. To do so, we use the World-System Theory, initially proposed by Wallerstein, whose analytical categories allow us to situate nature conservation within broader economic, historical, and contemporary contexts. We argue for the understanding of biodiversity conservation in the context of the historical-sociological and global-local relations of the World-System. Finally, we discuss that the COVID-19 pandemic should be understood as an emergent phenomenon of the society-nature dynamic of the world-system.

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Transnational Events and National Health Reform: The Latin American Medical Congresses and the Legitimisation of Public Health Reforms in Chile and Uruguay in the Early Twentieth Century

Reufels

Huhle

2022

Global Dynamics of Social Policy

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This historical analysis focusses on the first four Latin American Medical Congresses (1901–1909) as transnational marketplaces for ideas and concepts and assesses their importance for the configuration of public health policies in Latin America. As a highly influential epistemic community, the medical profession loomed large at a time when the Latin American states were still in the process of formation. The agency of doctors ensured that these events gave impulses to national reform agendas. In this context two mechanisms played an important role: competitive cooperation and legitimisation. Both were highly influential as will be shown for Chile and Uruguay using conference proceedings, medical journals, memoirs and other contributions to the contemporary debate, including selected regulatory papers and laws.

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How to have narrative‐flipping history in a pandemic: Views of/from Latin America

Cited by 31 publications

References 50 publications

Modernity's Antillean ecologies: Dispossession, disasters, justice, and repair across the Caribbean archipelago

Modernity's Antillean ecologies: Dispossession, disasters, justice, and repair across the Caribbean archipelago

Socioenvironmental conflicts under COVID-19 pandemic and the need of historical-sociological perspectives in conservation science

Transnational Events and National Health Reform: The Latin American Medical Congresses and the Legitimisation of Public Health Reforms in Chile and Uruguay in the Early Twentieth Century

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