Cosmopolitics: Ecocultures of Abya Yala and Urihi A

The Focus Program and the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Language discrimination in Fragile Communities presents:

Cosmopolitics: Ecocultures of Abya Yala and Urihi A

Jessica Doyle
Mellon Sawyer PhD Dissertating Fellow
Romance Studies | Duke University

March 17, 2022, 5:15 pm EST
hybrid event:
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Jessica holds a BA, summa cum laude, in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Columbia University and an MSc with distinction in Latin American Studies from the University of Oxford. Her work incorporates historical understanding of development patterns and ecologies of land use in Latin America. She has studied environmentally contextualized human rights and social movements, decolonial approaches to nature, and media studies and communications in the framework of environmental change. Her current research aims to understand how distinct cosmologies of Indigenous peoples of Latin America, in particular the Amazon region, present new possibilities to think about contemporary debates on climate change and ecological crises.

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