Please join us for the inaugural talk in the Arizona Latinamericanist Working Group's 2018-2019 public lecture series.
This talk will discuss the struggle for political and environmental control of the Andean world and its relationship with the models with which water is conceived. These models, or modes of understanding the materiality of water, are informed by ambivalent metaphors. By employing an eco-perspectival approach that shifts between ecological and economic symbolic formations, this talk will focus on the impasses that emerge out of the failure to master, dominate, and commodify water.
The Arizona Latinamericanist Working Group is a graduate student group interested in the political, cultural, and philosophical production and dissemination of discourses on or about Latin America. The aim of the collective is to establish avenues for dialogue, critical thinking, and a sense of community amongst graduate students, faculty, as well as scholars in other institutions whose point of convergence is their mutual interest in Latin America. As such, the Arizona Latinamericanist Working Group aims to critically engage with Latin America's culture and politics from a humanities perspective while at the same time inviting and encouraging inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on the political and cultural issues that define Latin America's history and its current - and ongoing - cultural and political transformations.