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Gisselle Vila Benites

@giviben.bsky.social

Human-environment geographer. Atkinson Postdoc at Cornell University. Researching informal mining, ethnic communities and reparation ecologies in Latin America. Peruana 🇵🇪 https://cals.cornell.edu/gisselle-vila-benites

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Pequeñas Islas - YouTube El dominical de La Encerrona

Entrevista en “Pequeñas Islas” / @ocramo.bsky.social en donde discutí los retos de la formalización minera en el Perú. Enfaticé que es importante reconocer la profunda heterogeneidad del sector (ejm. Mineria aluvial vs subterránea) y un enfoque de desarrollo territorial. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

13.07.2025 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Dear editors, your publication delays are damaging our careers Chia-Hsuan Hsu waited 18 months before chasing an editor for a decision on a paper. The answer surprised him.

As an early career scholar in the job market, and with a paper seven months under review, I can only echo this message: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

29.05.2025 05:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Good job!

13.05.2025 16:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Challenges and prospects for ‘green’ industrial policy in the Global South | Transnational Institute The Global Green Industrial Policy Lab invites young researchers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to submit original research on just, ecological industrial policy grounded in the r...

Nice opportunity for young researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America/Caribbean....Challenges and prospects for ‘green’ industrial policy in the Global South www.tni.org/en/open-call...

29.04.2025 17:04 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re hiring! 🌿
Join Wen as a Policy Campaigner and help us shape UK chemicals regulation through a feminist lens.

🗓️ Deadline: 3rd June, 5pm
📍 Remote/Hybrid | 3 days/week
💰 £38,766 pro rata

Care about justice, health & environment? This is for you.
🔗 Apply now: www.wen.org.uk/jobs-volunte...

29.04.2025 16:04 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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If you’re at #AAG2025 join us tomorrow at the feminist political ecologies of environmental repair panel. We’ll talk about what it entails caring for and repairing relationships with nature. I’ll share my work in progress concerning indigenous perspectives & after-mining transitions in the Amazon.

24.03.2025 21:09 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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What role does Latin America play in critical minerals? My commentary for the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin American Advisor highlights supply countries efforts to balance domestic industrial policies with geopolitical concerns thedialogue.org/latin-americ...

30.01.2025 19:49 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gracias por tu coraje! Un fuerte abrazo

30.01.2025 01:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Call for applications: 2025 #Myanmar Emerging Scholars and Young Leaders Workshop held at York University forms.gle/T7HGV54dv68d...

27.01.2025 18:30 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of Call for Papers: 
"Towards just pollution interventions: public experiments beyond the lab". 7th Nordic STS Conference: STS in and out of the Laboratory, June 11-13, 2025, Stockholm. See link in post for abstract and organisational details.

Screenshot of Call for Papers: "Towards just pollution interventions: public experiments beyond the lab". 7th Nordic STS Conference: STS in and out of the Laboratory, June 11-13, 2025, Stockholm. See link in post for abstract and organisational details.

CFP! At the Nordic STS conference this June in Stockholm @emmapdc.bsky.social & I are organising "Towards just pollution interventions: public experiments beyond the lab"

We welcome abstracts from any discipline or practice. Deadline March 1. Reach out for questions www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abs...

16.01.2025 09:16 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Pienso en cómo especies carismáticas se convierten en representativas de la identidad nacional y en que eso no ha ocurrido con el oso andino en Perú. Muchos acá aún lo ignoran y es más bien por las películas que está siendo reinventado -aún no apropiado, me parece

15.01.2025 14:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S3 Ep1 Liberation theology in Latin America Hierarchies of Development · Episode

🎧 Liberation Theology in Latin America

Being back from our break, we're starting the year with a new season of our "Hierarchies of Development" Podcast, episode 1 being just released!

🎤 with @ingridhk.bsky.social & Basile Boulay
open.spotify.com/episode/2ifg...

06.01.2025 09:24 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Is Talk Cheap? Making Palm Oil ‘Sustainable’: A conversation with Montserrat Perez Castro - Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) In this episode, Kate and Ariana catch up with Montserrat Pérez Castro in the midst of her fieldwork in Mexico. Transnational food companies and palm oil

We chatted about fieldwork in supply chains, differences between more or less charismatic commodities, the relations between language, value and labor, secrecy/transparency, how we attach meaning to our jobs (or not!), and the semiotic and material work of translation
econanthro.org/podcasts/is-...

06.01.2025 16:12 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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El otro partido - Aldo Panfichi, Gisselle Vila, Noelia Chávez y Sergio Saravia. Riguroso estudio sobre el futbol profesional peruano que abarca un análisis del rol de los clubes, las federaciones, el Estado y, sobre todo, las prácticas sociales que configuran al deporte rey en la...

Por si hay curiosidad: www.fondoeditorial.pucp.edu.pe/ciencias-soc...
Escrito junto con @noes91.bsky.social @sersaravia.bsky.social y Aldo Panfichi

31.12.2024 00:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Future Natures podcast - Future Natures The Future Natures podcast is a series of conversations about nature, commons and enclosures with people involved in action, research and activism. Listen You can listen and subscribe to the podcast o...

Looking for a holiday listen? Our podcast is a growing archive of conversations about shared life, resistance to enclosures, and diverse ways of relating to ‘nature’, places and each other.

futurenatures.org/podcast

21.12.2024 09:36 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Petroperú Minimizes Oil Spill in Piura: Damage Reported in 10 Thousand Square Meters of Sea and Four Beaches | Amazon Watch An oil spill resulting from an underwater terminal of Petroperú’s Talara Refinery has spread to four beaches in Lobitos on the northern coast of Peru, affecting approximately 10,000 cubic meters of th...

🌊 An #oilspill on the Peruvian coast has polluted 10,000+ m² of ocean and 4 beaches. Marine life is coated in crude oil, devastating fishing & tourism. Oil company Petroperú’s negligence is under fire as communities demand accountability and justice.
amazonwatch.org/news/2024/12...

24.12.2024 00:28 — 👍 7    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2
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Estoy contenta de acompañar a las y los jóvenes becarios del Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria (SEPIA) en sus proyectos de investigación. Este 2025 además realizaré la ponencia de balance sobre economías informales e ilegales en el Perú rural.

19.12.2024 00:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The new political ecology starter pack is here go.bsky.app/Kr7iPwr

08.12.2024 12:19 — 👍 50    🔁 23    💬 3    📌 5
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The lands of Indigenous and peasant communities in Colombia and Myanmar are being destroyed for extracting 'green' energy resources.

How can we move beyond extractivism and create truly equitable, community-led solutions?

www.tni.org/en/article/m...

14.12.2024 11:00 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2

Hello world. Human-Environment Geographer here. My themes are #PoliticalEcology #DevelopmentGeography #AgrarianStudies #IndigenousPeople #NaturalResourceGovernance #InformalMining #LatinAmerica #ActionResearch #ParticipatoryMethods

12.12.2024 21:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to contribute to the Transnational Institute’s “Mining and Just Transitions” conversation series. I was interviewed on informal mining and ethnic communities in the Andes: www.tni.org/en/article/a...

#IndigenousPeoples #BlackCommunities #PoliticalEcology

11.12.2024 17:01 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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