Este texto es el resultado de conectar los puntos entre mi investigación doctoral y eventos recientes ocurridos en Colombia, para evidenciar como la criminalización de campesinos y la presentación de sus actividades como si fueran el delito de “rebelión,” es parte de una larga historia de políticas anti-campesinado que buscan lograr la descampesinización de los territorios.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Author: Diana M. Valencia
Dr. Diana M. Valencia-Duarte (she/ella) is a former content editor for EHN. After completing a PhD in History at the University of Exeter, she currently a Lecturer in the History of the Global South at Aberystwyth University. In her research, Diana combines rural studies and food security theory with environmental history methods, aiming for practical impact and to inform food production debates.
Territories of Rebellion in Colombia
This post is the result of connecting the dots between my own research and current events in Colombia, to evidence how the criminalisation of peasants, and the portrayal of their activities as a “rebellion”-type crime, is part of a long history of anti-peasant policies aimed to depeasantise territories.
The Carbon Footprint of Environmental Research: A Personal Dilemma
It just did not sit right anymore to go on all these research trips. That’s when I calculated the Carbon Footprint of my project until thus far.