nature

Nature Fictions: Scientists, Indians, and Activists

Carlos Diz y Eleder Piñeiro Aguiar, Universidade da Coruña, España y Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile

Imagining “Natural Paradise”. Representation and modernity in Puerto Gaitán, Meta

Sergio Ramírez seramirezdiaz@gmail.com Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: Puerto Gaitán municipality, in the department of Meta, has become important on the Colombian economic map. In this paper, I will show the formation of Puerto Gaitán in the last years, exploring changes in the modes of land exploitation, production and use, and the emergence of the […]

Anthropocentric and Eurocentric Foundations of Contemporary Poverty and Communication Idea

Abstract: This paper reflects around the treatment given to the concepts of poverty and communication throughout the last 60 years by a number of theories of development existing in the Latin American region within the social sciences. Particularly, we will focus our discussion on how those concepts have inherited an Eurocentric and anthropocentric global power […]