OLAGN Reading Group: Visualizing Loss in Latin America. Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment
Tuesday 28 May (Week 6) 1:30-2:30PM
Meeting Room 4, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road
The Oxford Latin American Graduate Network will host a reading group in preparation for our conference, Margins in Latin American Studies, that will take place in Oxford from 17-18 June 2024.
In this meeting, we will discuss Chapter 2 of Gisela Heffe’s work Visualizing Loss in Latin America. Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment (2023). All interested students and researchers are welcome.
Primary text:
Gisela Heffe. Visualizing Loss in Latin America. Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment. London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.
Available in Spanish, English. Chapter 2: “Destruction: The Garbage Dump as a Global Biocritical Trope” (pp. 55-114).
Optional further reading:
- Eduardo Gudynas. Extractivisms: Politics, Economy and Ecology. Nova Scotia, Fernwood Publishing, 2021.
- Ilka Kressner, Ana María mutis, and Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli (eds.). Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World. New York/London, Routledge, 2020.
- Mark Anderson and Zélia M. Bora (eds.). Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America. Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature. London, Lexington Books, 2016.
- Gisela Heffes. Políticas de la destrucción / Poéticas de la preservación. Apuntes para una lectura (eco) crítica del medio ambiente en América Latina. Rosario, Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2013
- Rob Nixon. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Zygmunt Bauman. Wasted Lives. Modernity and its Outcasts. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2004.
Literary and cinematic sources:
- Julio Ramón Ribeyro, “Los gallinazos sin plumas” (2010).
- Ilha das flores (directed by Jorge Furtado, 1898).
- Boca de Lixo (directed by Eduardo Coutinho, 1993).
The Oxford Latin American Graduate Network (OLAGN) is part of TORCH Student Networks
