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Seven Rivers Chapter of the Fulbright Association Meeting -"Cloud Forest, Political Ecology and Wellbeing in NW Ecuador"

Cloud Forest, Political Ecology and Wellbeing in NW Ecuador

 

Linda D’Amico

Department of Global Studies & World Languages

Winona State University

 

D’Amico, a cultural anthropologist will provide a brief overview of her Fulbright experiences and how those have influenced her scholarship and teaching. In particular, she will focus on her current research that investigates links between infectious disease, public health, and socio-ecological conditions in Western Cantón (County) Cotacachi, Imbabura Province Ecuador.

Cotacachi County in NW Ecuador is renown for its participatory democracy and multi-racial-ethnic populations as well as for its geographic and ecological diversities and the two decades of resistance to extractive industries and alternative development paradigms.  This current project builds on twenty-seven years of research and collaborations, and examines interstices between social and ecological praxis at the edges of subtropical forests, some of the most bio-diverse regions of Earth. How do cultural, environmental and economic factors frame labor opportunities including subsistence farming, logging, ranching, commerce, mining, dam construction and maintenance, conservation, agro-ecology and ecotourism in the frontier zone between nature and development?

Along with physicians Manuel Calvopiña, Universidad de las Américas Quito Ecuador, and Mark Enzler, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, we have begun to explore ways socio-ecological factors intersect and have consequences on human and environmental health. The aim is to better understand global bio-politics in this zone of mega-bio-cultural diversities with regard to overlapping development paradigms and how local people, Montubios, value and can generate sustainable and healthy livelihood strategies in this zone known as Intag-Manduriacos.

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When

Past occurrences (1)

  • 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017

Where

Winona State University - Pasteur Hall Rm. 237
175 W Mark St
Winona, MN 55987

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Winona State University - Pasteur Hall Rm. 237 175 W Mark St Winona, MN 55987

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For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact Miranda Panzer at 608.785.8823 or mpanzer@uwlax.edu.

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