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Hypo-interventions: Intimate activism in toxic environments
(2018)
Chemical toxicity is part of everyday life in Puchuncavi. The most polluted industrial compound in Chile, Puchuncavi is home of fourteen industrial complexes, including the largest copper smelting plant in the country and ...
The Politics of Political Science and Toxic Democracies : A Hemispheric Perspective
(Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Ciencia Política, 2014)
Este trabajo problematiza las perspectivas dominantes sobre los procesos de democratización, las cuales provienen principalmente de la academia anglosajona. Para ello, atiende a las relaciones de poder existentes tanto ...
Key issues on sediment quality assessment: A review of South American research with emphasis on Brazil
(2007)
Conventional approaches to pollution prevention in South American countries have traditionally relied on scientists identifying potentially harmful substances and practices, and advising regulators concerning exposures and ...
Toxic Pigment in a Capacocha Burial: Instrumental Identification of Cinnabar in Inca Human Remains from Iquique, Chile
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2018)
© 2018 University of Oxford We report on the analysis of a red pigment found in a lavish Inca burial from Cerro Esmeralda, Chile, associated with the human sacrifice of two young girls. The outcome shows that the red pigment ...
Perception and legitimation in the face of socioecological inequalities in contemporary Chile
(Latin American Studies Association, 2020)
This article analyzes the perceptions about and legitimation of inequalities in the case of Chile, focusing on the socioecological dimension. It shows the results of a four-year qualitative study carried out in five cases ...
Caracterización química y agronómica de las aguas residuales del yacimiento Castellano, Pinar del Río
(2018)
La reutilización de las aguas residuales en la agricultura es una necesidad futura en muchos países, ya que este sector emplea casi el 70 % del agua dulce disponible y se han reportado niveles de déficit hídrico críticos ...
The Production of Risk: Mining Extractivism and Urban Risk in Northern Chile. The Case of Copiapó
(2019)
Processes of ‘Neo-liberalisation’ of nature are increasingly defining our relationship with the physical world. This is manifested in mining, linked with global markets of natural resources and a key component of the ...