Descripción del proyecto
La deforestación es un factor de las tensiones sociales
La deforestación es un factor importante en la perturbación medioambiental que afecta a diferentes sectores de la sociedad. El proyecto lanloss, financiado con fondos europeos, propone realizar un estudio en el Gran Chaco, una zona de América del Sur con una alta tasa de deforestación e impactos severos tanto en las poblaciones indígenas como en los colonos blancos. Analizarán datos satelitales y recurrirán a las comunidades locales para generar sus propias historias y conclusiones. Esto ayudará a catalogar las historias y recuerdos relacionados con cómo impactó la deforestación sobre las comunidades afectadas. Además, ampliará nuestros conocimientos sobre cómo afecta la deforestación a las comunidades locales y produce tensiones sociales.
Objetivo
Environmental upheavals generate losses across diverse sectors of society, and can heighten risks of social conflict (UNCCD 2017). Mapping the histories, memories and affective experiences of such losses among impacted communities could help expose incipient social tensions before they escalate. In the South American Gran Chaco, the rate of deforestation – which is among the highest in the world – is impacting the landscapes and livelihoods of indigenous, peasant, and white settler groups in both shared and competing ways. By working together with satellite data researchers, this multi-disciplinary project proposes an innovative collaborative approach to mapping the lived social and affective experience of rapid deforestation in the Gran Chaco through participatory memory-mapping: a process where local communities with antagonistic histories are invited to interact with the satellite data themselves, generating their own narratives of the various landscapes they have lost through a technique I call “affective mapping.” This collaborative approach enables both multi-disciplinary researchers as well as locals to develop new comparative understandings of how deforestation impacts communities in both shared and unequal ways, thus providing contexts for better understanding incipient tensions over resources.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
30123 Venezia
Italia