"Tumbar el monte" is an essential first step when preparing a site for a milpa (rainfed agricultural plot). It means to knock the (low)forest down, part of a slash-and-burn process. Monte is the word we use in Yucatán for the forest. Why is this official document translating it as "mount tomb"?!? 🥲
A bit of food, traditions, and biocultural practices and territories. I wrote a wee piece about "relleno negro", a tasty and spicy dish from Yucatán in Mexico. Recipe included!
Happy cooking :)
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Our recipe book is finally published! Have a look at some of the recipes from Tz'utujil Maya women from our "Recipes for Recovery" project.
This work was part of my contribution to the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social based at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social as a postdoc.
Thank you all who contributed! 🌱
Juggling work, applications, (new) teaching, training, writing, and trying to have healthy habits, with the world collapsing in a new and exciting way every day: I'm exhausted by 8 Jan. (Oh yeah, I also only had three days off this end of year, so add that) 🫠
But yeah, happy new year!
oh yay! looking forward to next year then 😂 also, I have unilaterally agreed, that any time after 8pm is fair for bedtime 😴
Estas recetas, los recuerdos y el trabajo diario hacen posible la continuidad de las formas de vida mayas en Chuk Muk, Guatemala, tras un reasentamiento por desastre.
¡Que disfruten cocinando!
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Este libro de recetas es parte del @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social en la Universidad de Edimburgo.
Como parte de "Recetas para la Recuperación", nos comprometimos a documentar las tradiciones agroalimentarias en el trabajo de las mujeres mayas tz'utujiles.
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Portada del libro de recetas "Mujeres Tz'utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk".
¡Nuestro recetario por fin está listo!
Este libro surge del trabajo colectivo del proyecto "Recetas para la Recuperación" (2023-2025), una propuesta de investigación-acción feminista, transformadora y decolonial.
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Our recipe book is finally published! Have a look at some of the recipes from Tz'utujil Maya women from our "Recipes for Recovery" project.
This work was part of my contribution to the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social based at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social as a postdoc.
Thank you all who contributed! 🌱
This is part of the research project "Recipes for Recovery: The Case of Tz'utujil Women in a Post-Disaster Context in Guatemala," which I led from 2023 to 2025. I will soon be sharing the digital version, while we will deliver printed versions to the Ixqii' Ajtz'utjilaa' and the team.
Cover of our recipe book.
Almost there! We are finishing our collaborative book between a group of Tz'utujil women in Guatemala and a small team from the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social. This book brings together some of the everyday food recipes of this group of women who were resettled to a new town after a disaster.
A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#App #Food #Agriculture #Farms #FoodSystems #Climate
On this day in 1954, the United States orchestrated a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive and democratically-elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.
In case you missed our book launch, here's the link to the recorded version!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqXt...
Unfortunately, I couldn't be there for the live event, but you can see a pre-recorded presentation of my chapter :)
Thank you to the editors and other authors of the book!
🇲🇽🔎 La degradación ambiental que enfrenta Quintana Roo, el único estado del Caribe que tiene #México, es alarmante. Ciudadanos y colectivos presentaron cuatro iniciativas que buscan regular el crecimiento urbano sin control en la zona. tinyurl.com/26k34ecc
Severe weather alert for excesive heat in Mérida.
Wondering why my brain feels like 🫠...
My paper "Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatán" is now in a published issue of Gender, Place & Culture!
Have a look here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3...
#FeministGeographies #MayaWomen
Book available now!
Do ask your universities to get a copy 😅
Link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
When you admire someone's work (and cite them) and one day they contact you directly to ask for copies of your paper and PhD thesis because they are interested in reading them 😀✨🤓
Life is always getting in the way of plans! 💜
Coming soon!
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In this chapter, I analyse the construction and strengthening of biocultural territories in the Yucatán Peninsula, focusing on the practices and experiences within solares (home gardens) as geographical and symbolic spaces.
#decolonial #wayoflife #MayaPeople
With a decolonial approach, I question the development demanded by modernity for the peninsular region and reinforce the alternatives proposed by local Indigenous populations and organisations for the correlated wellbeing of peoples and territories.
In my chapter "Building biocultural territories in the Solares of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico", I analyse the construction, recovery, and strengthening of the biocultural territories of the Peninsula of Yucatán from the practices and experiences in the solares, as geographic and symbolic spaces.
Book cover "Territories and Development in Latin America. Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions"
Save the date!
Join me and the editors and fellow co-authors of the book "Territorial Development in Latin America Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions" at the online book launch organised by the RSA.
21 May 2025
16.00 BST
Registration: lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...
♀️🌍 #InternationalWomensDay reminds us WOMEN FEED THE WORLD!
Women produce 60% of food in the Global South—yet are denied land, finance & power.
“If we don’t get more gender equality in #foodsystems, we’ll keep skewing toward profit—away from sustainability & feeding people.”
#IWD2025
Aww thank you for sharing! ✨
Thank you, Sharon. That's very kind of you. (And what can I say, it feels hopeless indeed!)
Figure 7 from Naismith et al. 2025 in Journal of Applied Volcanology, illustrating the process of producing a zine page on local people's experiences of Fuego's eruptions.
Check out the 1st article in our special issue on Community Voices in #JournalofAppliedVolcanology by Ailsa Naismith: 'Illustrating Fuego' #volcano which documents local people's experiences of Fuego's #eruptions. Read it now👇🌋🏘️🎨
appliedvolc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
(and visit me for a few days! 💜)