Liza Grandia
Biographic Data
| ID | 96575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liza Grandia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liza |
| FAMILY NAME | Grandia |
| SIGNATURE | GRANDIA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Les canaris dans la mine de l'Anthropocène
Indigenous Food Systems
Reviewed by: Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases, and Conversations ed. by Priscilla Settee and Shailesh Shukla Liza Grandia (bio) Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases, and Conversations edited by Priscilla Settee and Shailesh Shukla Canadian Scholars, 2020 in 1996, seventy organizations representing peasant, Indigenous, fisherfolk, farmworker, and other land-based movements from six continents gathered in Tlaxcala, Mexico, for the secon…
Poisonous Exports
U.S. intervention in Guatemala's agricultural autonomy over the past 80 years has been a toxic blend of commission and omission. From the Green Revolution on, the United States has exported both harmful pesticides and ideological frameworks to persuade indigenous and other locally rooted small farmers to abandon traditional, chemical-free agriculture. Although U.S.-funded programs suggested that with proper labor protocols agrochemicals can be ap…
Ambulatory Ethnography through the ‘Living Fields’ of Cambodia
Canary Science in the Mineshaft of the Anthropocene
Alongside the melting of glaciers, human bodies warn of another petrochemically driven planetary crisis. Much as climate science ignored the early warning observations of Indigenous peoples, the medical establishment has oft en dismissed the canaries struggling to survive in the mineshaft of modernity. In an aleatory Anthropocene, we know not for whom the toxicity will toll. While case studies of environmental justice remain essential, the privil…
Carpet Bombings
Outdoor images predominate in our cultural conceptions of “air pollution” even though indoor air quality (IAQ) is typically tenfold more contaminated. New modeling of LA smog in Science suggests that source emissions from indoor and personal care products contribute more to that city’s infamous poor air quality than vehicular combustion. In similar paradox, even as outdoor smoke from California wildfires in 2017 pushed PM2.5 levels past red into …
Toxic Gaslighting
Outdoor images predominate in cultural conceptions of “air pollution,” whilst indoor air quality (IAQ) is typically tenfold more contaminated. Recent nonprofit research revealed that “green label” carpet contains up to 44 hazardous substances. How and why do school administrators not know this? When people speak colloquially about “toxic” schools, they typically refer to social environments whose power dynamics are manipulated by difficult people…
Back to the Future
James C. Scott’s (1976) classic work on the Chayanovian logics of peasant economy argued that less important than the amount taken was how little might be left. A similar awareness about the paucity of the “leftovers” (li xeel, in Q’eqchi’ Mayan) has inspired a peasant federation in northern Guatemala to embrace its indigenous identity through scores of village declarations of autonomy. Albeit born from a class-based organizing repertoire, the ne…
Toxic Tropics
In contrast to popular images of the tropics as verdant Edens, forest dwellers face various pollutants with little-understood environmental health impacts. Drawing upon long-term ethnographic research in northern Guatemala through the lens of Mary Douglas' work on purity, danger, and culture, this paper describes how the inventive re-use of modern waste exposes rural people to new and unknown toxic substances from “matter out of place.” While env…
A Firsthand Perspective on Secondhand Fragrance
Sacred Maize against a Legal Maze
I chronicle here how a small country deled one of the world’s largest corporations and, in the process, reinvigorated civic hopes for a more democratic future. In the summer of 2014, massive mobilizations across Guatemala forced its legislature to repeal a plant varieties protection act, dubbed the ‘Monsanto Law’ that would otherwise have legalized genetically modiled (GM) crops in one of the few countries worldwide that prohibits them. Harnessin…
Secrecy and Insurgency
Slow ethnography
Informed by the snail's pace of the Zapatista 'caracol' process and the Slow Food movement, this contribution explores the liberatory potential of 'slow ethnography' over two decades in the Maya lowlands of Guatemala and Belize, oriented from a 'hut with a view'. Against the unbearable lightness of multi-sited imaginaries, I describe the intellectual and personal discoveries gained from following Laura Nader's framework for 'studying up, down and…
Up, down, and sideways
Foreword Laura Nader Introduction: On Studying Up, Down, and Sideways: What's at Stake? Roberto J. Gonzalez and Rachael Stryker PART I: STUDYING WEALTH AND POWER Chapter 1. On Debt: Tracking the Shifting Role of the Debtor in U.S. Bankruptcy Legal Practice Linda Coco Chapter 2. On Commerce: Analyzing the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-1998 Jay Ou Chapter 3. On Bureaucracy: Excessively Up at the International Labour Organisation Ellen Hertz PART I…
Modified landscapes
From the countryside to the cubicle, this contribution explores vulnerabilities to genetically modified (GM) contamination of maize landraces in northern Guatemala following the DR-CAFTA (Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement). Although some industrial farmers elsewhere in Guatemala might welcome GM seeds, in this lowland refuge zone, transnational agribusiness corporations would largely face a recalcitrant and ris…
Road Mapping
From IIRSA (Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America) to the PPP (Puebla to Panama Plan, later renamed the Mesoamerica Project), development banks are sponsoring a renewed wave of mega-infrastructure projects across the Americas to support corporate trade and commerce. Concurrent with these are donor-led efforts to modernize land administration systems, including a US$ 31 million World Bank loan (1998-2007) to survey and legalize s…
Raw hides
Road Mapping
From IIRSA (Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America) to the PPP (Puebla to Panama Plan, later renamed the Mesoamerica Project), development banks are sponsoring a renewed wave of mega-infrastructure projects across the Americas to support corporate trade and commerce. Concurrent with these are donor-led efforts to modernize land administration systems, including a US$ 31 million World Bank loan (1998-2007) to survey and legalize s…
Raw hides
Slow ethnography
Informed by the snail's pace of the Zapatista 'caracol' process and the Slow Food movement, this contribution explores the liberatory potential of 'slow ethnography' over two decades in the Maya lowlands of Guatemala and Belize, oriented from a 'hut with a view'. Against the unbearable lightness of multi-sited imaginaries, I describe the intellectual and personal discoveries gained from following Laura Nader's framework for 'studying up, down and…
Modified landscapes
From the countryside to the cubicle, this contribution explores vulnerabilities to genetically modified (GM) contamination of maize landraces in northern Guatemala following the DR-CAFTA (Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement). Although some industrial farmers elsewhere in Guatemala might welcome GM seeds, in this lowland refuge zone, transnational agribusiness corporations would largely face a recalcitrant and ris…
Poisonous Exports
U.S. intervention in Guatemala's agricultural autonomy over the past 80 years has been a toxic blend of commission and omission. From the Green Revolution on, the United States has exported both harmful pesticides and ideological frameworks to persuade indigenous and other locally rooted small farmers to abandon traditional, chemical-free agriculture. Although U.S.-funded programs suggested that with proper labor protocols agrochemicals can be ap…
Toxic Tropics
In contrast to popular images of the tropics as verdant Edens, forest dwellers face various pollutants with little-understood environmental health impacts. Drawing upon long-term ethnographic research in northern Guatemala through the lens of Mary Douglas' work on purity, danger, and culture, this paper describes how the inventive re-use of modern waste exposes rural people to new and unknown toxic substances from “matter out of place.” While env…
Sacred Maize against a Legal Maze
I chronicle here how a small country deled one of the world’s largest corporations and, in the process, reinvigorated civic hopes for a more democratic future. In the summer of 2014, massive mobilizations across Guatemala forced its legislature to repeal a plant varieties protection act, dubbed the ‘Monsanto Law’ that would otherwise have legalized genetically modiled (GM) crops in one of the few countries worldwide that prohibits them. Harnessin…
Canary Science in the Mineshaft of the Anthropocene
Alongside the melting of glaciers, human bodies warn of another petrochemically driven planetary crisis. Much as climate science ignored the early warning observations of Indigenous peoples, the medical establishment has oft en dismissed the canaries struggling to survive in the mineshaft of modernity. In an aleatory Anthropocene, we know not for whom the toxicity will toll. While case studies of environmental justice remain essential, the privil…
Raw hides
Road Mapping
From IIRSA (Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America) to the PPP (Puebla to Panama Plan, later renamed the Mesoamerica Project), development banks are sponsoring a renewed wave of mega-infrastructure projects across the Americas to support corporate trade and commerce. Concurrent with these are donor-led efforts to modernize land administration systems, including a US$ 31 million World Bank loan (1998-2007) to survey and legalize s…
Up, down, and sideways
Foreword Laura Nader Introduction: On Studying Up, Down, and Sideways: What's at Stake? Roberto J. Gonzalez and Rachael Stryker PART I: STUDYING WEALTH AND POWER Chapter 1. On Debt: Tracking the Shifting Role of the Debtor in U.S. Bankruptcy Legal Practice Linda Coco Chapter 2. On Commerce: Analyzing the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-1998 Jay Ou Chapter 3. On Bureaucracy: Excessively Up at the International Labour Organisation Ellen Hertz PART I…
Modified landscapes
From the countryside to the cubicle, this contribution explores vulnerabilities to genetically modified (GM) contamination of maize landraces in northern Guatemala following the DR-CAFTA (Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement). Although some industrial farmers elsewhere in Guatemala might welcome GM seeds, in this lowland refuge zone, transnational agribusiness corporations would largely face a recalcitrant and ris…
Slow ethnography
Informed by the snail's pace of the Zapatista 'caracol' process and the Slow Food movement, this contribution explores the liberatory potential of 'slow ethnography' over two decades in the Maya lowlands of Guatemala and Belize, oriented from a 'hut with a view'. Against the unbearable lightness of multi-sited imaginaries, I describe the intellectual and personal discoveries gained from following Laura Nader's framework for 'studying up, down and…
Sacred Maize against a Legal Maze
I chronicle here how a small country deled one of the world’s largest corporations and, in the process, reinvigorated civic hopes for a more democratic future. In the summer of 2014, massive mobilizations across Guatemala forced its legislature to repeal a plant varieties protection act, dubbed the ‘Monsanto Law’ that would otherwise have legalized genetically modiled (GM) crops in one of the few countries worldwide that prohibits them. Harnessin…
Secrecy and Insurgency
A Firsthand Perspective on Secondhand Fragrance
Toxic Tropics
In contrast to popular images of the tropics as verdant Edens, forest dwellers face various pollutants with little-understood environmental health impacts. Drawing upon long-term ethnographic research in northern Guatemala through the lens of Mary Douglas' work on purity, danger, and culture, this paper describes how the inventive re-use of modern waste exposes rural people to new and unknown toxic substances from “matter out of place.” While env…
Carpet Bombings
Outdoor images predominate in our cultural conceptions of “air pollution” even though indoor air quality (IAQ) is typically tenfold more contaminated. New modeling of LA smog in Science suggests that source emissions from indoor and personal care products contribute more to that city’s infamous poor air quality than vehicular combustion. In similar paradox, even as outdoor smoke from California wildfires in 2017 pushed PM2.5 levels past red into …
Toxic Gaslighting
Outdoor images predominate in cultural conceptions of “air pollution,” whilst indoor air quality (IAQ) is typically tenfold more contaminated. Recent nonprofit research revealed that “green label” carpet contains up to 44 hazardous substances. How and why do school administrators not know this? When people speak colloquially about “toxic” schools, they typically refer to social environments whose power dynamics are manipulated by difficult people…
Back to the Future
James C. Scott’s (1976) classic work on the Chayanovian logics of peasant economy argued that less important than the amount taken was how little might be left. A similar awareness about the paucity of the “leftovers” (li xeel, in Q’eqchi’ Mayan) has inspired a peasant federation in northern Guatemala to embrace its indigenous identity through scores of village declarations of autonomy. Albeit born from a class-based organizing repertoire, the ne…
Ambulatory Ethnography through the ‘Living Fields’ of Cambodia
Canary Science in the Mineshaft of the Anthropocene
Alongside the melting of glaciers, human bodies warn of another petrochemically driven planetary crisis. Much as climate science ignored the early warning observations of Indigenous peoples, the medical establishment has oft en dismissed the canaries struggling to survive in the mineshaft of modernity. In an aleatory Anthropocene, we know not for whom the toxicity will toll. While case studies of environmental justice remain essential, the privil…
Poisonous Exports
U.S. intervention in Guatemala's agricultural autonomy over the past 80 years has been a toxic blend of commission and omission. From the Green Revolution on, the United States has exported both harmful pesticides and ideological frameworks to persuade indigenous and other locally rooted small farmers to abandon traditional, chemical-free agriculture. Although U.S.-funded programs suggested that with proper labor protocols agrochemicals can be ap…
Indigenous Food Systems
Reviewed by: Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases, and Conversations ed. by Priscilla Settee and Shailesh Shukla Liza Grandia (bio) Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases, and Conversations edited by Priscilla Settee and Shailesh Shukla Canadian Scholars, 2020 in 1996, seventy organizations representing peasant, Indigenous, fisherfolk, farmworker, and other land-based movements from six continents gathered in Tlaxcala, Mexico, for the secon…
Les canaris dans la mine de l'Anthropocène
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Ethnography (5 works)