Diego Silva Garzon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 114553 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Diego Silva Garzon |
| NOMBRES | Diego Silva |
| APELLIDO | Garzon |
| FIRMA | GARZON D S |
| AFILIACIONES | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5441-9937 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Symbols of Climate Action
Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy. Based on 7 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 30 interviews in Colombia, I trace the trajectory of a carbon credit fro…
Strategic dissonance
This article examines the narrative tensions between public and private REDD+ implementers in Colombia, in light of recent scandals impacting carbon markets. • It shows an interplay of narrative competition and practical collaboration between REDD+ jurisdictional programs and voluntary projects. • The article links these different positions to the strategic mobilization of environmental governance discourses and to two coexisting political agenda…
Making Indigeneity without Indigenous Peoples through Redd+ initiatives
REDD+ projects aim to 'reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries' by providing 'additional forest-related activities that protect the climate, namely sustainable management of forests and the conservation and enhancement of forest carbon stocks' (UNFCCC 2024). While some actors underscore the benefits of REDD+, some critical scholars have emphasized how this type of initiative reproduces the capitalist log…
Unraveling the colonialities of climate change and action
In this introduction to the special section on the Colonialities of climate change and action we provide a conceptual mapping that can help us engage critically with existing approaches to thinking and acting in the context of climate change. We carry out this exercise inspired by Latin American decolonial and political ecology scholarship, as well as by Farhana Sultana's notion of climate coloniality. In an effort to pluralize our understanding …
The political life of mitigation
This article seeks to stimulate analysis of how accounting knowledge, techniques, and practices work to incorporate agriculture and land use into climate mitigation. Accounting plays a significant role in the ways that capitalism inserts itself into, reworks, or reorganises agrarian webs of life. To study these processes, we train our critical gaze on accounting itself - its epistemic foundations, instruments, and narratives, and their implicatio…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Indigenous and Afrodescendant Movements and Organizations in Latin America
In 2018 the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva organized together with Europaeum and Alternautas, the workshop on “Democracy, Indigenous Rights and Ethno-Racial Mobilization: Latin America in Comparative Perspective.” This workshop was part of the “Geneva Democracy Week” organized by the Geneva Chancellery of State to promote dialogue between political institutions, civil society, students and citizens, with a view to strengthening th…
Security and Safety in the Glyphosate Debate
The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released on the 20th of March 2015 in Lyon (France) a controversial report stating that glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, is probably carcinogenic for humans. The use of the word “probably” is meant to clarify that although there is a positive correlation between exposure to the chemical agent and cancer, other explanations (such as chance, bias, or confounding) could …
Wounded relational worlds
In this article we engage with four experimental ethnographies (Blaser, 2010; Lyons, 2020; Miller, 2019; and Gordillo 2014) that build on multispecies approaches for the analysis of what we call 'wounded relational worlds' in Latin America. These are worlds in which human and more-than-human relations have been significantly reshaped, broken, or disrupted by colonization and capitalist extractivism(s). Despite this, wounded relational worlds have…
From Standard to Region-specific Monocrops
Industrial agriculture has promoted the expansion of monocrops around the world, aided by the circulation of highly standardized plant varieties. However, given the adverse environmental effects of this agricultural approach (such as genetic erosion) and the challenges posed by climate change, some biotech companies are trying to complexify industrial agriculture’s relationship to “place”. They are beginning to consider local particularities in t…
Keep Calm and Carry On
The diverse ways that extreme climate events are expressed at the local level have represented a challenge for the development of transgenic "climate-ready" (resilient to environmental stress) seeds. Based on the Argentinean "HB4" technology, this paper analyzes how ignorance and a sunflower gene are mobilized to overcome this difficulty in soy and wheat. HB4 seeds can be understood as myopic: the technology does not obstruct the capacity of soy …
Argentinean agribusiness and the porous agricultural company
This review brings together four essential contributions to the study of Argentinean agribusiness to reflect on the porosity that characterizes the organization of the country’s large agricultural companies. The review dissects popular representations of agribusiness as a highly mechanized and collaborative production network dispersed across rented plots of land and upheld by service providers. These representations ignore the lived experiences …
Revolturas
Drawing on ethnographic research, we analyze the motivations, conditions of possibility, and strategies of seed saving among different farmers in Colombia. For indigenous agroecological farmers, seed saving represents a form of resistance mobilized through narratives of tradition, sovereignty, freedom, and environmental protection. In contrast, industrial farmers, who grow genetically-modified cotton, carry out seed saving surreptitiously to mini…
Tres lógicas de acción y reacción para la monopolización de los mercados de semillas en Colombia
Además del avance de las leyes de propiedad intelectual y de la criminalización de las semillas no certificadas, la monopolización de los mercados de semillas incluye el despliegue de estrategias narrativas. Mediante el análisis de tres conflictos alrededor de las semillas transgénicas de algodón en Colombia, se analizan tres narrativas que le sirven al ICA y a las multinacionales semilleras para atribuir éxito a las semillas transgénicas y para …
Revolturas
Drawing on ethnographic research, we analyze the motivations, conditions of possibility, and strategies of seed saving among different farmers in Colombia. For indigenous agroecological farmers, seed saving represents a form of resistance mobilized through narratives of tradition, sovereignty, freedom, and environmental protection. In contrast, industrial farmers, who grow genetically-modified cotton, carry out seed saving surreptitiously to mini…
The political life of mitigation
This article seeks to stimulate analysis of how accounting knowledge, techniques, and practices work to incorporate agriculture and land use into climate mitigation. Accounting plays a significant role in the ways that capitalism inserts itself into, reworks, or reorganises agrarian webs of life. To study these processes, we train our critical gaze on accounting itself - its epistemic foundations, instruments, and narratives, and their implicatio…
Unraveling the colonialities of climate change and action
In this introduction to the special section on the Colonialities of climate change and action we provide a conceptual mapping that can help us engage critically with existing approaches to thinking and acting in the context of climate change. We carry out this exercise inspired by Latin American decolonial and political ecology scholarship, as well as by Farhana Sultana's notion of climate coloniality. In an effort to pluralize our understanding …
Wounded relational worlds
In this article we engage with four experimental ethnographies (Blaser, 2010; Lyons, 2020; Miller, 2019; and Gordillo 2014) that build on multispecies approaches for the analysis of what we call 'wounded relational worlds' in Latin America. These are worlds in which human and more-than-human relations have been significantly reshaped, broken, or disrupted by colonization and capitalist extractivism(s). Despite this, wounded relational worlds have…
Keep Calm and Carry On
The diverse ways that extreme climate events are expressed at the local level have represented a challenge for the development of transgenic "climate-ready" (resilient to environmental stress) seeds. Based on the Argentinean "HB4" technology, this paper analyzes how ignorance and a sunflower gene are mobilized to overcome this difficulty in soy and wheat. HB4 seeds can be understood as myopic: the technology does not obstruct the capacity of soy …
Tres lógicas de acción y reacción para la monopolización de los mercados de semillas en Colombia
Además del avance de las leyes de propiedad intelectual y de la criminalización de las semillas no certificadas, la monopolización de los mercados de semillas incluye el despliegue de estrategias narrativas. Mediante el análisis de tres conflictos alrededor de las semillas transgénicas de algodón en Colombia, se analizan tres narrativas que le sirven al ICA y a las multinacionales semilleras para atribuir éxito a las semillas transgénicas y para …
Tres lógicas de acción y reacción para la monopolización de los mercados de semillas en Colombia
Además del avance de las leyes de propiedad intelectual y de la criminalización de las semillas no certificadas, la monopolización de los mercados de semillas incluye el despliegue de estrategias narrativas. Mediante el análisis de tres conflictos alrededor de las semillas transgénicas de algodón en Colombia, se analizan tres narrativas que le sirven al ICA y a las multinacionales semilleras para atribuir éxito a las semillas transgénicas y para …
Argentinean agribusiness and the porous agricultural company
This review brings together four essential contributions to the study of Argentinean agribusiness to reflect on the porosity that characterizes the organization of the country’s large agricultural companies. The review dissects popular representations of agribusiness as a highly mechanized and collaborative production network dispersed across rented plots of land and upheld by service providers. These representations ignore the lived experiences …
Revolturas
Drawing on ethnographic research, we analyze the motivations, conditions of possibility, and strategies of seed saving among different farmers in Colombia. For indigenous agroecological farmers, seed saving represents a form of resistance mobilized through narratives of tradition, sovereignty, freedom, and environmental protection. In contrast, industrial farmers, who grow genetically-modified cotton, carry out seed saving surreptitiously to mini…
From Standard to Region-specific Monocrops
Industrial agriculture has promoted the expansion of monocrops around the world, aided by the circulation of highly standardized plant varieties. However, given the adverse environmental effects of this agricultural approach (such as genetic erosion) and the challenges posed by climate change, some biotech companies are trying to complexify industrial agriculture’s relationship to “place”. They are beginning to consider local particularities in t…
Keep Calm and Carry On
The diverse ways that extreme climate events are expressed at the local level have represented a challenge for the development of transgenic "climate-ready" (resilient to environmental stress) seeds. Based on the Argentinean "HB4" technology, this paper analyzes how ignorance and a sunflower gene are mobilized to overcome this difficulty in soy and wheat. HB4 seeds can be understood as myopic: the technology does not obstruct the capacity of soy …
Introduction to the Special Issue on Indigenous and Afrodescendant Movements and Organizations in Latin America
In 2018 the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva organized together with Europaeum and Alternautas, the workshop on “Democracy, Indigenous Rights and Ethno-Racial Mobilization: Latin America in Comparative Perspective.” This workshop was part of the “Geneva Democracy Week” organized by the Geneva Chancellery of State to promote dialogue between political institutions, civil society, students and citizens, with a view to strengthening th…
Security and Safety in the Glyphosate Debate
The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released on the 20th of March 2015 in Lyon (France) a controversial report stating that glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, is probably carcinogenic for humans. The use of the word “probably” is meant to clarify that although there is a positive correlation between exposure to the chemical agent and cancer, other explanations (such as chance, bias, or confounding) could …
Wounded relational worlds
In this article we engage with four experimental ethnographies (Blaser, 2010; Lyons, 2020; Miller, 2019; and Gordillo 2014) that build on multispecies approaches for the analysis of what we call 'wounded relational worlds' in Latin America. These are worlds in which human and more-than-human relations have been significantly reshaped, broken, or disrupted by colonization and capitalist extractivism(s). Despite this, wounded relational worlds have…
The political life of mitigation
This article seeks to stimulate analysis of how accounting knowledge, techniques, and practices work to incorporate agriculture and land use into climate mitigation. Accounting plays a significant role in the ways that capitalism inserts itself into, reworks, or reorganises agrarian webs of life. To study these processes, we train our critical gaze on accounting itself - its epistemic foundations, instruments, and narratives, and their implicatio…
Unraveling the colonialities of climate change and action
In this introduction to the special section on the Colonialities of climate change and action we provide a conceptual mapping that can help us engage critically with existing approaches to thinking and acting in the context of climate change. We carry out this exercise inspired by Latin American decolonial and political ecology scholarship, as well as by Farhana Sultana's notion of climate coloniality. In an effort to pluralize our understanding …
Making Indigeneity without Indigenous Peoples through Redd+ initiatives
REDD+ projects aim to 'reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries' by providing 'additional forest-related activities that protect the climate, namely sustainable management of forests and the conservation and enhancement of forest carbon stocks' (UNFCCC 2024). While some actors underscore the benefits of REDD+, some critical scholars have emphasized how this type of initiative reproduces the capitalist log…
Symbols of Climate Action
Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy. Based on 7 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 30 interviews in Colombia, I trace the trajectory of a carbon credit fro…
Strategic dissonance
This article examines the narrative tensions between public and private REDD+ implementers in Colombia, in light of recent scandals impacting carbon markets. • It shows an interplay of narrative competition and practical collaboration between REDD+ jurisdictional programs and voluntary projects. • The article links these different positions to the strategic mobilization of environmental governance discourses and to two coexisting political agenda…
Political science (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 obras) · Biology (6 obras) · Ecology (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Geography (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Agriculture (4 obras)