Veronica Davidov
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 77083 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Veronica Davidov |
| NOMBRES | Veronica |
| APELLIDO | Davidov |
| FIRMA | DAVIDOV V |
| AFILIACIONES | Monmouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7098-4338 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Mixing Oil and Water
The Shrimp-Petroleum Festival is an annual event in Morgan City, Louisiana, that celebrates the history of the two industries in this coastal city. The festival came under media scrutiny and public criticism in the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in part because of the seeming incompatibility and incongruence of the two things being celebrated. From a local perspective, however, the convergence of the two industries is far fr…
Covid, climate and comparison
This article explores how public responses to the Covid-19 pandemic could potentially help us understand the responses to the climate crisis and its environmental catastrophes. Public responses to the pandemic, in turn, also potentially help us understand the responses to the climate crisis and its environmental catastrophes. How do these compare through our epistemological lenses? Can the various Covid-19 responses function as a projection of fu…
Equity and Viability in Scholarly Publishing
Biomimicry as a Meta-Resource and Megaproject
This literature review of biomimicry and related models of treating nature as a meta-resource on a mega-scale integrates concepts of resources and abundance. Biomimicry, which lies at the intersection of biosciences and industrial design, is a praxis for drawing on designs and processes found in nature and using them as inspirational sources for technologies. Environmental anthropology often focuses on processes such as extraction and commodifica…
Environmentally induced displacements in the ecotourism–extraction nexus
Around the world, we increasingly see the often‐deemed incongruent activities of ecotourism, associated environmental conservation and natural resource or fossil fuel extraction happening in the same spaces, often supported by the same institutions. Rather than being incongruent, however, these seemingly uncomfortable bedfellows are transforming spaces, livelihoods and social, political and environmental geographies in tandem through what we call…
Social Lives and Symbolic Capital
Lawsuits are representational arenas, as well as legal events. They serve as integrative spaces for power relations, symbolic orders, and moral economies. This article focuses on the 'social lives' of two lawsuits brought by indigenous communities to litigate issues arising from oil extraction on their territories: the Texaco lawsuit in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Beaver Lake Cree Nation lawsuit in Alberta, Canada. I analyze the narratives of i…
Introduction
Time and the NGOther
This article looks at divergent and competing understandings of temporalities in Estero de Platano, a fishing village in the Esmeraldas province of Ecuador. Through a discussion of how time can structure experience and exist as cultural capital, I explore issues of temporalities through an ethnographic lens. Specifically, I show how way how differences between NGO temporalities and local temporalities come to bear on the kind of knowledge that NG…
Beyond Formal Environmentalism
The frame of "environmentalism" in academic and policy literature onRussia tends to focus on the "formal" environmentalism sector inRussia, thereby relegating phenomena such as the conservative, eco-spiritual "Anastasia" or "RingingCedars" movement to the domain of religious or spiritual studies. Yet this movement is significant for understanding the ecopolitical field of contemporaryRussia and the processes of meaning-making within that field. A…
Discordant Development
Land, Copper, Flora
This article examines the nuances of different constructions and meanings of "natural resources" in Ecuador. Focusing on the biodiverse and copper-rich region of Intag, I show how once a process of commodification of natural materials is underway-in a place where the biophysical specificities of soil, minerals, and flora map onto extractive, as well as "green" economies of value-there is an emergence of what I call "metonymic materiality," a disc…
A Future for Amazonia
‘Pedagogical’ and Ethnographic Fictions and Meta-narratives of Development
This article focuses on the development-themed Manga series entitled 1 World Manga, a World Bank/Viz Media project that follows the adventures of a young orphan boy, who ‘discovers that the only way to become a true warrior is to understand the challenges facing the poor and disadvantaged people he befriends along the way’. I argue that the series generates a pedagogical meta-narrative of ‘development’ that engages behavioural and situational, ra…
Ecotourism and Cultural Production
Ecotourism is a unique facet of globalization, promising the possibility of reconciling the juggernaut of development with ecological/cultural conservation. Davidov offers a comparative analysis of th
The Ecotourism-Extraction Nexus
Users are allowed to access the Full text of this item within the IP range of the university. URL : www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203384855
Amazonia as pharmacopia
This article analyzes the commonly deployed imaginary of the Amazon as a pharmacopia - a cornucopia of ethnomedicinal cures unheard of in the West. Using several fictional narratives (two novels and a film) as a starting point, I explore how the Western imaginary of the Amazon as a pharmacopia is a discursive variation on the environmental imaginary of the Amazon as the "lungs of world" - a vulnerable entity of high import and in need of protecti…
Mining versus Oil Extraction
En el Ecuador postneoliberal la ecopolítica esta flanqueada entre la extracción petrolífera y la minería, siendo el primer caso un ejemplo del fracaso de las políticas neoliberales, mientras el segundo es reflejo de las promesas populistas. Este artículo analiza cómo en Intag el activismo antiminería refleja este cambio en las políticas neoliberales desde un estado petrolero a un estado "nuevo y progresivo" que defiende una agenda prominería. En …
Saving nature or performing sovereignty? Ecuador's initiative to ‘keep oil in the ground’ (Respond to this article at http
The Yasuní‐ITT proposal by the government of Ecuador to “keep the oil in the ground” in the untouched, highly biodiverse Ishpingo‐Tambococha‐Tiputini sector of Yasuni National Park in exchange for compensatory 3.6 billion dollars from the international community, has been interpreted and analyzed by academics and the media alike as a radical environmental intervention. In this article I argue that the ITT initiative it less of a radical environme…
Oil Development on Traditional Lands of Indigenous Peoples
Two unrelated indigenous rainforest cultures are compared in relationship to their experiences with the oil industry in their territories. Despite their geographic separation, in Central Africa and western Amazonia, the acculturation process and its outcomes have been quite similar for the Bagyeli and the Waorani. In both cases, expectations for improvements in quality of life were high as the oil industry arrived but tremendous disappointments s…
From a Blind Spot to a Nexus
Ecotourism is primarily perceived and studied as an alternative to resource extraction, even though increasingly the two coexist side by side in a nexus. This article investigates how such instances of copresence are marginalized in literatures about ecotourism and extraction, constituting a “blind spot“ in academic literature. An extensive literature review focuses on the existing knowledge trends and paradigms in the production of knowledge abo…
Aguinda v. Texaco Inc
This article analyzes a series of litigations that began with the Aguinda v. Texaco Inc. case as a site of production of new legal subjectivities for indigenous communities in the region of the Ecuadorian Amazon polluted by oil extraction activities. They engage in the transnational and local legal structures, contribute to and generate legal and scientific knowledge and expertise, and articulate multiple legal subjectivities that position them n…
Shamans and Shams
Han surgido nuevas formas mercantilizadas de chamanismo en las comunidades Kichwa debido a la nueva afluencia de turistas interesados en las culturas indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana. Los ritos chamanicos son populares entre los turistas porque representan sus fantasías de la alteridad cultural, pero los intercambios económicos entre turistas y chamanes plantean problemas de legitimidad y autenticidad. El turismo privilegia los aspectos perfo…
Heritage-scape
Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and tourism, by Michael di Giovine, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008, 519 pp., US$44.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0739114353 Michael Di Gi
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti , 3rd edition. Geoffrey Nowell‐Smith. London: LoBFI Publishing. 2003
Land, Copper, Flora
This article examines the nuances of different constructions and meanings of "natural resources" in Ecuador. Focusing on the biodiverse and copper-rich region of Intag, I show how once a process of commodification of natural materials is underway-in a place where the biophysical specificities of soil, minerals, and flora map onto extractive, as well as "green" economies of value-there is an emergence of what I call "metonymic materiality," a disc…
Shamans and Shams
Han surgido nuevas formas mercantilizadas de chamanismo en las comunidades Kichwa debido a la nueva afluencia de turistas interesados en las culturas indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana. Los ritos chamanicos son populares entre los turistas porque representan sus fantasías de la alteridad cultural, pero los intercambios económicos entre turistas y chamanes plantean problemas de legitimidad y autenticidad. El turismo privilegia los aspectos perfo…
Environmentally induced displacements in the ecotourism–extraction nexus
Around the world, we increasingly see the often‐deemed incongruent activities of ecotourism, associated environmental conservation and natural resource or fossil fuel extraction happening in the same spaces, often supported by the same institutions. Rather than being incongruent, however, these seemingly uncomfortable bedfellows are transforming spaces, livelihoods and social, political and environmental geographies in tandem through what we call…
Mining versus Oil Extraction
En el Ecuador postneoliberal la ecopolítica esta flanqueada entre la extracción petrolífera y la minería, siendo el primer caso un ejemplo del fracaso de las políticas neoliberales, mientras el segundo es reflejo de las promesas populistas. Este artículo analiza cómo en Intag el activismo antiminería refleja este cambio en las políticas neoliberales desde un estado petrolero a un estado "nuevo y progresivo" que defiende una agenda prominería. En …
Beyond Formal Environmentalism
The frame of "environmentalism" in academic and policy literature onRussia tends to focus on the "formal" environmentalism sector inRussia, thereby relegating phenomena such as the conservative, eco-spiritual "Anastasia" or "RingingCedars" movement to the domain of religious or spiritual studies. Yet this movement is significant for understanding the ecopolitical field of contemporaryRussia and the processes of meaning-making within that field. A…
Amazonia as pharmacopia
This article analyzes the commonly deployed imaginary of the Amazon as a pharmacopia - a cornucopia of ethnomedicinal cures unheard of in the West. Using several fictional narratives (two novels and a film) as a starting point, I explore how the Western imaginary of the Amazon as a pharmacopia is a discursive variation on the environmental imaginary of the Amazon as the "lungs of world" - a vulnerable entity of high import and in need of protecti…
Biomimicry as a Meta-Resource and Megaproject
This literature review of biomimicry and related models of treating nature as a meta-resource on a mega-scale integrates concepts of resources and abundance. Biomimicry, which lies at the intersection of biosciences and industrial design, is a praxis for drawing on designs and processes found in nature and using them as inspirational sources for technologies. Environmental anthropology often focuses on processes such as extraction and commodifica…
Introduction
From a Blind Spot to a Nexus
Ecotourism is primarily perceived and studied as an alternative to resource extraction, even though increasingly the two coexist side by side in a nexus. This article investigates how such instances of copresence are marginalized in literatures about ecotourism and extraction, constituting a “blind spot“ in academic literature. An extensive literature review focuses on the existing knowledge trends and paradigms in the production of knowledge abo…
Time and the NGOther
This article looks at divergent and competing understandings of temporalities in Estero de Platano, a fishing village in the Esmeraldas province of Ecuador. Through a discussion of how time can structure experience and exist as cultural capital, I explore issues of temporalities through an ethnographic lens. Specifically, I show how way how differences between NGO temporalities and local temporalities come to bear on the kind of knowledge that NG…
Oil Development on Traditional Lands of Indigenous Peoples
Two unrelated indigenous rainforest cultures are compared in relationship to their experiences with the oil industry in their territories. Despite their geographic separation, in Central Africa and western Amazonia, the acculturation process and its outcomes have been quite similar for the Bagyeli and the Waorani. In both cases, expectations for improvements in quality of life were high as the oil industry arrived but tremendous disappointments s…
Aguinda v. Texaco Inc
This article analyzes a series of litigations that began with the Aguinda v. Texaco Inc. case as a site of production of new legal subjectivities for indigenous communities in the region of the Ecuadorian Amazon polluted by oil extraction activities. They engage in the transnational and local legal structures, contribute to and generate legal and scientific knowledge and expertise, and articulate multiple legal subjectivities that position them n…
A Future for Amazonia
Saving nature or performing sovereignty? Ecuador's initiative to ‘keep oil in the ground’ (Respond to this article at http
The Yasuní‐ITT proposal by the government of Ecuador to “keep the oil in the ground” in the untouched, highly biodiverse Ishpingo‐Tambococha‐Tiputini sector of Yasuni National Park in exchange for compensatory 3.6 billion dollars from the international community, has been interpreted and analyzed by academics and the media alike as a radical environmental intervention. In this article I argue that the ITT initiative it less of a radical environme…
Heritage-scape
Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and tourism, by Michael di Giovine, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008, 519 pp., US$44.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0739114353 Michael Di Gi
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti , 3rd edition. Geoffrey Nowell‐Smith. London: LoBFI Publishing. 2003
Heritage-scape
Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and tourism, by Michael di Giovine, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008, 519 pp., US$44.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0739114353 Michael Di Gi
Aguinda v. Texaco Inc
This article analyzes a series of litigations that began with the Aguinda v. Texaco Inc. case as a site of production of new legal subjectivities for indigenous communities in the region of the Ecuadorian Amazon polluted by oil extraction activities. They engage in the transnational and local legal structures, contribute to and generate legal and scientific knowledge and expertise, and articulate multiple legal subjectivities that position them n…
Shamans and Shams
Han surgido nuevas formas mercantilizadas de chamanismo en las comunidades Kichwa debido a la nueva afluencia de turistas interesados en las culturas indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana. Los ritos chamanicos son populares entre los turistas porque representan sus fantasías de la alteridad cultural, pero los intercambios económicos entre turistas y chamanes plantean problemas de legitimidad y autenticidad. El turismo privilegia los aspectos perfo…
Saving nature or performing sovereignty? Ecuador's initiative to ‘keep oil in the ground’ (Respond to this article at http
The Yasuní‐ITT proposal by the government of Ecuador to “keep the oil in the ground” in the untouched, highly biodiverse Ishpingo‐Tambococha‐Tiputini sector of Yasuni National Park in exchange for compensatory 3.6 billion dollars from the international community, has been interpreted and analyzed by academics and the media alike as a radical environmental intervention. In this article I argue that the ITT initiative it less of a radical environme…
Oil Development on Traditional Lands of Indigenous Peoples
Two unrelated indigenous rainforest cultures are compared in relationship to their experiences with the oil industry in their territories. Despite their geographic separation, in Central Africa and western Amazonia, the acculturation process and its outcomes have been quite similar for the Bagyeli and the Waorani. In both cases, expectations for improvements in quality of life were high as the oil industry arrived but tremendous disappointments s…
From a Blind Spot to a Nexus
Ecotourism is primarily perceived and studied as an alternative to resource extraction, even though increasingly the two coexist side by side in a nexus. This article investigates how such instances of copresence are marginalized in literatures about ecotourism and extraction, constituting a “blind spot“ in academic literature. An extensive literature review focuses on the existing knowledge trends and paradigms in the production of knowledge abo…
‘Pedagogical’ and Ethnographic Fictions and Meta-narratives of Development
This article focuses on the development-themed Manga series entitled 1 World Manga, a World Bank/Viz Media project that follows the adventures of a young orphan boy, who ‘discovers that the only way to become a true warrior is to understand the challenges facing the poor and disadvantaged people he befriends along the way’. I argue that the series generates a pedagogical meta-narrative of ‘development’ that engages behavioural and situational, ra…
Ecotourism and Cultural Production
Ecotourism is a unique facet of globalization, promising the possibility of reconciling the juggernaut of development with ecological/cultural conservation. Davidov offers a comparative analysis of th
The Ecotourism-Extraction Nexus
Users are allowed to access the Full text of this item within the IP range of the university. URL : www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203384855
Amazonia as pharmacopia
This article analyzes the commonly deployed imaginary of the Amazon as a pharmacopia - a cornucopia of ethnomedicinal cures unheard of in the West. Using several fictional narratives (two novels and a film) as a starting point, I explore how the Western imaginary of the Amazon as a pharmacopia is a discursive variation on the environmental imaginary of the Amazon as the "lungs of world" - a vulnerable entity of high import and in need of protecti…
Mining versus Oil Extraction
En el Ecuador postneoliberal la ecopolítica esta flanqueada entre la extracción petrolífera y la minería, siendo el primer caso un ejemplo del fracaso de las políticas neoliberales, mientras el segundo es reflejo de las promesas populistas. Este artículo analiza cómo en Intag el activismo antiminería refleja este cambio en las políticas neoliberales desde un estado petrolero a un estado "nuevo y progresivo" que defiende una agenda prominería. En …
Discordant Development
Land, Copper, Flora
This article examines the nuances of different constructions and meanings of "natural resources" in Ecuador. Focusing on the biodiverse and copper-rich region of Intag, I show how once a process of commodification of natural materials is underway-in a place where the biophysical specificities of soil, minerals, and flora map onto extractive, as well as "green" economies of value-there is an emergence of what I call "metonymic materiality," a disc…
A Future for Amazonia
Beyond Formal Environmentalism
The frame of "environmentalism" in academic and policy literature onRussia tends to focus on the "formal" environmentalism sector inRussia, thereby relegating phenomena such as the conservative, eco-spiritual "Anastasia" or "RingingCedars" movement to the domain of religious or spiritual studies. Yet this movement is significant for understanding the ecopolitical field of contemporaryRussia and the processes of meaning-making within that field. A…
Environmentally induced displacements in the ecotourism–extraction nexus
Around the world, we increasingly see the often‐deemed incongruent activities of ecotourism, associated environmental conservation and natural resource or fossil fuel extraction happening in the same spaces, often supported by the same institutions. Rather than being incongruent, however, these seemingly uncomfortable bedfellows are transforming spaces, livelihoods and social, political and environmental geographies in tandem through what we call…
Social Lives and Symbolic Capital
Lawsuits are representational arenas, as well as legal events. They serve as integrative spaces for power relations, symbolic orders, and moral economies. This article focuses on the 'social lives' of two lawsuits brought by indigenous communities to litigate issues arising from oil extraction on their territories: the Texaco lawsuit in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Beaver Lake Cree Nation lawsuit in Alberta, Canada. I analyze the narratives of i…
Introduction
Time and the NGOther
This article looks at divergent and competing understandings of temporalities in Estero de Platano, a fishing village in the Esmeraldas province of Ecuador. Through a discussion of how time can structure experience and exist as cultural capital, I explore issues of temporalities through an ethnographic lens. Specifically, I show how way how differences between NGO temporalities and local temporalities come to bear on the kind of knowledge that NG…
Biomimicry as a Meta-Resource and Megaproject
This literature review of biomimicry and related models of treating nature as a meta-resource on a mega-scale integrates concepts of resources and abundance. Biomimicry, which lies at the intersection of biosciences and industrial design, is a praxis for drawing on designs and processes found in nature and using them as inspirational sources for technologies. Environmental anthropology often focuses on processes such as extraction and commodifica…
Equity and Viability in Scholarly Publishing
Mixing Oil and Water
The Shrimp-Petroleum Festival is an annual event in Morgan City, Louisiana, that celebrates the history of the two industries in this coastal city. The festival came under media scrutiny and public criticism in the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in part because of the seeming incompatibility and incongruence of the two things being celebrated. From a local perspective, however, the convergence of the two industries is far fr…
Covid, climate and comparison
This article explores how public responses to the Covid-19 pandemic could potentially help us understand the responses to the climate crisis and its environmental catastrophes. Public responses to the pandemic, in turn, also potentially help us understand the responses to the climate crisis and its environmental catastrophes. How do these compare through our epistemological lenses? Can the various Covid-19 responses function as a projection of fu…
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