Alejandro Ponce De Leon
Biographic Data
| ID | 131887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro Ponce De Leon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro Ponce |
| FAMILY NAME | De Leon |
| SIGNATURE | DE LEON A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4808-3373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Preposiciones y naturalezas. Una conversación entre lxs editorxs de la Plataforma Latinoamericana de Humanidades Ambientales
This text is a dialogue between the editors of Plataforma Latinoamericana de Humanidades Ambientales about the work of the collective and how prepositions help us situate ourselves environmentally from reflective, practical, and intimate perspectives. The dialogue explores the power of prepositions as ways of relating to the different worlds that make up our world, with their latent potential to serve as meeting points for articulating and defend…
Seeing (like) a basin
This article examines the emergence of river basin development within Colombian regional governance. It traces the creation of the Corporación Autónoma Regional del Valle del Cauca—a regional authority modeled after the Tennessee Valley Authority—from the formulation of its basin program in 1954 to the approval of the Calima Dam in 1960. Drawing on board minutes, reports, and expert accounts, it shows how distinct epistemic practices and ways of …
Introduction
The politics of restless motion
This article examines the early emergence of volume-based modes of water governance in southwestern Colombia. Rooted in hydrological science, volume and flow became central to the state’s efforts to render waterbodies legible to legal, technical, and infrastructural intervention. In the context of economic modernization, rivers and wetlands were no longer encountered as bounded natural features, but as volumes of water that could be inscribed on …
Energy sovereignty storytelling
In this article, we study forms of storytelling about energy sovereignty retrieved from community-based art and their implications for energy justice formulations in Latin America. Based on the visual and discursive analysis of five contemporary Latin American artistic practices, the article shows that their poetic and political engagements with energy production, consumption, and distribution build what we call “energy sovereignty storytelling.”…
From media to mediations
This essay critically reviews Jesús Martín-Barbero's 1987 book, “De los medios a las mediaciones”, and its influence on Latin American cultural studies after its first decade of publication. Highlighting the work's seminal contributions, it also underscores its participation in the emergence of dialogues and interdisciplinary studies on mass and popular culture. The essay acknowledges Martín-Barbero's distinctive intellectual practices, which set…
Word and action
The articles in this special issue address some of the conceptual innovations and controversies raised by the late Jesús Martín-Barbero's (1937–2021) combative and generous spirit. These introductory remarks provide an overview of Martín-Barbero's academic and public intellectual contributions. Specifically, we examine his personal, political, intellectual and cultural trajectories as they lead us to a core category in his thinking: mediations. W…
Teoría para la caída libre con ejercicios acompañantes
Este ensayo explora las maneras en que se enseña y aprende en el primer programa de posgrado en humanidades ambientales en América Latina, la Diplomatura Superior en Humanidades Ambientales en el cruce del Arte y la Tecnología en la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). El programa busca generar conciencia sobre la crisis socioambiental a través de un enfoque colectivo, interdisciplinario y resiliente. A partir de conversaciones con e…
América Latina y el giro botánico en los estudios culturales
Este artículo traza los contornos del reciente giro hacia la vida vegetal dentro de los estudios culturales latinoamericanos, a partir de una lectura de tres libros: el volumen editado por Monica Gagliano, John Ryan y Patrıcia Vieira The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature; el libro de Theresa Miller Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil; y The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature de Lesley Wylie. …
Ecopolitical Mapping
Ecopolitical Mapping is a methodology which seeks to map encounters of love and disaster between humans and their more-than-human surroundings. This methodology, first coined by an transdisciplinary group of artists and researchers in South Chile, unfolds through collective mapping sessions using an ecopolitical approach to trace the power relationships between different species-beings. In this research document, we unpack our engagements with th…
Genealogías latinoamericanas de las Humanidades Ambientales
Latin America and The Botanical Turn
In this essay, I discuss the turn to plant and vegetal life that has recently taken place in Latin American cultural studies. I do so by considering three recently published books on this matter: Monica Gagliano, John Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira’s edited volume The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature, Theresa Miller’s Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil, and Lesley Wylie’s The Poetics of Plants in Spanish Amer…
En medio de la violencia
This article discusses the main results of a research study on the interactions between stockbreeders and armed groups in relation to the illegal collection of funds, as narrated in the stockbreeders' testimonies and memories. The paper relies on both statistical and narrative analysis methodologies in order to explore the patterns and configurations in interactions with armed groups. It is argued here that the stockbreeders were not supporters o…
De muchas luchas
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
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What's in Your Bag, Anthropologists
En medio de la violencia
This article discusses the main results of a research study on the interactions between stockbreeders and armed groups in relation to the illegal collection of funds, as narrated in the stockbreeders' testimonies and memories. The paper relies on both statistical and narrative analysis methodologies in order to explore the patterns and configurations in interactions with armed groups. It is argued here that the stockbreeders were not supporters o…
De muchas luchas
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Ecopolitical Mapping
Ecopolitical Mapping is a methodology which seeks to map encounters of love and disaster between humans and their more-than-human surroundings. This methodology, first coined by an transdisciplinary group of artists and researchers in South Chile, unfolds through collective mapping sessions using an ecopolitical approach to trace the power relationships between different species-beings. In this research document, we unpack our engagements with th…
Genealogías latinoamericanas de las Humanidades Ambientales
Latin America and The Botanical Turn
In this essay, I discuss the turn to plant and vegetal life that has recently taken place in Latin American cultural studies. I do so by considering three recently published books on this matter: Monica Gagliano, John Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira’s edited volume The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature, Theresa Miller’s Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil, and Lesley Wylie’s The Poetics of Plants in Spanish Amer…
From media to mediations
This essay critically reviews Jesús Martín-Barbero's 1987 book, “De los medios a las mediaciones”, and its influence on Latin American cultural studies after its first decade of publication. Highlighting the work's seminal contributions, it also underscores its participation in the emergence of dialogues and interdisciplinary studies on mass and popular culture. The essay acknowledges Martín-Barbero's distinctive intellectual practices, which set…
Word and action
The articles in this special issue address some of the conceptual innovations and controversies raised by the late Jesús Martín-Barbero's (1937–2021) combative and generous spirit. These introductory remarks provide an overview of Martín-Barbero's academic and public intellectual contributions. Specifically, we examine his personal, political, intellectual and cultural trajectories as they lead us to a core category in his thinking: mediations. W…
Teoría para la caída libre con ejercicios acompañantes
Este ensayo explora las maneras en que se enseña y aprende en el primer programa de posgrado en humanidades ambientales en América Latina, la Diplomatura Superior en Humanidades Ambientales en el cruce del Arte y la Tecnología en la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). El programa busca generar conciencia sobre la crisis socioambiental a través de un enfoque colectivo, interdisciplinario y resiliente. A partir de conversaciones con e…
América Latina y el giro botánico en los estudios culturales
Este artículo traza los contornos del reciente giro hacia la vida vegetal dentro de los estudios culturales latinoamericanos, a partir de una lectura de tres libros: el volumen editado por Monica Gagliano, John Ryan y Patrıcia Vieira The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature; el libro de Theresa Miller Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil; y The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature de Lesley Wylie. …
Energy sovereignty storytelling
In this article, we study forms of storytelling about energy sovereignty retrieved from community-based art and their implications for energy justice formulations in Latin America. Based on the visual and discursive analysis of five contemporary Latin American artistic practices, the article shows that their poetic and political engagements with energy production, consumption, and distribution build what we call “energy sovereignty storytelling.”…
Preposiciones y naturalezas. Una conversación entre lxs editorxs de la Plataforma Latinoamericana de Humanidades Ambientales
This text is a dialogue between the editors of Plataforma Latinoamericana de Humanidades Ambientales about the work of the collective and how prepositions help us situate ourselves environmentally from reflective, practical, and intimate perspectives. The dialogue explores the power of prepositions as ways of relating to the different worlds that make up our world, with their latent potential to serve as meeting points for articulating and defend…
Seeing (like) a basin
This article examines the emergence of river basin development within Colombian regional governance. It traces the creation of the Corporación Autónoma Regional del Valle del Cauca—a regional authority modeled after the Tennessee Valley Authority—from the formulation of its basin program in 1954 to the approval of the Calima Dam in 1960. Drawing on board minutes, reports, and expert accounts, it shows how distinct epistemic practices and ways of …
Introduction
The politics of restless motion
This article examines the early emergence of volume-based modes of water governance in southwestern Colombia. Rooted in hydrological science, volume and flow became central to the state’s efforts to render waterbodies legible to legal, technical, and infrastructural intervention. In the context of economic modernization, rivers and wetlands were no longer encountered as bounded natural features, but as volumes of water that could be inscribed on …
Political science (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Latin Americans (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)