Alejandro Camargo
Biographic Data
| ID | 146704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro Camargo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Camargo |
| SIGNATURE | CAMARGO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad del Norte |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5812-8416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Multiple crises
Today, we, as humanity, seem to be in a constant state of crisis. Kathryn Furlong calls attention to the importance of looking at everyday life to better understand how crises unfold, not as exceptional events but as a lived and recurrent experience. A crucial lesson from Furlong's reflection about crisis is that it is a quotidian phenomenon in which different scales, meanings and relations converge. From the most intimate and subjective, to the …
Amphibious Anthropologies: Living in Wet Environments
Defending water and life: Domestic ecologies and social reproduction in Buenaventura
During the last four decades, communities in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia's main seaport, have mobilized in order to access public water services. Privatization, poor infrastructural maintenance, and intermittence have made access to water a matter of concern. In this context, the Committee for the Defense of Water and Life came into being in 2014, as an urban grassroots organization, making calls on the city's population to mobilize for th…
How is Climate Change Changing Agrarian Studies
A range of compelling recent literature highlights how climate change is rewriting the intertwined social and environmental processes that comprise agrarian landscapes. Mainstream reaction has been to double down on technical intensification strategies supplemented by a resolute faith in scientific advancement to reduce vulnerabilities. For critical agrarian studies, however, climate change raises new conceptual and methodological challenges. Has…
Contested mangroves: Land Struggles and the Gendered and Racialized Geographies of Climate Change
Climate change manifests historically and spatially in uneven geographies of responsibility, vulnerability and adaptation. Urban and tourism expansion on the city's margins in Cartagena, Colombia, has led to the criminalization and dispossession of land, water, and mangroves in Black communities who resist racism, ecological degradation, and climate vulnerability. We analyse how Black women in marginalized communities adapt, integrate, and reshap…
Infraestructuras: Poder, Espacio, Etnografía
La vida cotidiana transcurre en medio de infraestructuras que se expanden, se contraen, se deterioran, se renuevan, aparecen y desaparecen. Pensemos en la interconexión vial Yatí-Bodega en las llanuras del Caribe colombiano. Este mega-proyecto consiste en una infraestructura vial de 12 kilómetros que incluye 2 puen-tes: Santa Lucía, de 1 kilómetro de longitud, y Roncador, de 2,3 kilómetros. Este último es el puente más largo del país. El objetivo…
Imagined transitions: Agrarian capitalism and climate change adaptation in Colombia
Climate change has significantly affected rural lives around the world. Adaptation, as a political response to this situation, interacts with longer trajectories of agrarian capitalism and peasant's expectations for the future. Through the concept of imagined transitions, this article explores how peasants of northern Colombia manufacture and project their own transition to an agrarian capitalist future in the aftermath of climate-related floods …
Voices of Water and Violence: Exhibition Making and the Blue Humanities for Transitional Justice
This article examines how the relationships between water and violence are represented as objects for public museum exhibitions in order to guarantee symbolic reparations in a transitional justice context. Using the 2018–2019 exhibition Voces para transformar a Colombia, we show that considering a non‐human element such as water in this context requires a methodological reflection about how to expand the notion of victimhood to include nature. Af…
Mundos que colapsan
Vivimos en un mundo que amenaza con colapsar de múltiples formas. El cambio climático, la intensificación de desastres ambientales a escala planetaria y la pandemia del Covid-19 son algunos de los principales fenómenos que, al amenazar nuestra existencia, nos recuerdan también la ambivalencia de las fuerzas vitales. Por un lado, se reafirma la idea del Antropoceno, una reificación del dominio de los humanos sobre la tierra que los ha convertido e…
Zika assemblages: Women, Populationism, and the Geographies of Epidemiological Surveillance
In 2016, during the Zika epidemic, scientists discovered another disturbing effect of the virus: pregnant women with the Zika virus faced the risk of having babies with microcephaly. Governments and international organizations responded by encouraging women to delay pregnancy and also by surveying their domestic spaces and water management practices. Feminist scholars and activists criticized these measures as ignoring barriers to quality reprodu…
Convivir con el agua
Land born of water: Property, stasis, and motion in the floodplains of northern Colombia
Ambivalent desires: State formation and dispossession in the face of climate crisis
Dan Brockington, Rosaleen Duffy, and Jim Igoe: Nature unbound: conservation, capitalism and the future of protected areas
Una tierra bondadosa: Progreso y recursos naturales en la región del río San Jorge, siglo XX
This article discusses how different groups valued the natural resources in the region of the San Jorge River over the course of the twentieth century. Some people saw them as pantry of natural resources for the taking while other warned of their over-exploitation. In the case of fishing, resource conflicts date back to at least the eighteenth century. The role of the state in this work is seen as ahistoric, characterized by its desire to foment …
Imagined transitions: Agrarian capitalism and climate change adaptation in Colombia
Climate change has significantly affected rural lives around the world. Adaptation, as a political response to this situation, interacts with longer trajectories of agrarian capitalism and peasant's expectations for the future. Through the concept of imagined transitions, this article explores how peasants of northern Colombia manufacture and project their own transition to an agrarian capitalist future in the aftermath of climate-related floods …
Ambivalent desires: State formation and dispossession in the face of climate crisis
Land born of water: Property, stasis, and motion in the floodplains of northern Colombia
Zika assemblages: Women, Populationism, and the Geographies of Epidemiological Surveillance
In 2016, during the Zika epidemic, scientists discovered another disturbing effect of the virus: pregnant women with the Zika virus faced the risk of having babies with microcephaly. Governments and international organizations responded by encouraging women to delay pregnancy and also by surveying their domestic spaces and water management practices. Feminist scholars and activists criticized these measures as ignoring barriers to quality reprodu…
Contested mangroves: Land Struggles and the Gendered and Racialized Geographies of Climate Change
Climate change manifests historically and spatially in uneven geographies of responsibility, vulnerability and adaptation. Urban and tourism expansion on the city's margins in Cartagena, Colombia, has led to the criminalization and dispossession of land, water, and mangroves in Black communities who resist racism, ecological degradation, and climate vulnerability. We analyse how Black women in marginalized communities adapt, integrate, and reshap…
Convivir con el agua
Infraestructuras: Poder, Espacio, Etnografía
La vida cotidiana transcurre en medio de infraestructuras que se expanden, se contraen, se deterioran, se renuevan, aparecen y desaparecen. Pensemos en la interconexión vial Yatí-Bodega en las llanuras del Caribe colombiano. Este mega-proyecto consiste en una infraestructura vial de 12 kilómetros que incluye 2 puen-tes: Santa Lucía, de 1 kilómetro de longitud, y Roncador, de 2,3 kilómetros. Este último es el puente más largo del país. El objetivo…
Defending water and life: Domestic ecologies and social reproduction in Buenaventura
During the last four decades, communities in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia's main seaport, have mobilized in order to access public water services. Privatization, poor infrastructural maintenance, and intermittence have made access to water a matter of concern. In this context, the Committee for the Defense of Water and Life came into being in 2014, as an urban grassroots organization, making calls on the city's population to mobilize for th…
How is Climate Change Changing Agrarian Studies
A range of compelling recent literature highlights how climate change is rewriting the intertwined social and environmental processes that comprise agrarian landscapes. Mainstream reaction has been to double down on technical intensification strategies supplemented by a resolute faith in scientific advancement to reduce vulnerabilities. For critical agrarian studies, however, climate change raises new conceptual and methodological challenges. Has…
Una tierra bondadosa: Progreso y recursos naturales en la región del río San Jorge, siglo XX
This article discusses how different groups valued the natural resources in the region of the San Jorge River over the course of the twentieth century. Some people saw them as pantry of natural resources for the taking while other warned of their over-exploitation. In the case of fishing, resource conflicts date back to at least the eighteenth century. The role of the state in this work is seen as ahistoric, characterized by its desire to foment …
Una tierra bondadosa: Progreso y recursos naturales en la región del río San Jorge, siglo XX
This article discusses how different groups valued the natural resources in the region of the San Jorge River over the course of the twentieth century. Some people saw them as pantry of natural resources for the taking while other warned of their over-exploitation. In the case of fishing, resource conflicts date back to at least the eighteenth century. The role of the state in this work is seen as ahistoric, characterized by its desire to foment …
Dan Brockington, Rosaleen Duffy, and Jim Igoe: Nature unbound: conservation, capitalism and the future of protected areas
Land born of water: Property, stasis, and motion in the floodplains of northern Colombia
Ambivalent desires: State formation and dispossession in the face of climate crisis
Convivir con el agua
Zika assemblages: Women, Populationism, and the Geographies of Epidemiological Surveillance
In 2016, during the Zika epidemic, scientists discovered another disturbing effect of the virus: pregnant women with the Zika virus faced the risk of having babies with microcephaly. Governments and international organizations responded by encouraging women to delay pregnancy and also by surveying their domestic spaces and water management practices. Feminist scholars and activists criticized these measures as ignoring barriers to quality reprodu…
Voices of Water and Violence: Exhibition Making and the Blue Humanities for Transitional Justice
This article examines how the relationships between water and violence are represented as objects for public museum exhibitions in order to guarantee symbolic reparations in a transitional justice context. Using the 2018–2019 exhibition Voces para transformar a Colombia, we show that considering a non‐human element such as water in this context requires a methodological reflection about how to expand the notion of victimhood to include nature. Af…
Mundos que colapsan
Vivimos en un mundo que amenaza con colapsar de múltiples formas. El cambio climático, la intensificación de desastres ambientales a escala planetaria y la pandemia del Covid-19 son algunos de los principales fenómenos que, al amenazar nuestra existencia, nos recuerdan también la ambivalencia de las fuerzas vitales. Por un lado, se reafirma la idea del Antropoceno, una reificación del dominio de los humanos sobre la tierra que los ha convertido e…
Infraestructuras: Poder, Espacio, Etnografía
La vida cotidiana transcurre en medio de infraestructuras que se expanden, se contraen, se deterioran, se renuevan, aparecen y desaparecen. Pensemos en la interconexión vial Yatí-Bodega en las llanuras del Caribe colombiano. Este mega-proyecto consiste en una infraestructura vial de 12 kilómetros que incluye 2 puen-tes: Santa Lucía, de 1 kilómetro de longitud, y Roncador, de 2,3 kilómetros. Este último es el puente más largo del país. El objetivo…
Imagined transitions: Agrarian capitalism and climate change adaptation in Colombia
Climate change has significantly affected rural lives around the world. Adaptation, as a political response to this situation, interacts with longer trajectories of agrarian capitalism and peasant's expectations for the future. Through the concept of imagined transitions, this article explores how peasants of northern Colombia manufacture and project their own transition to an agrarian capitalist future in the aftermath of climate-related floods …
Amphibious Anthropologies: Living in Wet Environments
Defending water and life: Domestic ecologies and social reproduction in Buenaventura
During the last four decades, communities in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia's main seaport, have mobilized in order to access public water services. Privatization, poor infrastructural maintenance, and intermittence have made access to water a matter of concern. In this context, the Committee for the Defense of Water and Life came into being in 2014, as an urban grassroots organization, making calls on the city's population to mobilize for th…
How is Climate Change Changing Agrarian Studies
A range of compelling recent literature highlights how climate change is rewriting the intertwined social and environmental processes that comprise agrarian landscapes. Mainstream reaction has been to double down on technical intensification strategies supplemented by a resolute faith in scientific advancement to reduce vulnerabilities. For critical agrarian studies, however, climate change raises new conceptual and methodological challenges. Has…
Contested mangroves: Land Struggles and the Gendered and Racialized Geographies of Climate Change
Climate change manifests historically and spatially in uneven geographies of responsibility, vulnerability and adaptation. Urban and tourism expansion on the city's margins in Cartagena, Colombia, has led to the criminalization and dispossession of land, water, and mangroves in Black communities who resist racism, ecological degradation, and climate vulnerability. We analyse how Black women in marginalized communities adapt, integrate, and reshap…
Multiple crises
Today, we, as humanity, seem to be in a constant state of crisis. Kathryn Furlong calls attention to the importance of looking at everyday life to better understand how crises unfold, not as exceptional events but as a lived and recurrent experience. A crucial lesson from Furlong's reflection about crisis is that it is a quotidian phenomenon in which different scales, meanings and relations converge. From the most intimate and subjective, to the …
Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (7 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Climate change (4 works) · Economics (4 works)