Daniel Ruiz‐serna
Biographic Data
| ID | 146752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Ruiz‐serna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Ruiz‐serna |
| SIGNATURE | SERNA D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4583-2180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tracing Animals in Forests and on Paper: Drawings and Relational Understandings of Life and Place
This paper examines the encoding power of drawings as vehicles for ethnographic conceptualization. By comparing a set of drawings collected by the author in the Western Amazon with illustrations from scientific field guides, this textexplores how images of animals do more than merely represent species. Instead, it is argued, drawings actively enact particular versions of nature. In doing so, they not only open possibilities for understanding natu…
Transitional Justice beyond the Human
Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples often describe the harm caused by armed conflict in terms of damage inflicted on their traditional territories. To these peoples, the concept of territory makes reference not only to their lands but to a set of emplaced practices and relationships through which they share life with wider assemblages of human and other-than-human beings. It is the threat faced by these large communities of life that was invoke…
Espectros
Inside a jaguar's jaws: On the hybrid afterlives of warfare
Inspired by the case of a jaguar raised as a pet by some paramilitary warlords, this article discusses how armed conflict encompasses more-than-human realities, becoming a hybrid experience capable of dislocating the borders between environmental and social processes, predation and warfare, human and nonhuman agency, and subjects and objects. It draws attention to a pervasive form of damage-afterlives-that stays with people in ways that compel us…
Feral Animals, Rastrojo, and Dispossession: Images of the Afterlives of War in Bajo Atrato, Colombia
This article examines the ruinous traces left by armed conflict in the villages of Afro-Colombian rural peoples living in Bajo Atrato, a region located in the Colombian Pacific lowlands. Through a set of images that illustrate the way animals and plants participate in the decline of abandoned houses and fields, I argue that war is not just a phenomenon unfolding in particular places but rather a force producing such places. Attention to the lasti…
Ecúmene de vivos y muertos: Mala muerte y reparaciones territoriales en el Bajo Atrato
En las selvas del Bajo Atrato, los combates entre guerrillas y paramilitares dejaron decenas de cuerpos sin enterrar que, transformados ahora en espíritus, han alterado las posibilidades que tienen las comunidades locales de habitar y sanar sus territorios colectivos. Sostengo que estos espíritus hacen parte de un conjunto más amplio de experiencias de dolor y sufrimiento que se inscriben en ámbitos que rebasan lo humano. Argumento que dichas exp…
Threads of Life and Death: A Photo Essay on Hunting and Fishing in N orthwest A mazonia
This essay describes the enchanted, sylvan world of a peasant community from L a M acarena, a protected area located in C olombia. Often depicted as invaders or destroyers of natural resources, these peasant societies have had little place in popular and academic representations of A mazonia. Through the use of images that depict some of the tools and practices associated with hunting and fishing, this essay aims to describe some of the elements …
Feral Animals, Rastrojo, and Dispossession: Images of the Afterlives of War in Bajo Atrato, Colombia
This article examines the ruinous traces left by armed conflict in the villages of Afro-Colombian rural peoples living in Bajo Atrato, a region located in the Colombian Pacific lowlands. Through a set of images that illustrate the way animals and plants participate in the decline of abandoned houses and fields, I argue that war is not just a phenomenon unfolding in particular places but rather a force producing such places. Attention to the lasti…
Transitional Justice beyond the Human
Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples often describe the harm caused by armed conflict in terms of damage inflicted on their traditional territories. To these peoples, the concept of territory makes reference not only to their lands but to a set of emplaced practices and relationships through which they share life with wider assemblages of human and other-than-human beings. It is the threat faced by these large communities of life that was invoke…
Inside a jaguar's jaws: On the hybrid afterlives of warfare
Inspired by the case of a jaguar raised as a pet by some paramilitary warlords, this article discusses how armed conflict encompasses more-than-human realities, becoming a hybrid experience capable of dislocating the borders between environmental and social processes, predation and warfare, human and nonhuman agency, and subjects and objects. It draws attention to a pervasive form of damage-afterlives-that stays with people in ways that compel us…
Ecúmene de vivos y muertos: Mala muerte y reparaciones territoriales en el Bajo Atrato
En las selvas del Bajo Atrato, los combates entre guerrillas y paramilitares dejaron decenas de cuerpos sin enterrar que, transformados ahora en espíritus, han alterado las posibilidades que tienen las comunidades locales de habitar y sanar sus territorios colectivos. Sostengo que estos espíritus hacen parte de un conjunto más amplio de experiencias de dolor y sufrimiento que se inscriben en ámbitos que rebasan lo humano. Argumento que dichas exp…
Threads of Life and Death: A Photo Essay on Hunting and Fishing in N orthwest A mazonia
This essay describes the enchanted, sylvan world of a peasant community from L a M acarena, a protected area located in C olombia. Often depicted as invaders or destroyers of natural resources, these peasant societies have had little place in popular and academic representations of A mazonia. Through the use of images that depict some of the tools and practices associated with hunting and fishing, this essay aims to describe some of the elements …
Threads of Life and Death: A Photo Essay on Hunting and Fishing in N orthwest A mazonia
This essay describes the enchanted, sylvan world of a peasant community from L a M acarena, a protected area located in C olombia. Often depicted as invaders or destroyers of natural resources, these peasant societies have had little place in popular and academic representations of A mazonia. Through the use of images that depict some of the tools and practices associated with hunting and fishing, this essay aims to describe some of the elements …
Ecúmene de vivos y muertos: Mala muerte y reparaciones territoriales en el Bajo Atrato
En las selvas del Bajo Atrato, los combates entre guerrillas y paramilitares dejaron decenas de cuerpos sin enterrar que, transformados ahora en espíritus, han alterado las posibilidades que tienen las comunidades locales de habitar y sanar sus territorios colectivos. Sostengo que estos espíritus hacen parte de un conjunto más amplio de experiencias de dolor y sufrimiento que se inscriben en ámbitos que rebasan lo humano. Argumento que dichas exp…
Feral Animals, Rastrojo, and Dispossession: Images of the Afterlives of War in Bajo Atrato, Colombia
This article examines the ruinous traces left by armed conflict in the villages of Afro-Colombian rural peoples living in Bajo Atrato, a region located in the Colombian Pacific lowlands. Through a set of images that illustrate the way animals and plants participate in the decline of abandoned houses and fields, I argue that war is not just a phenomenon unfolding in particular places but rather a force producing such places. Attention to the lasti…
Transitional Justice beyond the Human
Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples often describe the harm caused by armed conflict in terms of damage inflicted on their traditional territories. To these peoples, the concept of territory makes reference not only to their lands but to a set of emplaced practices and relationships through which they share life with wider assemblages of human and other-than-human beings. It is the threat faced by these large communities of life that was invoke…
Espectros
Inside a jaguar's jaws: On the hybrid afterlives of warfare
Inspired by the case of a jaguar raised as a pet by some paramilitary warlords, this article discusses how armed conflict encompasses more-than-human realities, becoming a hybrid experience capable of dislocating the borders between environmental and social processes, predation and warfare, human and nonhuman agency, and subjects and objects. It draws attention to a pervasive form of damage-afterlives-that stays with people in ways that compel us…
Tracing Animals in Forests and on Paper: Drawings and Relational Understandings of Life and Place
This paper examines the encoding power of drawings as vehicles for ethnographic conceptualization. By comparing a set of drawings collected by the author in the Western Amazon with illustrations from scientific field guides, this textexplores how images of animals do more than merely represent species. Instead, it is argued, drawings actively enact particular versions of nature. In doing so, they not only open possibilities for understanding natu…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works)