Paola Canova
Biographic Data
| ID | 166521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paola Canova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paola |
| FAMILY NAME | Canova |
| SIGNATURE | CANOVA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4598-0984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
La frontera ganadera y sus enclaves íntimos en el Chaco Paraguayo
This article explores an imaginary of the Paraguayan Chaco as a liminal social and geographical region. This liminality is reproduced at multiple levels through transgression against nature, excess infrastructure and hypermasculine work experiences. Ranching enterprises contribute to the liminality of the region by becoming 'intimate enclaves,' that is, spaces where intimate and unequal relationships between nature, humans and animals are forged,…
Reimagining the Gran Chaco
Reimagining the Gran Chaco
Intimate Sovereignty
During the mid-1920s, Mennonite settlers to the Paraguayan Chaco established a system of self-governance in a frontier region constructed and imagined at "the edge" of the state. Despite the fast-paced economic development that has rapidly transformed the region, the Mennonites have managed to remain socially and geographically isolated from the rest of the population until recently. What sustains their contemporary model of self-governance in a …
Frontier Intimacies
Until the 1960s, the Ayoreo people of Paraguay's Chaco region had remained uncontacted by the world. But as development encroached on their territory, the Ayoreo began to experience rapid cultural change. Paola Canova looks at one aspect of this change in Frontier Intimacies : the sexual practices of Ayoreo women, specifically the curajodie , or single women who exchange sex for money or material goods with non-Ayoreo men, often Mennonite settler…
Intimate Sovereignty
During the mid-1920s, Mennonite settlers to the Paraguayan Chaco established a system of self-governance in a frontier region constructed and imagined at "the edge" of the state. Despite the fast-paced economic development that has rapidly transformed the region, the Mennonites have managed to remain socially and geographically isolated from the rest of the population until recently. What sustains their contemporary model of self-governance in a …
Frontier Intimacies
Until the 1960s, the Ayoreo people of Paraguay's Chaco region had remained uncontacted by the world. But as development encroached on their territory, the Ayoreo began to experience rapid cultural change. Paola Canova looks at one aspect of this change in Frontier Intimacies : the sexual practices of Ayoreo women, specifically the curajodie , or single women who exchange sex for money or material goods with non-Ayoreo men, often Mennonite settler…
Reimagining the Gran Chaco
Reimagining the Gran Chaco
Intimate Sovereignty
During the mid-1920s, Mennonite settlers to the Paraguayan Chaco established a system of self-governance in a frontier region constructed and imagined at "the edge" of the state. Despite the fast-paced economic development that has rapidly transformed the region, the Mennonites have managed to remain socially and geographically isolated from the rest of the population until recently. What sustains their contemporary model of self-governance in a …
La frontera ganadera y sus enclaves íntimos en el Chaco Paraguayo
This article explores an imaginary of the Paraguayan Chaco as a liminal social and geographical region. This liminality is reproduced at multiple levels through transgression against nature, excess infrastructure and hypermasculine work experiences. Ranching enterprises contribute to the liminality of the region by becoming 'intimate enclaves,' that is, spaces where intimate and unequal relationships between nature, humans and animals are forged,…
Geography (4 works) · Indigenous Cultures and History (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · America (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Frontier (2 works) · History (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works)