Teresa A Velásquez
Biographic Data
| ID | 179656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teresa A Velásquez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teresa A |
| FAMILY NAME | Velásquez |
| SIGNATURE | VELÁSQUEZ T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, San Bernardino |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women’s plot-labor: Commoning against extractivism and the cultivation of emancipatory futures in Ecuador
Pachamama Politics: Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador
Efficacy of the Therapeutic Game “Trisquel” in the Treatment of Patients With Substance-Related Disorders Randomized Clinical Study
Substance-related disorders (SRD) have been consistently associated with alterations both in cognitive and executive functions, which affect to patients' quality of life. The main objective of this work was to test the beneficial cognitive effects on patients with SRD after the implementation of "Trisquel," an intervention program in board game format. To check the effectiveness of Trisquel program, a group of people diagnosed with SRD was random…
Producing ethical water: Anti-mining activism and conflicts over municipal water provisioning in Cuenca, Ecuador
When gold deposits were confirmed in a community watershed in 2005, water became a politically charged arena for anti-mining activism. This article follows the outcomes of a 2014 Ecuadorian water law on conflicts over water provisioning. Arguments about water's material properties and social qualities were deployed by government, municipal, and local actors in contests over who had legitimate authority to govern rural water systems. Claims about …
From Canadian Dragons to Pristine Páramos: Visual Discourses in the Campaign to Defend Ecuadorian Páramos from Gold Extraction
Research Article| October 01 2019 From Canadian Dragons to Pristine Páramos: Visual Discourses in the Campaign to Defend Ecuadorian Páramos from Gold Extraction Teresa A. Velásquez Teresa A. Velásquez California State University, San Bernardino Teresa A. Velásquez—is an associate professor of anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino. Her ongoing research in Ecuador examines water, science, law, and identity politics in neoextra…
Tracing the Political Life of Kimsacocha: Conflicts over Water and Mining in Ecuador's Southern Andes
In 2009, farmers in the highlands of Ecuador challenged a proposed water law by staging public rituals to venerate their watershed, called Kimsacocha, as the embodiment of the Pachamama (Mother Earth). They rejected the proposed law because it allowed for mineral extraction in communal watersheds. They argued that human and nonhuman entities are interconnected and that the state should designate communal watersheds as no-mining zones to defend th…
Enacting refusals: Mestiza women's anti-mining activism in Andean Ecuador
Subaltern mestiza women are protagonists in anti-mining activism in Ecuador, but few works consider the racial and gendered dimensions of their political practices. Drawing upon activist research methods, this paper examines the role of ethnographic ‘refusals’ in the collective practices of campesina women. I argue that refusals, predicated upon speaking, are critical to forging a collective identity as a ‘defensora’: a woman who defends land and…
Tracing the Political Life of Kimsacocha: Conflicts over Water and Mining in Ecuador's Southern Andes
In 2009, farmers in the highlands of Ecuador challenged a proposed water law by staging public rituals to venerate their watershed, called Kimsacocha, as the embodiment of the Pachamama (Mother Earth). They rejected the proposed law because it allowed for mineral extraction in communal watersheds. They argued that human and nonhuman entities are interconnected and that the state should designate communal watersheds as no-mining zones to defend th…
Producing ethical water: Anti-mining activism and conflicts over municipal water provisioning in Cuenca, Ecuador
When gold deposits were confirmed in a community watershed in 2005, water became a politically charged arena for anti-mining activism. This article follows the outcomes of a 2014 Ecuadorian water law on conflicts over water provisioning. Arguments about water's material properties and social qualities were deployed by government, municipal, and local actors in contests over who had legitimate authority to govern rural water systems. Claims about …
Enacting refusals: Mestiza women's anti-mining activism in Andean Ecuador
Subaltern mestiza women are protagonists in anti-mining activism in Ecuador, but few works consider the racial and gendered dimensions of their political practices. Drawing upon activist research methods, this paper examines the role of ethnographic ‘refusals’ in the collective practices of campesina women. I argue that refusals, predicated upon speaking, are critical to forging a collective identity as a ‘defensora’: a woman who defends land and…
Enacting refusals: Mestiza women's anti-mining activism in Andean Ecuador
Subaltern mestiza women are protagonists in anti-mining activism in Ecuador, but few works consider the racial and gendered dimensions of their political practices. Drawing upon activist research methods, this paper examines the role of ethnographic ‘refusals’ in the collective practices of campesina women. I argue that refusals, predicated upon speaking, are critical to forging a collective identity as a ‘defensora’: a woman who defends land and…
Tracing the Political Life of Kimsacocha: Conflicts over Water and Mining in Ecuador's Southern Andes
In 2009, farmers in the highlands of Ecuador challenged a proposed water law by staging public rituals to venerate their watershed, called Kimsacocha, as the embodiment of the Pachamama (Mother Earth). They rejected the proposed law because it allowed for mineral extraction in communal watersheds. They argued that human and nonhuman entities are interconnected and that the state should designate communal watersheds as no-mining zones to defend th…
From Canadian Dragons to Pristine Páramos: Visual Discourses in the Campaign to Defend Ecuadorian Páramos from Gold Extraction
Research Article| October 01 2019 From Canadian Dragons to Pristine Páramos: Visual Discourses in the Campaign to Defend Ecuadorian Páramos from Gold Extraction Teresa A. Velásquez Teresa A. Velásquez California State University, San Bernardino Teresa A. Velásquez—is an associate professor of anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino. Her ongoing research in Ecuador examines water, science, law, and identity politics in neoextra…
Pachamama Politics: Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador
Efficacy of the Therapeutic Game “Trisquel” in the Treatment of Patients With Substance-Related Disorders Randomized Clinical Study
Substance-related disorders (SRD) have been consistently associated with alterations both in cognitive and executive functions, which affect to patients' quality of life. The main objective of this work was to test the beneficial cognitive effects on patients with SRD after the implementation of "Trisquel," an intervention program in board game format. To check the effectiveness of Trisquel program, a group of people diagnosed with SRD was random…
Producing ethical water: Anti-mining activism and conflicts over municipal water provisioning in Cuenca, Ecuador
When gold deposits were confirmed in a community watershed in 2005, water became a politically charged arena for anti-mining activism. This article follows the outcomes of a 2014 Ecuadorian water law on conflicts over water provisioning. Arguments about water's material properties and social qualities were deployed by government, municipal, and local actors in contests over who had legitimate authority to govern rural water systems. Claims about …
Women’s plot-labor: Commoning against extractivism and the cultivation of emancipatory futures in Ecuador
Law (5 works) · Mining and Resource Management (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)