Ricardo Alvarez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ricardo Alvarez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ricardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Alvarez |
| SIGNATURE | ALVAREZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austral University of Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0987-6717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Aparejos para una teoría antropológica latinoamericana
Stripped of their historical context, concepts take on a life of their own and end up dictating the lives of others. The chronic dependence on North Atlantic theoretical perspectives has resulted in the reconfiguration of local thinking according to matrices that are foreign to it. In this article we intend to make a reverse journey through the concept of maritorio and its role in a conceptual organization consistent with regional research trajec…
The Intertidal Zone of the Chiloé Archipelago (Chile)
This study reviews the ontological and worldview dimensions of the island inhabitants of the Chiloé archipelago in southern Chile and their contribution to sustaining the ecosystem relationships that include them, with a special focus on the intertidal zone. These dimensions act by mediating people’s behaviour when implemented as long-standing traditional customs in a practical way (e.g., gathering or fishing), mitigating potential negative impac…
From the Streets to the Stage
This article examines two professional brass bands from Central Chile, La Bandalismo from Valparaíso and Banda Conmoción from Santiago, which have built successful careers in the contemporary music scene by merging infectious dance rhythms and diverse musical styles with a strong commitment to activism. The study investigates how these bands’ artistic paths and public roles demonstrate a balance between entertaining audiences and engaging with so…
Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity
In the context of climate change, biodiversity decline and social injustice, reciprocity emerges as a way of living and being in this world that holds transformative potential. Concepts of reciprocity vary and are enacted in specific cultural practices grounded in Indigenous and local knowledge systems. This editorial synthesises first‐hand evidence of how practising reciprocity can result in positive reciprocal contributions between people and n…
Reciprocal contributions
The recovery of marine ecosystems in areas heavily impacted by fishing and environmental exploitation depends, to some extent, on the sustainable management of resources and should be complemented by cultural traditions, practices and scientific knowledge. These knowledge systems may involve reciprocal actions and interactions between people and coastal environments, which, unfortunately, are often overlooked in government coastal management stra…
"Cosechar La Marea" Experiencias De Mujeres Recolectoras De Orilla en Islas Menores Del Sur-Austral De Chile
El siguiente trabajo presenta los resultados de una investigacin que describe y analiza los procesos de pesca artesanal, recoleccin de orilla, particularmente algas y mariscos, realizados por mujeres que habitan algunas de las islas menores del sur-austral de Chile.A travs de un diseo etnogrfico que combin entrevistas, tcnicas cartogrficas y observaciones mviles, se da cuenta de las prcticas relacionales involucradas en estos procesos, las cuales…
Artilugios de plástico y habitabilidad en las islas del mar interior de Chiloé
El ingenio es una habilidad de muy larga data en las islas del mar interior de Chiloé, en el sur de Chile. Es referido por sus propios habitantes como parte importante de su identidad, que los distingue de quienes se han ido a vivir a las ciudades donde “está todo hecho”. Hoy en día han activado nuevamente el ingenio para transformar grandes volúmenes de basura industrial, principalmente de origen acuícola, pero también pesquero artesanal, en art…
Spatial assessment of risks faced by marine protected areas in Chilean Patagonia
Spatial assessment of the risks faced by marine habitats provides essential information for adaptation to the impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors. Climate change is one of the main stressors affecting the persistence and resilience of healthy marine ecosystems. However, protection against other stressors such as marine habitat loss and direct exploitation of natural marine resources is needed to ensure that conservation efforts are not th…
Otros-que-humanos
Se problematiza la enunciación 'otros-que-humanos' en torno a implementación de la ley Lafkenche (ley 20.249) y la producción de narrativas favorables y desfavorables a la implementación de Espacios Costeros Marinos de los Pueblos Originarios (Ecmpo). A partir de enfoques poshumanistas y del giro ontológico en la antropología, el presente artículo explora teóricamente las manifestaciones ontológicas de las relaciones entre seres humanos y 'otros-…
Youth Comparsas in Valparaíso (Chile)
Comparsas are known as group of people dressed in a similar way who participate in carnivals playing music, dancing and representing something. In Latin America the term was used for group of performers in urban carnivals in places such as Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay) in xix century, including Afro rhythms. These comparsas porteñas have been the main influence for youth comparsas formed in Valparaíso Region in Chile during th…
De Chauracabí a Osorno
La arqueologa histrica de la
Sensing Lights
The technological transformation behind intelligent infrastructure systems requires institutional and stakeholder realignment in their development. In this article, we evaluate the challenges for the production of smart infrastructure through an in-depth analysis of the development of smart street lighting strategies. We conduct surveys and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders and industry leaders in public illumination, as well with …
Es sustentable la salmonicultura en Chile? Enmarcando narrativas en disputa sobre la actividad salmonera en la Patagonia
En la Patagonia Chilena se ha hecho cada vez más visible el conflicto entre diferentes actores respecto al acceso y uso del entorno marino-costero y sus recursos naturales. La industria del salmón ha sido la piedra angular del modelo de desarrollo impulsado por el Estado y los privados, organizando el territorio a su medida. A pesar de que sus impactos ambientales y sociales se han intensificado en los últimos años, la salmonicultura ha sabido co…
Urban Play
Why technology is most transformative when it is playful, and innovative spatial design happens only when designers are both tinkerers and dreamers. In Urban Play, Fábio Duarte and Ricardo Álvarez argue that the merely functional aspects of technology may undermine its transformative power. Technology is powerful not when it becomes optimally functional, but while it is still playful and open to experimentation. It is through play—in the sense of…
Evaluating the Human Experience of Autonomous Boats with Immersive Virtual Reality
Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are an emergent technology. The very few studies focusing on how people perceive and react to autonomous vehicles are mainly based on online surveys. Although important, these studies measure people‘s opinions on AVs, but not their actual reaction when using them. In this paper, we assess users‘ perceptions of AVs using an immersive virtual reality experiment. We modeled autonomous boats that are intended to be deployed …
Espacios Costeros Marinos para Pueblos Originarios
Los Espacios Costeros Marinos para Pueblos Originarios (ECMPOs) son áreas delimitadas de la zona marino-costera, cuyo objetivo es el resguardo de los usos consuetudinarios practicados por comunidades indígenas asentadas en la zona costera de Chile. Analizamos las implicancias analíticas y políticas del concepto de uso consuetudinario en el marco de los ECMPOs. Consideramos que el uso consuetudinario de un determinado espacio marino-costero se bas…
La vida después de la devastación
El deterioro de los procesos vitales del planeta producto de las constantes crisis y desastres ambientales nos obliga a repensar la tragedia de los comunes como ejercicios sociopolíticos de regeneración de la vida en territorios devastados. El artículo analiza cuatro casos asociados a la degradación y regeneración de los comunes en Chile y Brasil, revelando que los siniestros normativos anteceden a las catástrofes socioambientales; que el desplie…
Rebounding From Extractivism
This study analyses the use of traditional fishing weirs in the Interior Sea of Chilo, in southern Chile. Although fishing weirs were in operation the time of the arrival of the first Europeans in the area in the mid-16th Century, when the indigenous Chono and Williche populations led distinctly aquapelagic lifestyles, we contend that they proliferated in subsequent centuries during the process of mestizaje (mixing) between indigenous populations…
Re-Imagining Streetlight Infrastructure as a Digital Urban Platform
Urban infrastructures have traditionally been mono-functional: water, sewage, and electricity are notable examples. Embedded with digital technologies, urban infrastructures have the potential to communicate with one another and become multi-functional platforms that integrate data gathering and actuation cycles. In this paper, we focus on public lighting infrastructures. Despite the technological development of lights, including LED technology, …
Spatial Design and Placemaking
Spatial design and placemaking are fundamental to create a vibrant urban life, whereas video games are designed primarily for temporary amusement. However, they both share the same essence of creating large-scale artificial environments for human interaction as their fundamental value. Video game developers have been successfully using spatial design tools to create virtual environments to engage players and build narratives, understanding, and a…
Legal dispossession and civil war in Colombia
How are institutions that regulate property rights related to the massive coercive dispossession of land that took place during the Colombian conflict? How did the workings of these institutions change during the conflict? We answer these questions through an analysis of a unique data set of rulings on land restitution issued between 2012 and 2015. The paper argues that the exclusionary nature of the institutions that regulate the access and assi…
Usos consuetudinarios, conflictos actuales y conservación en el borde costero de Chiloé insular
Se describe el modelo consuetudinario prevalente en la ocupación del borde costero de Chiloé insular a partir de información histórica y de observaciones y relatos testimoniales de residentes de comunidades costeras. Analizamos las formas de regulación tradicionales en el acceso a la naturaleza, las que se contrastan con las surgidas a raíz de la expansión de la industria pesquera. Se identifican los rasgos principales del modelo consuetudinario,…
Microbiological safety of baked and fried arepas
Arepas (the national bread of Venezuela) are prepared and consumed by a large proportion of the Venezuelan and Latin American population, and their popularity is increasing in numerous ethnic restaurants. Very little is known about the bacterial and fungal composition of baked and fried arepas or about the changes undergone by the microbial floia during their production. Arepas were prepared by adding salt and water to corn flour, mixing and shap…
Selected nutritional and biochemical changes during the production of baked and fried arepas
Arepa is an unleavened bread made of corn, kneaded with salt and water, commonly consumed either baked or fried by the Venezuelan population. Their use in specialty restaurants and by Venezuelans living in other countries is on the increase. However, little is known about the nutritional quality of this product, particularly as affected by processing. Arepas are prepared by adding salt and water to corn flour, mixing until a consistent dough is f…
Legal dispossession and civil war in Colombia
How are institutions that regulate property rights related to the massive coercive dispossession of land that took place during the Colombian conflict? How did the workings of these institutions change during the conflict? We answer these questions through an analysis of a unique data set of rulings on land restitution issued between 2012 and 2015. The paper argues that the exclusionary nature of the institutions that regulate the access and assi…
Espacios Costeros Marinos para Pueblos Originarios
Los Espacios Costeros Marinos para Pueblos Originarios (ECMPOs) son áreas delimitadas de la zona marino-costera, cuyo objetivo es el resguardo de los usos consuetudinarios practicados por comunidades indígenas asentadas en la zona costera de Chile. Analizamos las implicancias analíticas y políticas del concepto de uso consuetudinario en el marco de los ECMPOs. Consideramos que el uso consuetudinario de un determinado espacio marino-costero se bas…
La vida después de la devastación
El deterioro de los procesos vitales del planeta producto de las constantes crisis y desastres ambientales nos obliga a repensar la tragedia de los comunes como ejercicios sociopolíticos de regeneración de la vida en territorios devastados. El artículo analiza cuatro casos asociados a la degradación y regeneración de los comunes en Chile y Brasil, revelando que los siniestros normativos anteceden a las catástrofes socioambientales; que el desplie…
Spatial Design and Placemaking
Spatial design and placemaking are fundamental to create a vibrant urban life, whereas video games are designed primarily for temporary amusement. However, they both share the same essence of creating large-scale artificial environments for human interaction as their fundamental value. Video game developers have been successfully using spatial design tools to create virtual environments to engage players and build narratives, understanding, and a…
Selected nutritional and biochemical changes during the production of baked and fried arepas
Arepa is an unleavened bread made of corn, kneaded with salt and water, commonly consumed either baked or fried by the Venezuelan population. Their use in specialty restaurants and by Venezuelans living in other countries is on the increase. However, little is known about the nutritional quality of this product, particularly as affected by processing. Arepas are prepared by adding salt and water to corn flour, mixing until a consistent dough is f…
Microbiological safety of baked and fried arepas
Arepas (the national bread of Venezuela) are prepared and consumed by a large proportion of the Venezuelan and Latin American population, and their popularity is increasing in numerous ethnic restaurants. Very little is known about the bacterial and fungal composition of baked and fried arepas or about the changes undergone by the microbial floia during their production. Arepas were prepared by adding salt and water to corn flour, mixing and shap…
Usos consuetudinarios, conflictos actuales y conservación en el borde costero de Chiloé insular
Se describe el modelo consuetudinario prevalente en la ocupación del borde costero de Chiloé insular a partir de información histórica y de observaciones y relatos testimoniales de residentes de comunidades costeras. Analizamos las formas de regulación tradicionales en el acceso a la naturaleza, las que se contrastan con las surgidas a raíz de la expansión de la industria pesquera. Se identifican los rasgos principales del modelo consuetudinario,…
Re-Imagining Streetlight Infrastructure as a Digital Urban Platform
Urban infrastructures have traditionally been mono-functional: water, sewage, and electricity are notable examples. Embedded with digital technologies, urban infrastructures have the potential to communicate with one another and become multi-functional platforms that integrate data gathering and actuation cycles. In this paper, we focus on public lighting infrastructures. Despite the technological development of lights, including LED technology, …
Spatial Design and Placemaking
Spatial design and placemaking are fundamental to create a vibrant urban life, whereas video games are designed primarily for temporary amusement. However, they both share the same essence of creating large-scale artificial environments for human interaction as their fundamental value. Video game developers have been successfully using spatial design tools to create virtual environments to engage players and build narratives, understanding, and a…
Legal dispossession and civil war in Colombia
How are institutions that regulate property rights related to the massive coercive dispossession of land that took place during the Colombian conflict? How did the workings of these institutions change during the conflict? We answer these questions through an analysis of a unique data set of rulings on land restitution issued between 2012 and 2015. The paper argues that the exclusionary nature of the institutions that regulate the access and assi…
La vida después de la devastación
El deterioro de los procesos vitales del planeta producto de las constantes crisis y desastres ambientales nos obliga a repensar la tragedia de los comunes como ejercicios sociopolíticos de regeneración de la vida en territorios devastados. El artículo analiza cuatro casos asociados a la degradación y regeneración de los comunes en Chile y Brasil, revelando que los siniestros normativos anteceden a las catástrofes socioambientales; que el desplie…
Rebounding From Extractivism
This study analyses the use of traditional fishing weirs in the Interior Sea of Chilo, in southern Chile. Although fishing weirs were in operation the time of the arrival of the first Europeans in the area in the mid-16th Century, when the indigenous Chono and Williche populations led distinctly aquapelagic lifestyles, we contend that they proliferated in subsequent centuries during the process of mestizaje (mixing) between indigenous populations…
Evaluating the Human Experience of Autonomous Boats with Immersive Virtual Reality
Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are an emergent technology. The very few studies focusing on how people perceive and react to autonomous vehicles are mainly based on online surveys. Although important, these studies measure people‘s opinions on AVs, but not their actual reaction when using them. In this paper, we assess users‘ perceptions of AVs using an immersive virtual reality experiment. We modeled autonomous boats that are intended to be deployed …
Espacios Costeros Marinos para Pueblos Originarios
Los Espacios Costeros Marinos para Pueblos Originarios (ECMPOs) son áreas delimitadas de la zona marino-costera, cuyo objetivo es el resguardo de los usos consuetudinarios practicados por comunidades indígenas asentadas en la zona costera de Chile. Analizamos las implicancias analíticas y políticas del concepto de uso consuetudinario en el marco de los ECMPOs. Consideramos que el uso consuetudinario de un determinado espacio marino-costero se bas…
Urban Play
Why technology is most transformative when it is playful, and innovative spatial design happens only when designers are both tinkerers and dreamers. In Urban Play, Fábio Duarte and Ricardo Álvarez argue that the merely functional aspects of technology may undermine its transformative power. Technology is powerful not when it becomes optimally functional, but while it is still playful and open to experimentation. It is through play—in the sense of…
De Chauracabí a Osorno
La arqueologa histrica de la
Sensing Lights
The technological transformation behind intelligent infrastructure systems requires institutional and stakeholder realignment in their development. In this article, we evaluate the challenges for the production of smart infrastructure through an in-depth analysis of the development of smart street lighting strategies. We conduct surveys and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders and industry leaders in public illumination, as well with …
Es sustentable la salmonicultura en Chile? Enmarcando narrativas en disputa sobre la actividad salmonera en la Patagonia
En la Patagonia Chilena se ha hecho cada vez más visible el conflicto entre diferentes actores respecto al acceso y uso del entorno marino-costero y sus recursos naturales. La industria del salmón ha sido la piedra angular del modelo de desarrollo impulsado por el Estado y los privados, organizando el territorio a su medida. A pesar de que sus impactos ambientales y sociales se han intensificado en los últimos años, la salmonicultura ha sabido co…
Otros-que-humanos
Se problematiza la enunciación 'otros-que-humanos' en torno a implementación de la ley Lafkenche (ley 20.249) y la producción de narrativas favorables y desfavorables a la implementación de Espacios Costeros Marinos de los Pueblos Originarios (Ecmpo). A partir de enfoques poshumanistas y del giro ontológico en la antropología, el presente artículo explora teóricamente las manifestaciones ontológicas de las relaciones entre seres humanos y 'otros-…
Youth Comparsas in Valparaíso (Chile)
Comparsas are known as group of people dressed in a similar way who participate in carnivals playing music, dancing and representing something. In Latin America the term was used for group of performers in urban carnivals in places such as Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay) in xix century, including Afro rhythms. These comparsas porteñas have been the main influence for youth comparsas formed in Valparaíso Region in Chile during th…
Artilugios de plástico y habitabilidad en las islas del mar interior de Chiloé
El ingenio es una habilidad de muy larga data en las islas del mar interior de Chiloé, en el sur de Chile. Es referido por sus propios habitantes como parte importante de su identidad, que los distingue de quienes se han ido a vivir a las ciudades donde “está todo hecho”. Hoy en día han activado nuevamente el ingenio para transformar grandes volúmenes de basura industrial, principalmente de origen acuícola, pero también pesquero artesanal, en art…
Spatial assessment of risks faced by marine protected areas in Chilean Patagonia
Spatial assessment of the risks faced by marine habitats provides essential information for adaptation to the impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors. Climate change is one of the main stressors affecting the persistence and resilience of healthy marine ecosystems. However, protection against other stressors such as marine habitat loss and direct exploitation of natural marine resources is needed to ensure that conservation efforts are not th…
From the Streets to the Stage
This article examines two professional brass bands from Central Chile, La Bandalismo from Valparaíso and Banda Conmoción from Santiago, which have built successful careers in the contemporary music scene by merging infectious dance rhythms and diverse musical styles with a strong commitment to activism. The study investigates how these bands’ artistic paths and public roles demonstrate a balance between entertaining audiences and engaging with so…
Human–nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity
In the context of climate change, biodiversity decline and social injustice, reciprocity emerges as a way of living and being in this world that holds transformative potential. Concepts of reciprocity vary and are enacted in specific cultural practices grounded in Indigenous and local knowledge systems. This editorial synthesises first‐hand evidence of how practising reciprocity can result in positive reciprocal contributions between people and n…
Reciprocal contributions
The recovery of marine ecosystems in areas heavily impacted by fishing and environmental exploitation depends, to some extent, on the sustainable management of resources and should be complemented by cultural traditions, practices and scientific knowledge. These knowledge systems may involve reciprocal actions and interactions between people and coastal environments, which, unfortunately, are often overlooked in government coastal management stra…
"Cosechar La Marea" Experiencias De Mujeres Recolectoras De Orilla en Islas Menores Del Sur-Austral De Chile
El siguiente trabajo presenta los resultados de una investigacin que describe y analiza los procesos de pesca artesanal, recoleccin de orilla, particularmente algas y mariscos, realizados por mujeres que habitan algunas de las islas menores del sur-austral de Chile.A travs de un diseo etnogrfico que combin entrevistas, tcnicas cartogrficas y observaciones mviles, se da cuenta de las prcticas relacionales involucradas en estos procesos, las cuales…
Aparejos para una teoría antropológica latinoamericana
Stripped of their historical context, concepts take on a life of their own and end up dictating the lives of others. The chronic dependence on North Atlantic theoretical perspectives has resulted in the reconfiguration of local thinking according to matrices that are foreign to it. In this article we intend to make a reverse journey through the concept of maritorio and its role in a conceptual organization consistent with regional research trajec…
The Intertidal Zone of the Chiloé Archipelago (Chile)
This study reviews the ontological and worldview dimensions of the island inhabitants of the Chiloé archipelago in southern Chile and their contribution to sustaining the ecosystem relationships that include them, with a special focus on the intertidal zone. These dimensions act by mediating people’s behaviour when implemented as long-standing traditional customs in a practical way (e.g., gathering or fishing), mitigating potential negative impac…
Geography (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Humanities (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America (3 works)