María Alejandra Pérez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3730729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Alejandra Pérez |
| GIVEN NAMES | María Alejandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Pérez |
| SIGNATURE | PÉREZ M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2217-9617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Organizaciones supracomunitarias indígenas y prácticas de resistencia del pueblo mapuche en tiempos de dictadura cívico-militar
The issue of indigenous peoples in the last civil-military dictatorship and in times of state terrorism (such as the previous years) is highly relevant yet it has been largely overlooked. It is practically a “taboo” about which little information is available. It is only in recent years that different situations have been taken up again and victims belonging to these peoples have begun to be remembered. This article aims to examine the different …
Spacetimes catalyzing Puerto Rican Karst education, science, and conservation: Microanalyses in a building in transformation
In historic downtown Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a closed and abandoned building which used to be a school is undergoing a remarkable transformation. Since 2016, the structure is property of Citizens of Karst, a local non-profit organization leading the creation at the site of the Karst Institute of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. By the end of its transformation, it will house a natural history museum, cave and karst exhibits, spaces for research and a…
Volumes, caves, bodies, relatedness: The case of Cuban speleology and national defense
Underground exploration beyond state reach: Alternative volumetric territorial projects in Venezuela, Cuba, and Mexico
Value/S Underground, Collective Ethos, and the Classificatory Logic of Venezuela's Cave Survey
Building on reinvigorated scholarly debates on the concept of value, this paper examines forms of valuation that coexist with and challenge those typically associated with capitalist natures. Based on archival, ethnographic, and interview data, we analyze a historical case of the Venezuelan Society of Speleology (SVE) that since 1967 has been exploring and mapping the country's caves. Its results are published in a national cave survey that the g…
When Participants Do Not Agree: Member Checking and Challenges to Epistemic Authority in Participatory Research
Transactional validity, a common approach in participatory research, is attained when preliminary analyses of research results are discussed with research participants and their feedback is incorporated in the analysis. Member checking is one way of achieving transactional validity, which has been heralded as a stronger version of validity reached through triangulation. Through member checking, we engaged with participants to ensure mutual agreem…
Conferencing Cuba's Geographies of Speleology: The Politics of Inclusion and Hospitality among Cave Explorers and Scientists
From the 13 th to the 17 th of April of 2015, Cuban cave explorers and scientists, or speleologists, gathered to celebrate the 75 th anniversary of the Sociedad Espeleológica de Cuba (SEC) in the city of Camaguëy. This organization, dedicated to the exploration, study, and conservation of the country's many caves, was founded in 1940, and was the first of its kind in the Americas. While scholars have examined the achievements of Cuba's biotechnol…
Yearnings for Guácharo Cave: Affect, absence, and science in Venezuelan speleology
As a member of Venezuela's first national society of cave exploration and science (speleology), Ramón Alberto Hernández (1926-2009) participated in the exploration and survey of Venezuela's famous Guácharo Cave in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Despite his key contributions to the knowledge of this cave and many others in the country, his contributions have received little attention. With an ethnographic account of his last visit to Guácharo Cav…
Exploring the vertical: Science and sociality in the field among cavers in Venezuela
Recent scholarship on vertical geographies has lead to a critical reexamination of the relationship between space and power. In this paper, I develop a vertical geographies approach in an unexplored context and with a less tested method: that of cave explorers and scientists in the field in Venezuela, from an ethnographic perspective. Ethnographic analysis of exploration in practice, viewed in relation to a multi-dimensional environment and the s…
Lines Underground: Exploring and Mapping Venezuela's Cave Environment
How do the lines on a map come into being? What stories do they tell? These questions are examined in the context of cave exploration and mapping in Venezuela. Ethnographic analysis focuses on mapping in the field, the translation of notes into final maps, and discourses surrounding these practices. The lines that cave surveyors sketch in field books while traversing underground passages reveal a dialectic between cartographic and exploratory pra…
Exploring the vertical: Science and sociality in the field among cavers in Venezuela
Recent scholarship on vertical geographies has lead to a critical reexamination of the relationship between space and power. In this paper, I develop a vertical geographies approach in an unexplored context and with a less tested method: that of cave explorers and scientists in the field in Venezuela, from an ethnographic perspective. Ethnographic analysis of exploration in practice, viewed in relation to a multi-dimensional environment and the s…
Underground exploration beyond state reach: Alternative volumetric territorial projects in Venezuela, Cuba, and Mexico
Volumes, caves, bodies, relatedness: The case of Cuban speleology and national defense
Yearnings for Guácharo Cave: Affect, absence, and science in Venezuelan speleology
As a member of Venezuela's first national society of cave exploration and science (speleology), Ramón Alberto Hernández (1926-2009) participated in the exploration and survey of Venezuela's famous Guácharo Cave in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Despite his key contributions to the knowledge of this cave and many others in the country, his contributions have received little attention. With an ethnographic account of his last visit to Guácharo Cav…
When Participants Do Not Agree: Member Checking and Challenges to Epistemic Authority in Participatory Research
Transactional validity, a common approach in participatory research, is attained when preliminary analyses of research results are discussed with research participants and their feedback is incorporated in the analysis. Member checking is one way of achieving transactional validity, which has been heralded as a stronger version of validity reached through triangulation. Through member checking, we engaged with participants to ensure mutual agreem…
Value/S Underground, Collective Ethos, and the Classificatory Logic of Venezuela's Cave Survey
Building on reinvigorated scholarly debates on the concept of value, this paper examines forms of valuation that coexist with and challenge those typically associated with capitalist natures. Based on archival, ethnographic, and interview data, we analyze a historical case of the Venezuelan Society of Speleology (SVE) that since 1967 has been exploring and mapping the country's caves. Its results are published in a national cave survey that the g…
Conferencing Cuba's Geographies of Speleology: The Politics of Inclusion and Hospitality among Cave Explorers and Scientists
From the 13 th to the 17 th of April of 2015, Cuban cave explorers and scientists, or speleologists, gathered to celebrate the 75 th anniversary of the Sociedad Espeleológica de Cuba (SEC) in the city of Camaguëy. This organization, dedicated to the exploration, study, and conservation of the country's many caves, was founded in 1940, and was the first of its kind in the Americas. While scholars have examined the achievements of Cuba's biotechnol…
Lines Underground: Exploring and Mapping Venezuela's Cave Environment
How do the lines on a map come into being? What stories do they tell? These questions are examined in the context of cave exploration and mapping in Venezuela. Ethnographic analysis focuses on mapping in the field, the translation of notes into final maps, and discourses surrounding these practices. The lines that cave surveyors sketch in field books while traversing underground passages reveal a dialectic between cartographic and exploratory pra…
Exploring the vertical: Science and sociality in the field among cavers in Venezuela
Recent scholarship on vertical geographies has lead to a critical reexamination of the relationship between space and power. In this paper, I develop a vertical geographies approach in an unexplored context and with a less tested method: that of cave explorers and scientists in the field in Venezuela, from an ethnographic perspective. Ethnographic analysis of exploration in practice, viewed in relation to a multi-dimensional environment and the s…
Yearnings for Guácharo Cave: Affect, absence, and science in Venezuelan speleology
As a member of Venezuela's first national society of cave exploration and science (speleology), Ramón Alberto Hernández (1926-2009) participated in the exploration and survey of Venezuela's famous Guácharo Cave in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Despite his key contributions to the knowledge of this cave and many others in the country, his contributions have received little attention. With an ethnographic account of his last visit to Guácharo Cav…
Conferencing Cuba's Geographies of Speleology: The Politics of Inclusion and Hospitality among Cave Explorers and Scientists
From the 13 th to the 17 th of April of 2015, Cuban cave explorers and scientists, or speleologists, gathered to celebrate the 75 th anniversary of the Sociedad Espeleológica de Cuba (SEC) in the city of Camaguëy. This organization, dedicated to the exploration, study, and conservation of the country's many caves, was founded in 1940, and was the first of its kind in the Americas. While scholars have examined the achievements of Cuba's biotechnol…
When Participants Do Not Agree: Member Checking and Challenges to Epistemic Authority in Participatory Research
Transactional validity, a common approach in participatory research, is attained when preliminary analyses of research results are discussed with research participants and their feedback is incorporated in the analysis. Member checking is one way of achieving transactional validity, which has been heralded as a stronger version of validity reached through triangulation. Through member checking, we engaged with participants to ensure mutual agreem…
Volumes, caves, bodies, relatedness: The case of Cuban speleology and national defense
Underground exploration beyond state reach: Alternative volumetric territorial projects in Venezuela, Cuba, and Mexico
Value/S Underground, Collective Ethos, and the Classificatory Logic of Venezuela's Cave Survey
Building on reinvigorated scholarly debates on the concept of value, this paper examines forms of valuation that coexist with and challenge those typically associated with capitalist natures. Based on archival, ethnographic, and interview data, we analyze a historical case of the Venezuelan Society of Speleology (SVE) that since 1967 has been exploring and mapping the country's caves. Its results are published in a national cave survey that the g…
Spacetimes catalyzing Puerto Rican Karst education, science, and conservation: Microanalyses in a building in transformation
In historic downtown Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a closed and abandoned building which used to be a school is undergoing a remarkable transformation. Since 2016, the structure is property of Citizens of Karst, a local non-profit organization leading the creation at the site of the Karst Institute of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. By the end of its transformation, it will house a natural history museum, cave and karst exhibits, spaces for research and a…
Organizaciones supracomunitarias indígenas y prácticas de resistencia del pueblo mapuche en tiempos de dictadura cívico-militar
The issue of indigenous peoples in the last civil-military dictatorship and in times of state terrorism (such as the previous years) is highly relevant yet it has been largely overlooked. It is practically a “taboo” about which little information is available. It is only in recent years that different situations have been taken up again and victims belonging to these peoples have begun to be remembered. This article aims to examine the different …
Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Cave (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)