D P Pedraza
Biographic Data
| ID | 66268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D P Pedraza |
| GIVEN NAMES | D P |
| FAMILY NAME | Pedraza |
| SIGNATURE | PEDRAZA D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5157-5646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Grounding specifics: Rats and dogs in landmine detection
In the past decade, anthropologists have been seduced by methods that explore human and more-than-human relationships. This trend echoes an early pattern of cultural relativism in the discipline, with ‘culture’ replaced by ‘species’ as primary seduction. Yet species is a capacious term, and species themselves are complexly multiple, so multispecies ethnography risks blurring important distinctions. Attending to animals’ interactions requires appr…
Time and the remains of war: Retazos of morgues and minefields in Colombia
Recently, the Army and FARC-EP guerrillas widely deployed aerial bombardment and improvised landmines in Colombia as warfare technologies to control territories and contain adversaries. These devices kill and mutilate bodies, and penetrate and scar landscapes. What can explosive military technologies and their aftermath tell us about how morgue doctors, demining surveyors, and campesinos sense and temporalize the materiality of war? This paper is…
Ordinary Warfare and Militarized Landscapes: A Syllabus
Introduction: Domestication of War
This Special Section broadens and qualifies the terms through which the relationship between home and militarization has been understood. We do this by joining a vibrant and growing field of transdisciplinary scholars who address the militarization of everyday life by attending to domesticity and practices of domestication. We grapple with how the home naturalizes and becomes a catalyst for militarism: How do ordinary and domestic objects, techno…
Response to commentaries to explosiveness: Territories of war and technoscientific practice in Colombia
Ethnographic concepts are lively. This is true for explosiveness. Deeply situated and contextual, its reverberations may take multiple paths and nuances across space, time, and even disciplinary concerns. In this response to the commentators’ engagements with our article, we are particularly interested in how they signal some initial intriguing pathways for the conceptual echoes of explosiveness. Prompted by their responses, we return to several …
Sensory Co-laboring
Demining has not been an exclusively human affair. Mine detection dogs have been indispensable in the work of detection and in the slow but essential effort to regain trust in mine-suspected landscapes. Famously renowned for their extraordinary sensory perception, physical strength, and mental traits, they are part of human-nonhuman units training and working together to perceive explosives' odors. This article considers the role of these units, …
Explosiveness: Territories of war and technoscientific practices in Colombia
La Serranía de la Macarena has been a crucial scenario in the Colombian war. In this region, the army and FARC-EP guerrillas widely deployed aerial bombardment and improvised landmines to control the territory and contain their adversaries. This article is a collaborative ethnographic exploration of retazos-snippets of material-discursive practices we collected in our fieldworks: a demining project and a state morgue. What can explosive military …
Ethical disconcertment and the politics of troublemaking: Land mines, humanitarian demining, and ecologies of trouble in rural Colombia
In Colombia, I once heard a farmer reject a humanitarian demining project operating in her community. "Land mines are our smallest problem," she said. Creating a moment of ethical disconcertment, she sought to slow down humanitarian imperatives. I place her in conversation with local pleas for "demining with development," illustrating how they challenge the logic and temporality of humanitarian mine action, drawing attention to the complexity of …
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life
Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin by Kimberly Theidon
Reviewed by: Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin by Kimberly Theidon Diana Pardo Pedraza Theidon, Kimberly. Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022. 114 pp. On February 21, 2022, the Colombian Constitutional Court decriminalized abortion within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. This ruling is part of a vital wave of activism for greater reproductive rights in Latin America. The Colombian cas…
Artefacto Explosivo Improvisado: Landmines and rebel expertise in Colombian warfare
In Colombia, almost all antipersonnel mines are improvised. Crafted with ordinary materials, improvised mines are inexpensive and cannot be easily sensed by metal detectors. Their Spanish technical name is Artefacto Explosivo Improvisado. In this article, I purposefully maintain the name to emphasize the material, technical, and political nuances I observed during my eighteen-months of fieldwork with landmine survivors, demining experts, and guer…
Artefacto Explosivo Improvisado: Landmines and rebel expertise in Colombian warfare
In Colombia, almost all antipersonnel mines are improvised. Crafted with ordinary materials, improvised mines are inexpensive and cannot be easily sensed by metal detectors. Their Spanish technical name is Artefacto Explosivo Improvisado. In this article, I purposefully maintain the name to emphasize the material, technical, and political nuances I observed during my eighteen-months of fieldwork with landmine survivors, demining experts, and guer…
Ethical disconcertment and the politics of troublemaking: Land mines, humanitarian demining, and ecologies of trouble in rural Colombia
In Colombia, I once heard a farmer reject a humanitarian demining project operating in her community. "Land mines are our smallest problem," she said. Creating a moment of ethical disconcertment, she sought to slow down humanitarian imperatives. I place her in conversation with local pleas for "demining with development," illustrating how they challenge the logic and temporality of humanitarian mine action, drawing attention to the complexity of …
Sensory Co-laboring
Demining has not been an exclusively human affair. Mine detection dogs have been indispensable in the work of detection and in the slow but essential effort to regain trust in mine-suspected landscapes. Famously renowned for their extraordinary sensory perception, physical strength, and mental traits, they are part of human-nonhuman units training and working together to perceive explosives' odors. This article considers the role of these units, …
Artefacto Explosivo Improvisado: Landmines and rebel expertise in Colombian warfare
In Colombia, almost all antipersonnel mines are improvised. Crafted with ordinary materials, improvised mines are inexpensive and cannot be easily sensed by metal detectors. Their Spanish technical name is Artefacto Explosivo Improvisado. In this article, I purposefully maintain the name to emphasize the material, technical, and political nuances I observed during my eighteen-months of fieldwork with landmine survivors, demining experts, and guer…
Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin by Kimberly Theidon
Reviewed by: Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin by Kimberly Theidon Diana Pardo Pedraza Theidon, Kimberly. Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022. 114 pp. On February 21, 2022, the Colombian Constitutional Court decriminalized abortion within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. This ruling is part of a vital wave of activism for greater reproductive rights in Latin America. The Colombian cas…
Introduction: Domestication of War
This Special Section broadens and qualifies the terms through which the relationship between home and militarization has been understood. We do this by joining a vibrant and growing field of transdisciplinary scholars who address the militarization of everyday life by attending to domesticity and practices of domestication. We grapple with how the home naturalizes and becomes a catalyst for militarism: How do ordinary and domestic objects, techno…
Response to commentaries to explosiveness: Territories of war and technoscientific practice in Colombia
Ethnographic concepts are lively. This is true for explosiveness. Deeply situated and contextual, its reverberations may take multiple paths and nuances across space, time, and even disciplinary concerns. In this response to the commentators’ engagements with our article, we are particularly interested in how they signal some initial intriguing pathways for the conceptual echoes of explosiveness. Prompted by their responses, we return to several …
Sensory Co-laboring
Demining has not been an exclusively human affair. Mine detection dogs have been indispensable in the work of detection and in the slow but essential effort to regain trust in mine-suspected landscapes. Famously renowned for their extraordinary sensory perception, physical strength, and mental traits, they are part of human-nonhuman units training and working together to perceive explosives' odors. This article considers the role of these units, …
Explosiveness: Territories of war and technoscientific practices in Colombia
La Serranía de la Macarena has been a crucial scenario in the Colombian war. In this region, the army and FARC-EP guerrillas widely deployed aerial bombardment and improvised landmines to control the territory and contain their adversaries. This article is a collaborative ethnographic exploration of retazos-snippets of material-discursive practices we collected in our fieldworks: a demining project and a state morgue. What can explosive military …
Ethical disconcertment and the politics of troublemaking: Land mines, humanitarian demining, and ecologies of trouble in rural Colombia
In Colombia, I once heard a farmer reject a humanitarian demining project operating in her community. "Land mines are our smallest problem," she said. Creating a moment of ethical disconcertment, she sought to slow down humanitarian imperatives. I place her in conversation with local pleas for "demining with development," illustrating how they challenge the logic and temporality of humanitarian mine action, drawing attention to the complexity of …
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life
Ordinary Warfare and Militarized Landscapes: A Syllabus
Time and the remains of war: Retazos of morgues and minefields in Colombia
Recently, the Army and FARC-EP guerrillas widely deployed aerial bombardment and improvised landmines in Colombia as warfare technologies to control territories and contain adversaries. These devices kill and mutilate bodies, and penetrate and scar landscapes. What can explosive military technologies and their aftermath tell us about how morgue doctors, demining surveyors, and campesinos sense and temporalize the materiality of war? This paper is…
Grounding specifics: Rats and dogs in landmine detection
In the past decade, anthropologists have been seduced by methods that explore human and more-than-human relationships. This trend echoes an early pattern of cultural relativism in the discipline, with ‘culture’ replaced by ‘species’ as primary seduction. Yet species is a capacious term, and species themselves are complexly multiple, so multispecies ethnography risks blurring important distinctions. Attending to animals’ interactions requires appr…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)