Nathalia Hernández Vidal
Biographic Data
| ID | 96519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathalia Hernández Vidal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathalia Hernández |
| FAMILY NAME | Vidal |
| SIGNATURE | VIDAL N H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5529-4083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Strategic dissonance: Redd+ implementation narratives and practices in Colombia
This article examines the narrative tensions between public and private REDD+ implementers in Colombia, in light of recent scandals impacting carbon markets. • It shows an interplay of narrative competition and practical collaboration between REDD+ jurisdictional programs and voluntary projects. • The article links these different positions to the strategic mobilization of environmental governance discourses and to two coexisting political agenda…
Making Indigeneity without Indigenous Peoples through Redd+ initiatives
REDD+ projects aim to 'reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries' by providing 'additional forest-related activities that protect the climate, namely sustainable management of forests and the conservation and enhancement of forest carbon stocks' (UNFCCC 2024). While some actors underscore the benefits of REDD+, some critical scholars have emphasized how this type of initiative reproduces the capitalist log…
From house of spirits to carbon sink: Ontological conflicts around Redd+ in the Colombian Amazon
Based on an ethnographic approach, this article analyzes the ontological conflicts of projects that aim at the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) in indigenous territories in the Amazon. The analysis is based on a case study in the Selva de Matavén Indigenous reserve in the Colombian Amazon, with a particular focus on the Piaroa people, one of the six groups with ancestral rights to the area. We argue that so…
Unraveling the colonialities of climate change and action
In this introduction to the special section on the Colonialities of climate change and action we provide a conceptual mapping that can help us engage critically with existing approaches to thinking and acting in the context of climate change. We carry out this exercise inspired by Latin American decolonial and political ecology scholarship, as well as by Farhana Sultana's notion of climate coloniality. In an effort to pluralize our understanding …
Defending the Commons: New Frontiers in Latin American Perspectives on Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice scholarship and action have different histories and genealogies. In this article, we combine our interdisciplinary formations in philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and feminist political ecology to examine three case studies that show how place-based communities understand, enact, and embody their struggle for environmental justice. We draw from Latin American and Caribbean scholarship on these issues and our experience in…
Seed Schools in Colombia and the Generative Character of Sociotechnical Dissent
In STS, dissent has typically been understood as resistance, a way of saying “no” that is intended to generate change in discourses, material systems, and forms of law and rule that would then govern those who are aggrieved. Using the case of La Red de Semillas Libres de Colombia (RSL) [Network of Free Seeds of Colombia], this paper builds on another approach most visible in feminist, decolonial, and indigenous STS that examines rebuilding rather…
The dialectics of hope and critique: Reflections on Colombia's new government
A year ago, many would have considered the idea of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez becoming the President and the Vice President of Colombia a delirium in a country with 200 years of right-wing political domination. In this contention piece, we reflect on critical points of their government's agenda, some of its challenges, and their strategies to face them. To do that, we draw from the election's extensive press coverage and our own experience…
Pedagogies for seed sovereignty in Colombia: Epistemic, territorial, and gendered dimensions
The Formation of Territories Free of Transgenics: Race, Space, and Mobilisation in Colombia
The transgenic expansion has situated land and territorial disputes at the centre of the transformations of the global agrifood system. Feminist critical scholarship has examined how states and multilateral organisations exercise top‐down power to promote extractivist agrarian models of development, showing how they have accelerated and intensified material and immaterial dispossession for already poor farmers across the world. In this article, I…
Knowledge and Justice: A Comment
Epistemic justice projects are now one of the most important sites of science studies scholarship and engagement. The papers in this collection make clear that we divorce science and technology from questions of power at our peril, if we are to understand what generates and remediates the inequalities that past and extant knowledge creation and distribution systems have wrought. Expertise and experts are the conceptual anchors for these articles,…
Resistencias epistémico-políticas frente a la privatización de las semillas y los saberes colectivos
En un contexto de libre comercio y privatización de los bienes comunes, el artículo analiza la producción de conocimiento sobre semillas nativas y criollas en la Red de Semillas Libres de Colombia, en dos dimensiones: 1) otras formas de saber y relacionarse con las semillas; 2) los mecanismos por los cuales estas formas de saber han sido o no incluidas en la política pública. Partiendo de estudios críticos sobre ciencia y tecnología y decoloniali…
Territorializando STS: An analysis of current discussions about agro-biotechnology governance in Latin America, Europe, and the USA
In this article I examine current discussions about the governance of agro-biotechnology in Latin America, Europe, and the USA, based on a comparative reading of critical scholarship about the topic (Bravo, Toro, and Vélez 2014; Parthasarathy 2017; Oliveira and Hecht 2018). In the first section I explain how agro-biotechnology has become a salient issue for international agencies, nation-states, corporations, and communities. I then show that, fo…
Resistencias epistémico-políticas frente a la privatización de las semillas y los saberes colectivos
En un contexto de libre comercio y privatización de los bienes comunes, el artículo analiza la producción de conocimiento sobre semillas nativas y criollas en la Red de Semillas Libres de Colombia, en dos dimensiones: 1) otras formas de saber y relacionarse con las semillas; 2) los mecanismos por los cuales estas formas de saber han sido o no incluidas en la política pública. Partiendo de estudios críticos sobre ciencia y tecnología y decoloniali…
Defending the Commons: New Frontiers in Latin American Perspectives on Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice scholarship and action have different histories and genealogies. In this article, we combine our interdisciplinary formations in philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and feminist political ecology to examine three case studies that show how place-based communities understand, enact, and embody their struggle for environmental justice. We draw from Latin American and Caribbean scholarship on these issues and our experience in…
Pedagogies for seed sovereignty in Colombia: Epistemic, territorial, and gendered dimensions
From house of spirits to carbon sink: Ontological conflicts around Redd+ in the Colombian Amazon
Based on an ethnographic approach, this article analyzes the ontological conflicts of projects that aim at the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) in indigenous territories in the Amazon. The analysis is based on a case study in the Selva de Matavén Indigenous reserve in the Colombian Amazon, with a particular focus on the Piaroa people, one of the six groups with ancestral rights to the area. We argue that so…
Unraveling the colonialities of climate change and action
In this introduction to the special section on the Colonialities of climate change and action we provide a conceptual mapping that can help us engage critically with existing approaches to thinking and acting in the context of climate change. We carry out this exercise inspired by Latin American decolonial and political ecology scholarship, as well as by Farhana Sultana's notion of climate coloniality. In an effort to pluralize our understanding …
The dialectics of hope and critique: Reflections on Colombia's new government
A year ago, many would have considered the idea of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez becoming the President and the Vice President of Colombia a delirium in a country with 200 years of right-wing political domination. In this contention piece, we reflect on critical points of their government's agenda, some of its challenges, and their strategies to face them. To do that, we draw from the election's extensive press coverage and our own experience…
The Formation of Territories Free of Transgenics: Race, Space, and Mobilisation in Colombia
The transgenic expansion has situated land and territorial disputes at the centre of the transformations of the global agrifood system. Feminist critical scholarship has examined how states and multilateral organisations exercise top‐down power to promote extractivist agrarian models of development, showing how they have accelerated and intensified material and immaterial dispossession for already poor farmers across the world. In this article, I…
Territorializando STS: An analysis of current discussions about agro-biotechnology governance in Latin America, Europe, and the USA
In this article I examine current discussions about the governance of agro-biotechnology in Latin America, Europe, and the USA, based on a comparative reading of critical scholarship about the topic (Bravo, Toro, and Vélez 2014; Parthasarathy 2017; Oliveira and Hecht 2018). In the first section I explain how agro-biotechnology has become a salient issue for international agencies, nation-states, corporations, and communities. I then show that, fo…
Knowledge and Justice: A Comment
Epistemic justice projects are now one of the most important sites of science studies scholarship and engagement. The papers in this collection make clear that we divorce science and technology from questions of power at our peril, if we are to understand what generates and remediates the inequalities that past and extant knowledge creation and distribution systems have wrought. Expertise and experts are the conceptual anchors for these articles,…
Resistencias epistémico-políticas frente a la privatización de las semillas y los saberes colectivos
En un contexto de libre comercio y privatización de los bienes comunes, el artículo analiza la producción de conocimiento sobre semillas nativas y criollas en la Red de Semillas Libres de Colombia, en dos dimensiones: 1) otras formas de saber y relacionarse con las semillas; 2) los mecanismos por los cuales estas formas de saber han sido o no incluidas en la política pública. Partiendo de estudios críticos sobre ciencia y tecnología y decoloniali…
Seed Schools in Colombia and the Generative Character of Sociotechnical Dissent
In STS, dissent has typically been understood as resistance, a way of saying “no” that is intended to generate change in discourses, material systems, and forms of law and rule that would then govern those who are aggrieved. Using the case of La Red de Semillas Libres de Colombia (RSL) [Network of Free Seeds of Colombia], this paper builds on another approach most visible in feminist, decolonial, and indigenous STS that examines rebuilding rather…
The dialectics of hope and critique: Reflections on Colombia's new government
A year ago, many would have considered the idea of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez becoming the President and the Vice President of Colombia a delirium in a country with 200 years of right-wing political domination. In this contention piece, we reflect on critical points of their government's agenda, some of its challenges, and their strategies to face them. To do that, we draw from the election's extensive press coverage and our own experience…
Pedagogies for seed sovereignty in Colombia: Epistemic, territorial, and gendered dimensions
The Formation of Territories Free of Transgenics: Race, Space, and Mobilisation in Colombia
The transgenic expansion has situated land and territorial disputes at the centre of the transformations of the global agrifood system. Feminist critical scholarship has examined how states and multilateral organisations exercise top‐down power to promote extractivist agrarian models of development, showing how they have accelerated and intensified material and immaterial dispossession for already poor farmers across the world. In this article, I…
Defending the Commons: New Frontiers in Latin American Perspectives on Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice scholarship and action have different histories and genealogies. In this article, we combine our interdisciplinary formations in philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and feminist political ecology to examine three case studies that show how place-based communities understand, enact, and embody their struggle for environmental justice. We draw from Latin American and Caribbean scholarship on these issues and our experience in…
Unraveling the colonialities of climate change and action
In this introduction to the special section on the Colonialities of climate change and action we provide a conceptual mapping that can help us engage critically with existing approaches to thinking and acting in the context of climate change. We carry out this exercise inspired by Latin American decolonial and political ecology scholarship, as well as by Farhana Sultana's notion of climate coloniality. In an effort to pluralize our understanding …
Making Indigeneity without Indigenous Peoples through Redd+ initiatives
REDD+ projects aim to 'reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries' by providing 'additional forest-related activities that protect the climate, namely sustainable management of forests and the conservation and enhancement of forest carbon stocks' (UNFCCC 2024). While some actors underscore the benefits of REDD+, some critical scholars have emphasized how this type of initiative reproduces the capitalist log…
From house of spirits to carbon sink: Ontological conflicts around Redd+ in the Colombian Amazon
Based on an ethnographic approach, this article analyzes the ontological conflicts of projects that aim at the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) in indigenous territories in the Amazon. The analysis is based on a case study in the Selva de Matavén Indigenous reserve in the Colombian Amazon, with a particular focus on the Piaroa people, one of the six groups with ancestral rights to the area. We argue that so…
Strategic dissonance: Redd+ implementation narratives and practices in Colombia
This article examines the narrative tensions between public and private REDD+ implementers in Colombia, in light of recent scandals impacting carbon markets. • It shows an interplay of narrative competition and practical collaboration between REDD+ jurisdictional programs and voluntary projects. • The article links these different positions to the strategic mobilization of environmental governance discourses and to two coexisting political agenda…
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