Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 164144 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gabriela Soto Laveaga |
| PRENOMES | Gabriela Soto |
| SOBRENOME | Laveaga |
| ASSINATURA | LAVEAGA G S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Seed Stories, film. Written and directed by Chitrangada Choudhury, 2024/India/colour/42min/Odiya, Kui, English (with English subtitles)
In this arresting short documentary (42 min) we are confronted with co-existing, alternate realities. In one, we are in Odisha, India with ecologist Dr. Debal Deb and his team as they struggle to p
Histories of Science, Magical Realism, and the Politics of Development Aid in Mexico
Introduction
For more than three decades, historians have been attentive to the field's Eurocentrism and to its tendency to marginalize histories from colonized, formerly colonized, or Global South regions. From Nancy Leys Stepan, Marcos Cueto, and Warwick Anderson in the 1990s to a rich roster of scholars today, historians of Latin American science have challenged longstanding assumptions in a range of themes, including core and periphery, the transfer of kn…
Reshaping the field
Today the Yaqui Valley, a renowned farming region in northern Mexico, is a top emitter of greenhouse gas. Made famous as the birthplace of the Green Revolution, the high-yielding seeds that transformed the world’s farming were engineered in the research station located in the valley. Research led by agronomist Norman Borlaug not only transformed seeds but significantly altered the contemporary understanding of fertilizer use. Five times as much f…
Of Canals, Rivers and the Right to Exist
What can a dying river teach us about post/de-colonial science and technology? In a post-COVID world, absence and loss will be a constant presence in the lives of most. While thinking with erasures and absence in science and technology studies is not new, our current moment pushes us to burrow deeper into the histories of technologies that produce manufactured empty space, examine histories that pushed groups to the fringes of documented memory a…
Worker Once Known
How do we reevaluate the role of individuals whose contributions have not been erased—they are still visible—but whose labor has been demoted in the historical narrative because of their gender, class, or ethnicity? This brief essay is about more than simply bringing in overlooked actors; instead, it ponders why the act of mislabeling a person's labor merits further deliberation. Mislabeled archival evidence, such as the erroneous description acc…
Institutional Reckonings in the History of Medicine
Institutional Reckonings in the History of Medicine Jeremy Greene, Alisha Rankin, and Gabriela Soto Laveaga This issue of the Bulletin includes three independently proposed articles that converge on the topic of institutional racism—and student activism against it—in the context of academic medicine in the United States. Two of the essays focus on the recent role of student activists in decrying the racist and eugenicist ideologies of vaunted phy…
Race science in the Latin world
Rogue Seeds in Disturbed Fields
Narratives of improved seed varieties often focus on scientists, controlled experimental fields, or laboratories. Seldom are farmers the protagonists of seed experimentation histories. Yet what happens when not-yet-released seeds appear in a farmer’s field and the blame is placed on the farmer—and not the lab from which the seeds “escaped”? How do we tell that story? More important, how has focusing on seeds—the objects themselves—taken our atten…
Poverty Alleviation from the Margins
A 1970s and 1980s poverty alleviation program, IMSS-COPLAMAR, challenged universal definitions of poverty as well as health models for rural areas while proffering a distinctly Mexican alternative. Yet this solution, broadly painting rural dwellers as marginados (marginalized), focused on need-based definitions of social exclusion and thus incongruously erased ethnic diversity while celebrating Indigenous forms of healing. Indeed, linking notions…
The socialist origins of the Green Revolution
Origin narratives of the Green Revolution have been periodized to influence who is seen as an expert and memorialized as such. This article pushes us to reframe technical assistance to include in country agricultural aid activities needed for many foreign assistance initiatives to succeed. Many agricultural-based technical assistance projects of the twentieth century trace their origins to the emergence of a Rockefeller Foundation-led Green Revol…
Moving From, and Beyond, Invented Categories
The decentering of narratives is no longer sufficient for bringing the past into sharper focus. As a discipline, we must contend with the continued power imbalance in the production and circulation of histories. It is necessary to give equal valence to histories produced by embracing a range of historical methods, many of which the essays in this forum explore. Doing so expands understandings of what counts as theory in our histories and their ob…
Race and the Epigenetics of Memory
In my brief response to Terence Keel’s essay “Race on Both Sides of the Razor,” I focus on something as pertinent as alleles and social construction: how we write history and how we memorialize the past. Current DNA analysis promises to remap our past and interrogate certainties that we have taken for granted. For the purposes of this commentary I call this displacing of known histories the epigenetics of memory. Just as environmental stimuli rou…
Largo dislocare
This brief essay uses Pandurang Khankhoje, an Indian scientist and political refugee in Mexico, as an example of the value of using a largo dislocare approach to write histories of science. Largo dislocare is an invitation to dislocate known histories not just geographically but also chronologically to better understand the motion of people, ideas and objects. By examining the largo (long) trajectory of science in spaces that do not conform to tr…
Roundtable
Prakash Kumar, Timothy Lorek, Tore C. Olsson, Nicole Sackley, Sigrid Schmalzer, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution, Agricultural History, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Summer 2017), pp. 397-422
Una Enfermedad Monstruo
In 2007, several Warao children in the Venezuelan jungle unexpectedly died in a terrifying fashion. Those who fell ill appeared to be healthy, but hours before dying they became listless, burned with fever, and started convulsing; some of the conscious or semiconscious screamed that monsters were taking them away. Ultimately they all died. Soon adults started to die as well. This book is part medical mystery (what was causing these horrible death…
Building the nation of the future, one waiting room at a time
Mid-twentieth century Mexican hospitals – the buildings themselves and their interior and exterior walls – became stages that depicted national hopes and aspirations. Hospitals and clinics became ideal spaces that married science and medicine with the state’s version of a triumphant social revolution. Visitors and patients to hospital waiting rooms, lobbies and auditoriums would see, indeed be surrounded by, depictions of the complicated hopes pl…
Bringing the Revolution to Medical Schools
This article explores the establishment of the 1936 Social Service requirement for medical students and the creation of a major in Rural Health at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico City to explain how health and physicians became an extension of the aims of the Mexican Revolution. The author argues that the 1930s attempt to bring doctors to rural areas had a two-fold intent that went beyond health and a geographic distribution of docto…
Shadowing the Professional Class
This article focuses on the shadowing of Mexican physicians during the 10-month long medical movement of 1964–65. The author highlights how hospital spaces, doctors' routines, medical hierarchies, and the nature of physicians' labour posed particular difficulties for secret service agents. By examining a report from May 1965, mid-way through the movement, it becomes clear how agents sought to better understand a group with little history of state…
Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968-2000
In Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968 – 2000, Dolores Trevizo focuses on a paradox in late twentieth- century Mexico: while peasant groups constituted the base of electoral support for the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), their uprisings in the 1970s and 1980s were pivotal to the demise of the regime. The author posits that by focusing on understudied nonrevolutionary social movements we can better understand how…
Médicos, hospitales y servicios de inteligencia
In the autumn of 1964, residents and interns of Mexico's hospitals began a strike to demand salary increases, better working conditions, and more educational opportunities. As time passed, however, these workplace demands shifted to encompass more global issues of social justice, the right of all Mexicans to healthcare, and even peasant rights and agrarian reform. The Mexican government, concerned by the growing influence of these young doctors, …
The Cuban Cure
The Agrarian Dispute. The Expropriation of American‐owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico – By John J. Dwyer
Cold War, Deadly Fevers
The Aids Pandemic in Latin America
In an engagingly written book, Shawn Smallman explores the idea that to understand AIDS in Latin America we must place the disease within a broader international context. In other words, it is necessary to frame the evolution of the disease in the region as part of a larger geo-political phenomena, such as the drug trade, migration and war. Furthermore, one must consider the specific nature of the NGOs, the Church and private organisations when a…
Roundtable
Prakash Kumar, Timothy Lorek, Tore C. Olsson, Nicole Sackley, Sigrid Schmalzer, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution, Agricultural History, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Summer 2017), pp. 397-422
Let’s become fewer”
Bringing the Revolution to Medical Schools
This article explores the establishment of the 1936 Social Service requirement for medical students and the creation of a major in Rural Health at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico City to explain how health and physicians became an extension of the aims of the Mexican Revolution. The author argues that the 1930s attempt to bring doctors to rural areas had a two-fold intent that went beyond health and a geographic distribution of docto…
Moving From, and Beyond, Invented Categories
The decentering of narratives is no longer sufficient for bringing the past into sharper focus. As a discipline, we must contend with the continued power imbalance in the production and circulation of histories. It is necessary to give equal valence to histories produced by embracing a range of historical methods, many of which the essays in this forum explore. Doing so expands understandings of what counts as theory in our histories and their ob…
Uncommon trajectories
Poverty Alleviation from the Margins
A 1970s and 1980s poverty alleviation program, IMSS-COPLAMAR, challenged universal definitions of poverty as well as health models for rural areas while proffering a distinctly Mexican alternative. Yet this solution, broadly painting rural dwellers as marginados (marginalized), focused on need-based definitions of social exclusion and thus incongruously erased ethnic diversity while celebrating Indigenous forms of healing. Indeed, linking notions…
Shadowing the Professional Class
This article focuses on the shadowing of Mexican physicians during the 10-month long medical movement of 1964–65. The author highlights how hospital spaces, doctors' routines, medical hierarchies, and the nature of physicians' labour posed particular difficulties for secret service agents. By examining a report from May 1965, mid-way through the movement, it becomes clear how agents sought to better understand a group with little history of state…
Worker Once Known
How do we reevaluate the role of individuals whose contributions have not been erased—they are still visible—but whose labor has been demoted in the historical narrative because of their gender, class, or ethnicity? This brief essay is about more than simply bringing in overlooked actors; instead, it ponders why the act of mislabeling a person's labor merits further deliberation. Mislabeled archival evidence, such as the erroneous description acc…
Rogue Seeds in Disturbed Fields
Narratives of improved seed varieties often focus on scientists, controlled experimental fields, or laboratories. Seldom are farmers the protagonists of seed experimentation histories. Yet what happens when not-yet-released seeds appear in a farmer’s field and the blame is placed on the farmer—and not the lab from which the seeds “escaped”? How do we tell that story? More important, how has focusing on seeds—the objects themselves—taken our atten…
The Cuban Cure
The Aids Pandemic in Latin America
In an engagingly written book, Shawn Smallman explores the idea that to understand AIDS in Latin America we must place the disease within a broader international context. In other words, it is necessary to frame the evolution of the disease in the region as part of a larger geo-political phenomena, such as the drug trade, migration and war. Furthermore, one must consider the specific nature of the NGOs, the Church and private organisations when a…
Avatares de la medicalización en América Latina 1870–1970
Journal Article Avatares de la medicalización en América Latina 1870–1970 Get access Diego Armus (ed.), Avatares de la medicalización en América Latina 1870–1970 , Buenos Aires : Lugar Editorial , 2005 . Pp. 304 . €10 . ISBN 950–892–214–1 . Gabriela Soto Laveaga Gabriela Soto Laveaga University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of…
Salud, Tecnologia y Saber Medico
Jose Luís Barona Vilar, Madrid: Ramon Areces University, 2004. Pp. 268. €14. ISBN 8480046651. This book sets off with the ambitious task of analysing the relationship between ‘the development of medical knowledge, the transformation in the state of the world's health, the evolution of diseases, and the emergence of an industry and technology that are simultaneously ... influential in an international context’ (p. 17); it attempts to do all of thi…
Uncommon trajectories
Let’s become fewer”
Avatares de la medicalización en América Latina 1870–1970
Journal Article Avatares de la medicalización en América Latina 1870–1970 Get access Diego Armus (ed.), Avatares de la medicalización en América Latina 1870–1970 , Buenos Aires : Lugar Editorial , 2005 . Pp. 304 . €10 . ISBN 950–892–214–1 . Gabriela Soto Laveaga Gabriela Soto Laveaga University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of…
The Aids Pandemic in Latin America
In an engagingly written book, Shawn Smallman explores the idea that to understand AIDS in Latin America we must place the disease within a broader international context. In other words, it is necessary to frame the evolution of the disease in the region as part of a larger geo-political phenomena, such as the drug trade, migration and war. Furthermore, one must consider the specific nature of the NGOs, the Church and private organisations when a…
Cold War, Deadly Fevers
The Agrarian Dispute. The Expropriation of American‐owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico – By John J. Dwyer
Médicos, hospitales y servicios de inteligencia
In the autumn of 1964, residents and interns of Mexico's hospitals began a strike to demand salary increases, better working conditions, and more educational opportunities. As time passed, however, these workplace demands shifted to encompass more global issues of social justice, the right of all Mexicans to healthcare, and even peasant rights and agrarian reform. The Mexican government, concerned by the growing influence of these young doctors, …
The Cuban Cure
Bringing the Revolution to Medical Schools
This article explores the establishment of the 1936 Social Service requirement for medical students and the creation of a major in Rural Health at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico City to explain how health and physicians became an extension of the aims of the Mexican Revolution. The author argues that the 1930s attempt to bring doctors to rural areas had a two-fold intent that went beyond health and a geographic distribution of docto…
Shadowing the Professional Class
This article focuses on the shadowing of Mexican physicians during the 10-month long medical movement of 1964–65. The author highlights how hospital spaces, doctors' routines, medical hierarchies, and the nature of physicians' labour posed particular difficulties for secret service agents. By examining a report from May 1965, mid-way through the movement, it becomes clear how agents sought to better understand a group with little history of state…
Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968-2000
In Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968 – 2000, Dolores Trevizo focuses on a paradox in late twentieth- century Mexico: while peasant groups constituted the base of electoral support for the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), their uprisings in the 1970s and 1980s were pivotal to the demise of the regime. The author posits that by focusing on understudied nonrevolutionary social movements we can better understand how…
Building the nation of the future, one waiting room at a time
Mid-twentieth century Mexican hospitals – the buildings themselves and their interior and exterior walls – became stages that depicted national hopes and aspirations. Hospitals and clinics became ideal spaces that married science and medicine with the state’s version of a triumphant social revolution. Visitors and patients to hospital waiting rooms, lobbies and auditoriums would see, indeed be surrounded by, depictions of the complicated hopes pl…
Una Enfermedad Monstruo
In 2007, several Warao children in the Venezuelan jungle unexpectedly died in a terrifying fashion. Those who fell ill appeared to be healthy, but hours before dying they became listless, burned with fever, and started convulsing; some of the conscious or semiconscious screamed that monsters were taking them away. Ultimately they all died. Soon adults started to die as well. This book is part medical mystery (what was causing these horrible death…
Roundtable
Prakash Kumar, Timothy Lorek, Tore C. Olsson, Nicole Sackley, Sigrid Schmalzer, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Roundtable: New Narratives of the Green Revolution, Agricultural History, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Summer 2017), pp. 397-422
Race and the Epigenetics of Memory
In my brief response to Terence Keel’s essay “Race on Both Sides of the Razor,” I focus on something as pertinent as alleles and social construction: how we write history and how we memorialize the past. Current DNA analysis promises to remap our past and interrogate certainties that we have taken for granted. For the purposes of this commentary I call this displacing of known histories the epigenetics of memory. Just as environmental stimuli rou…
Largo dislocare
This brief essay uses Pandurang Khankhoje, an Indian scientist and political refugee in Mexico, as an example of the value of using a largo dislocare approach to write histories of science. Largo dislocare is an invitation to dislocate known histories not just geographically but also chronologically to better understand the motion of people, ideas and objects. By examining the largo (long) trajectory of science in spaces that do not conform to tr…
The socialist origins of the Green Revolution
Origin narratives of the Green Revolution have been periodized to influence who is seen as an expert and memorialized as such. This article pushes us to reframe technical assistance to include in country agricultural aid activities needed for many foreign assistance initiatives to succeed. Many agricultural-based technical assistance projects of the twentieth century trace their origins to the emergence of a Rockefeller Foundation-led Green Revol…
Moving From, and Beyond, Invented Categories
The decentering of narratives is no longer sufficient for bringing the past into sharper focus. As a discipline, we must contend with the continued power imbalance in the production and circulation of histories. It is necessary to give equal valence to histories produced by embracing a range of historical methods, many of which the essays in this forum explore. Doing so expands understandings of what counts as theory in our histories and their ob…
Institutional Reckonings in the History of Medicine
Institutional Reckonings in the History of Medicine Jeremy Greene, Alisha Rankin, and Gabriela Soto Laveaga This issue of the Bulletin includes three independently proposed articles that converge on the topic of institutional racism—and student activism against it—in the context of academic medicine in the United States. Two of the essays focus on the recent role of student activists in decrying the racist and eugenicist ideologies of vaunted phy…
Race science in the Latin world
Rogue Seeds in Disturbed Fields
Narratives of improved seed varieties often focus on scientists, controlled experimental fields, or laboratories. Seldom are farmers the protagonists of seed experimentation histories. Yet what happens when not-yet-released seeds appear in a farmer’s field and the blame is placed on the farmer—and not the lab from which the seeds “escaped”? How do we tell that story? More important, how has focusing on seeds—the objects themselves—taken our atten…
Poverty Alleviation from the Margins
A 1970s and 1980s poverty alleviation program, IMSS-COPLAMAR, challenged universal definitions of poverty as well as health models for rural areas while proffering a distinctly Mexican alternative. Yet this solution, broadly painting rural dwellers as marginados (marginalized), focused on need-based definitions of social exclusion and thus incongruously erased ethnic diversity while celebrating Indigenous forms of healing. Indeed, linking notions…
Of Canals, Rivers and the Right to Exist
What can a dying river teach us about post/de-colonial science and technology? In a post-COVID world, absence and loss will be a constant presence in the lives of most. While thinking with erasures and absence in science and technology studies is not new, our current moment pushes us to burrow deeper into the histories of technologies that produce manufactured empty space, examine histories that pushed groups to the fringes of documented memory a…
Worker Once Known
How do we reevaluate the role of individuals whose contributions have not been erased—they are still visible—but whose labor has been demoted in the historical narrative because of their gender, class, or ethnicity? This brief essay is about more than simply bringing in overlooked actors; instead, it ponders why the act of mislabeling a person's labor merits further deliberation. Mislabeled archival evidence, such as the erroneous description acc…
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