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Oscar A. Pérez
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Language/literature/film/history & science/technology/environment | Lengua/literatura/cine/historia & ciencia/tecnología/medioambiente | Professor | oaperez.com | #LatinAmericanStudies #EnvHum #LitSci #STS
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what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
January 28, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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🐎¡Nueva entrada en [LAT-STS Library]!

"Repartir el agua de la Revolución" de Mikael Wolfe revela la historia ambiental de la reforma agraria en México y su impacto en las desigualdades rurales.💧

🔗Acceso abierto en tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/
#HistoriaAmbiental #México #ReformaAgraria
January 26, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Why does #openaccess matter and what’s at stake if scholarship isn’t publicly available? This Thursday, 1/29, ACLS President Joy Connolly will participate in an @oaspa.bsky.social webinar to discuss the importance of #OA beyond academia.

Register: bit.ly/4benLQe

Full info & bios: bit.ly/4aBRXnU
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January 26, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION, edited by Cristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez, explores the relationships between plants, animals, and humans across various countries and historical periods and through a wide range of cultural production. #UFPress
Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production
Challenging anthropocentric perspectives by highlighting cultural representations of plants and animals across Latin American historyThe first book to integr...
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January 20, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Roberto Mendoza-Farías (@rmf.bsky.social) maps spectral spaces in two works of Fernanda Melchor in “Una mirada al abismo: Espacio espectral y la producción social de violencia de género en la obra de Fernanda Melchor.”

Link below.

🎨 Detail from Hurricane Season published by New Directions
January 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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NEW! The Battle for Brazil, by Susanne M. Litrel, is an examination of a crucial turning point in the colonial history of Brazil and especially the enduring consequences of local and trans-Atlantic resistance to Dutch colonialism.
www.unmpress.com/978082636904...
The book cover for the new book by Suzanne M. Litrel, The Battle for Brazil, Resistance, Renewal, and the War Against the Dutch, 1580–1654, and a review of the book: “In a refreshing new take on Portuguese Brazil, Suzanne Litrel shows how disadvantaged groups seized opportunities to assert themselves in the long war with the Dutch. Her book not only details the role of Indigenous and Black men but also reveals the impact of women of all backgrounds as strong-willed patriots and valiant combatants.” ~Wim Klooster, author of Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History
January 12, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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MLA is over, but you can still still visit our books online and take 30% off at z.umn.edu/mla26 #MLA26
Book sale: Modern Language Association 2026 - University of Minnesota Press
Books on sale during the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association in Toronto. Books featured in this collection are 30% off when you order using promo code MN94920.Offer... READ MORE
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January 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Environment and History Vol. 32, no. 1 is out now! This issue includes new research articles, snapshots, book reviews, and the @eseh.bsky.social notepad. Subscribers can read here liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32/1 🗃️ #envhist
January 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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#MLA2026 ends today but our conference discount lasts through February 23! Save 40% on all books and journal issues when you use code MLA26 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, CAP. #Literature #LiteraryStudies buff.ly/fi06u5w
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January 11, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Don’t miss Eric A. Vázquez’s States of Defeat at MLA! Read about the cultural reverberations of Central America’s failed revolutions on US intellectual thought #MLA26
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January 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Join us Saturday, 01/10, to talk about plants and animals in Latin America. @vanesamiseres.bsky.social, Jonathan Mulki, Kate Ostrom, Niall Peach, Beatriz Rivera-Barnes, @sierramatute.bsky.social, and I will share perspectives from ‘Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production.’ #MLA26
563 - Thinking with Plants and Animals through Latin American Texts Saturday, 10 January 2026 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM MTCC - 602B Description Panelists explore the intersection of critical plant studies and critical animal studies in Latin American cultural production, reconsidering the ethics, agency, and representation of nonhuman life by examining literature, film, and visual arts from the region. Discussion focuses on how plants and animals shape multispecies narratives, challenging human-centered frameworks in the humanities. Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production Edited by Cristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez Published by: University of Florida Press
January 10, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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CONTESTING THE CLIMATE UNTHINKABLE, edited by Azucena Castro, Gianfranco Selgas, and Ken Benson, examines Latin American cultural works that rethink environmental change and natural catastrophes. #UFPress
Contesting the Climate Unthinkable
Examining Latin American cultural works that rethink environmental change and natural catastrophesThis volume explores Latin American cultural works from the...
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January 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome.
Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!

deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies
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January 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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"Researchers have reconfigured the traditional use of natural history collections for taxonomic, systematic, and biogeographical study into indicators of global climate change." - @nulybranch.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/11/24/b...

#envhist #histsci #naturalhistory #climatechange
Big C3 Energy: Arctic Plant Collections as Evidence for the Climate Crisis.
Arctic plants use efficient C3 photosynthesis to survive cold, now serving as biased yet vital climate-change indicators.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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#CallForPapers deadline 31 January

Moving Images/Moving Geographies:
Video Essays in ‘Spanish’ Visual Cultures

We're looking for video essays which develop this innovative mode of presenting film, TV, screen, media, and moving image research in Hispanic visual studies

go.qub.ac.uk/G6kbc
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January 7, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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For the New Year, we're running a SALE of 25% off all books on our site. Use code WHP2026NY on anything listed here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... || Thanks to M. Johnson for painting these aconites, blossoming near Cambridge even in deep midwinter. #envhist #envhum #pastorialism #plantstudies
January 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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“Technology and History: ‘Kranzberg’s Laws’,” was published in Technology and Culture in *1986*— that's *forty fucking years ago* people— & it was delivered as his (Kranzberg's) presidential address to the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) the year before that, so we're rolling up on 41…
December 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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📖[LAT-STS Library]

Discover new perspectives & explore the latest entry on our library:

"Health, Nutrition and Inequality in Latin America. An Antrhopometric History",
ed. by Manuel Llorca-Jaña, José Miguel Martínez-Carrión & Ricardo Salvatore. 🍎

🔗More at tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/
December 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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🟨Just out!

New Book Review ”Unpacking the maraña: leishmaniasis as human and more-than-human violence in Colombia's armed conflict and global health discourse”.🪢

By Isabella Jaimes Rodríguez

🖇Open Access doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2569154
#BookReview #Maraña #LinaPinto #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
December 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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What is the role of #STS in reimagining #SoutheastAsia as an #Area? How can #STS do so without letting any single regime of spatial identity dominate to the extent that it becomes fixed or given?

👀Read T. Winichakul’s meditation in his Afterword: https://doi.org/qjxb
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December 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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We've added a new post to our blog, by Björn Billing on 'Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period'; read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/12/22/v... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social #iceberg #arctic
Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period
Today’s blog by Björn Billing introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, December 2025), Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770 and shows how…
whitehorsepress.blog
December 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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We are so grateful and happy to read the authors in the new Special Issue of the Romance Quarterly: Espacios espectrales en escritoras hispanoamericanas

Have you visited their articles yet?

Visit the link below!
December 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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#Areas are not containers—they materialise, for example, as the changing set of #multispecies entanglements linking humans, cattle, chemicals, and cultural tastes across borders

👀Read by @JirapornZwemmer on Southeast Asian cross-border #CattleTrade: https://doi.org/qjv4
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December 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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We've published a new #openaccess article ahead of print in 'The Journal of Population and Sustainability' in which Richard Grossman asks 'Is Legal Abortion Required for a Sustainable Population?' Online here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpj... #population #reproductiverights #sustainability
December 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM