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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco
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visiting researcher - currently applying to jobs || working with Indigenous communities in post-disaster contexts on food, plants, and (im)mobilities || a feminist geographer & decolonial scholar || yucateca
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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Dec 26
📢 #PublicationAlert

Happy to share that my paper "Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatan" has just been published in Gender, Place & Culture!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatán
Following decolonial and feminist geographic perspectives, in this paper I look at the everyday (re)productive work of Maya women in their home-gardens in the Peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico. Building...
www.tandfonline.com
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¡Nuestro recetario por fin está listo!

Este libro surge del trabajo colectivo del proyecto "Recetas para la Recuperación" (2023-2025), una propuesta de investigación-acción feminista, transformadora y decolonial.

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Portada del libro de recetas "Mujeres Tz'utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk".
August 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Our recipe book is finally published! Have a look at some of the recipes from Tz'utujil Maya women from our "Recipes for Recovery" project.
This work was part of my contribution to the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social based at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social as a postdoc.
Thank you all who contributed! 🌱
edinburghdiamond.bsky.social Edinburgh Diamond @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social · Jul 29
We are pleased to share our latest #OA book, 'Mujeres Tz’utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk'.

This recipe book is part of a transformative feminist & decolonial project that documents the agri-food traditions within the work of Tz'utujil Maya women.

books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...
An image of a lake with trees and mountains wafts up from a cooking pot being stirred by a spoon.
July 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Almost there! We are finishing our collaborative book between a group of Tz'utujil women in Guatemala and a small team from the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social. This book brings together some of the everyday food recipes of this group of women who were resettled to a new town after a disaster.
Cover of our recipe book.
June 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is.

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#App #Food #Agriculture #Farms #FoodSystems #Climate
A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is
A “first of its kind" tool could help untangle the complex global web of food supply chains and make it more resilient to climate shocks.
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June 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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jasonhickel.bsky.social
On this day in 1954, the United States orchestrated a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive and democratically-elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.
June 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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In case you missed our book launch, here's the link to the recorded version!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqXt...

Unfortunately, I couldn't be there for the live event, but you can see a pre-recorded presentation of my chapter :)

Thank you to the editors and other authors of the book!
May 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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mongabaylatam.bsky.social
🇲🇽🔎 La degradación ambiental que enfrenta Quintana Roo, el único estado del Caribe que tiene #México, es alarmante. Ciudadanos y colectivos presentaron cuatro iniciativas que buscan regular el crecimiento urbano sin control en la zona. tinyurl.com/26k34ecc
Al rescate del Caribe mexicano: ciudadanos proponen leyes para frenar impactos ambientales del avance inmobiliario en Quintana Roo
Ante la degradación ambiental en Quintana Roo, ciudadanos presentaron iniciativas de leyes para regular el crecimiento urbano sin control.
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May 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Wondering why my brain feels like 🫠...
Severe weather alert for excesive heat in Mérida.
May 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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My paper "Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatán" is now in a published issue of Gender, Place & Culture!
Have a look here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3...
#FeministGeographies #MayaWomen
Gender, Place & Culture
Volume 32, Issue 5 of Gender, Place & Culture
www.tandfonline.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Book available now!
Do ask your universities to get a copy 😅

Link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
ana-j.bsky.social Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Mar 27
Coming soon!
tinyurl.com/3md7ty83

In this chapter, I analyse the construction and strengthening of biocultural territories in the Yucatán Peninsula, focusing on the practices and experiences within solares (home gardens) as geographical and symbolic spaces.

#decolonial #wayoflife #MayaPeople
Building biocultural territoriesin the Solares of the Yucatán Peninsul
The solar is the basic territorial unit for peninsular Maya families, where their traditional ways of life endure, intertwining nature and culture. In this
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April 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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When you admire someone's work (and cite them) and one day they contact you directly to ask for copies of your paper and PhD thesis because they are interested in reading them 😀✨🤓
April 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Coming soon!
tinyurl.com/3md7ty83

In this chapter, I analyse the construction and strengthening of biocultural territories in the Yucatán Peninsula, focusing on the practices and experiences within solares (home gardens) as geographical and symbolic spaces.

#decolonial #wayoflife #MayaPeople
Building biocultural territoriesin the Solares of the Yucatán Peninsul
The solar is the basic territorial unit for peninsular Maya families, where their traditional ways of life endure, intertwining nature and culture. In this
tinyurl.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
ana-j.bsky.social
Save the date!
Join me and the editors and fellow co-authors of the book "Territorial Development in Latin America Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions" at the online book launch organised by the RSA.
21 May 2025
16.00 BST
Registration: lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...
Book cover "Territories and Development in Latin America. Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions"
March 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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ipes-food.org
♀️🌍 #InternationalWomensDay reminds us WOMEN FEED THE WORLD!

Women produce 60% of food in the Global South—yet are denied land, finance & power.

“If we don’t get more gender equality in #foodsystems, we’ll keep skewing toward profit—away from sustainability & feeding people.”
#IWD2025
WOMEN GROW, COOK & SUSTAIN OUR FOOD. IT'S TIME TO RECOGNIZE THEM
YouTube video by IPES-Food
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March 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Check out the 1st article in our special issue on Community Voices in #JournalofAppliedVolcanology by Ailsa Naismith: 'Illustrating Fuego' #volcano which documents local people's experiences of Fuego's #eruptions. Read it now👇🌋🏘️🎨

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Figure 7 from Naismith et al. 2025 in Journal of Applied Volcanology, illustrating the process of producing a zine page on local people's experiences of Fuego's eruptions.
March 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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jksteinberger.bsky.social
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation First, clarity on distinguishing AIs: Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use). Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work Generative: ChatGPT & Co. You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content. Why is this delegation of work problematic? 3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement. (Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.) 1) AI and ethics Mass theft of all and everything «learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …): «correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 2) AI and (un)sustainability Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs. Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 3) AI and intellectual engagement First, what learning is (or should be) about: The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge, But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Despedidas, reencuentros y muchos planes con café de por medio. Se vienen cosas bonitas, pero también se terminan procesos y se cierran proyectos. 💜
Mientras tanto, mi maleta decidió quedarse un rato más 😂.
¡Hasta pronto, Lago Atitlán!
Lago Atitlán desde Panajachel, con los volcanes Tolimán, Atitlán, San Pedro y Cerro de Oro al fondo.
February 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Yesterday I presented some of my work in @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social as part of the session "Art as collaborative practice: Socio-environmental learning with communities" for the Edinburgh Environment & Development Network (EEDN).
Always a joy to share the use of creative arts in research!
#geography
Drawings and a collage as creative outputs in research. Below, using creative arts in a collaborative way with communities. Drawing in the bottom right by Kyra Rodas and Andrea Rabinal.
February 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Have a look at some of the traditions of Maya women in the territories of Yucatán in my latest paper. You can even find food recipes!

"The joroch is made with the squash flowers… there are some squashes used for taking the seeds [pepita] out. Those are the ones for the joroch. 1/
February 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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jlangill.bsky.social
Our themed section “Towards Feminist Geographies of Livelihoods” has now been assigned to an issue in Gender, Place & Culture! tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/current
Gender, Place & Culture
Volume 32, Issue 1 of Gender, Place & Culture
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January 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
ana-j.bsky.social
In 2021, I spent some time with Maya women in Yucatán walking around their solares (home gardens) and talking about plants, land, food recipes, traditional medicine, water, and Maya ceremonies, amongst others.

In this paper I engage with their everyday work and territories.
#newpaper #postdoc
Photos from fieldwork in 2021: native beekeeping, onion harvesting, piglet, beetroot crops, and local food.
January 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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profgillian.bsky.social
an important report on precarity in UK geography departments: “Whilst we cannot take full responsibility for the endemic structural problems within UK Higher Education, nor can we cede responsibility for caring about our colleagues.” blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r... @rgsibg.bsky.social
Resources for change: raising awareness of the challenges of fixed term contracts in geography departments
By the States of Precarity Team:, Johanne Bruun, Rachel Colls, James Esson, Peter Forman, Anna Jackman,  Rachael Squire (corresponding author) “Because geography is about attention to difference an…
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January 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Two of my favourite things in Edinburgh: its city layers and its free library workshops! ✨
A cutout of Edinburgh's skyline and my concertina (not quite finished yet) inspired by it.
January 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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paperwhispers.bsky.social
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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November 21, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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2024 in nine photos, what a year!
Happy 2025! 🎉✨
2024's top nine photos: Finland's snowshoeing trip, Clava Cairns, Lago Atitlán, the Cairngorms, la Antigua Guatemala, Northern Lights in Edinburgh, and the Culloden Viaduct.
January 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM