Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo
@mibarizt.bsky.social
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Ecological Humanities, Colonialism | Author of Ecological Imperialism in EM Spanish Narratives | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3255-8637
Happy to be presenting my talk “Imperial Ecologies and Anticolonial Ways of Seeing in Caribbean Plantation Modernities” at the UCD School of Languages this Monday at 3 pm (Irish time) in Newman Building, D301.
If you’d like to join via Zoom, feel free to contact me for the link!
If you’d like to join via Zoom, feel free to contact me for the link!
October 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Happy to be presenting my talk “Imperial Ecologies and Anticolonial Ways of Seeing in Caribbean Plantation Modernities” at the UCD School of Languages this Monday at 3 pm (Irish time) in Newman Building, D301.
If you’d like to join via Zoom, feel free to contact me for the link!
If you’d like to join via Zoom, feel free to contact me for the link!
El artículo forma parte del blog sobre memoria pública coordinado por Pablo Sánchez León y Enrique Maestu Fonseca, a quienes agradezco la invitación. Aquí comparto la reflexión final tras un breve análisis crítico sobre el discurso expositivo del Museo de América en Madrid. 👇👇
October 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
El artículo forma parte del blog sobre memoria pública coordinado por Pablo Sánchez León y Enrique Maestu Fonseca, a quienes agradezco la invitación. Aquí comparto la reflexión final tras un breve análisis crítico sobre el discurso expositivo del Museo de América en Madrid. 👇👇
¿Cómo los procesos históricos de desposesión y migración han configurado las formas modernas de ciudadanía, propiedad y racialización? El texto abre con la escultura Humanity, de James Colomina, instalada en la antigua plaza Antonio López y López —rebautizada en 2021 como plaza Idrissa Diallo. 👇
October 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
¿Cómo los procesos históricos de desposesión y migración han configurado las formas modernas de ciudadanía, propiedad y racialización? El texto abre con la escultura Humanity, de James Colomina, instalada en la antigua plaza Antonio López y López —rebautizada en 2021 como plaza Idrissa Diallo. 👇
Seen together, the 2018 and 2025 images illustrate not only the shift from shared authority to concentrated power, but also the transformation of the Western liberal consensus into a hierarchical architecture of global power, increasingly dependent on displays of military dominance.
August 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Seen together, the 2018 and 2025 images illustrate not only the shift from shared authority to concentrated power, but also the transformation of the Western liberal consensus into a hierarchical architecture of global power, increasingly dependent on displays of military dominance.
El genocidio en Gaza ha sido posible no solo por quienes lo ejecutan, sino también por la complicidad pasiva de gobiernos y grandes medios que han optado por eufemismos como “crisis humanitaria”. Hoy merece la pena leer el editorial y los artículos que van en la portada digital de @elpais.com.
July 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
El genocidio en Gaza ha sido posible no solo por quienes lo ejecutan, sino también por la complicidad pasiva de gobiernos y grandes medios que han optado por eufemismos como “crisis humanitaria”. Hoy merece la pena leer el editorial y los artículos que van en la portada digital de @elpais.com.
CONVOCATORIA: La Revista Huellas: Spanish Journal on Slavery, Colonialism, Resistances and Legacies les invita a enviar sus ensayos para el próximo número (Número 3). Además de las imágenes, encontrarán toda la información sobre el envío de ensayos en el siguiente enlace: links.uv.es/gevmecyl/Hue...
July 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
CONVOCATORIA: La Revista Huellas: Spanish Journal on Slavery, Colonialism, Resistances and Legacies les invita a enviar sus ensayos para el próximo número (Número 3). Además de las imágenes, encontrarán toda la información sobre el envío de ensayos en el siguiente enlace: links.uv.es/gevmecyl/Hue...
Fermin Muguruza ayer en la Button Factory de Dublín: conciertazo. Un lujo poder verlo en una sala pequeñita ¡y bailarse un buen ska!
April 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Fermin Muguruza ayer en la Button Factory de Dublín: conciertazo. Un lujo poder verlo en una sala pequeñita ¡y bailarse un buen ska!
El concepto de imperialismo ecológico se fundamenta en la intención de legitimar o imponer marcos conceptuales y categorías que sostienen la posesión y el uso de tierras y recursos a través de distintos ámbitos como la guerra, el comercio, el derecho, la ciencia, la historia o la filosofía.
April 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
El concepto de imperialismo ecológico se fundamenta en la intención de legitimar o imponer marcos conceptuales y categorías que sostienen la posesión y el uso de tierras y recursos a través de distintos ámbitos como la guerra, el comercio, el derecho, la ciencia, la historia o la filosofía.
El imperialismo ecológico es, ante todo, un fenómeno político. Reducir la violencia de la expansión colonial europea a una lógica biológica implica despolitizarla y naturalizar relaciones históricas de dominación.
elpais.com/planeta-futu...
elpais.com/planeta-futu...
April 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
El imperialismo ecológico es, ante todo, un fenómeno político. Reducir la violencia de la expansión colonial europea a una lógica biológica implica despolitizarla y naturalizar relaciones históricas de dominación.
elpais.com/planeta-futu...
elpais.com/planeta-futu...
"What became important was not only defining an approach to conquest but also how expanding trade dynamics created a planetary framework.[...] Discussions about war were intertwined with ideas about human mobility and global trade, including the commodification of humans reduced to labor force." 👇👇👇
April 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"What became important was not only defining an approach to conquest but also how expanding trade dynamics created a planetary framework.[...] Discussions about war were intertwined with ideas about human mobility and global trade, including the commodification of humans reduced to labor force." 👇👇👇
With global politics shifting around US–China trade relations, I share my chapter "War, Trade, and Imperialism in Iberian Narratives of China," exploring how EM Iberians wrote about China through the intertwined logics of trade, war, and empire. DM if you'd like a copy! #earlymodern #politics
April 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
With global politics shifting around US–China trade relations, I share my chapter "War, Trade, and Imperialism in Iberian Narratives of China," exploring how EM Iberians wrote about China through the intertwined logics of trade, war, and empire. DM if you'd like a copy! #earlymodern #politics
It is intriguing that, as U.S. hegemony declines, opium is once again a key disruptive force —much as it did in 19th-century China. I recommend Amitav Ghosh's novels and his book, Smoke and Ashes, to grasp the turning point in this history of opium as an agent of change in empire-making structures.
March 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It is intriguing that, as U.S. hegemony declines, opium is once again a key disruptive force —much as it did in 19th-century China. I recommend Amitav Ghosh's novels and his book, Smoke and Ashes, to grasp the turning point in this history of opium as an agent of change in empire-making structures.
¡Estos tres CFPs para el MLA se ven rebuenos! (MLA 2026, January 8-11 Toronto): 1. Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period. 2. A (Not so) Holly Office. Censorship, Academic Freedom and Research. 3. Family Ties and Intimacies in the Early Modern Hispanic World.
March 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
¡Estos tres CFPs para el MLA se ven rebuenos! (MLA 2026, January 8-11 Toronto): 1. Nature Writing in the Early Modern Period. 2. A (Not so) Holly Office. Censorship, Academic Freedom and Research. 3. Family Ties and Intimacies in the Early Modern Hispanic World.
Anti-capitalist struggle extends beyond the exploitation of labor: "expropriation is a continuous mechanism of accumulation that operates alongside the official mechanism of exploitation." Framing the current political momentum in these terms provides a clearer path for anti-capitalist struggles.
February 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Anti-capitalist struggle extends beyond the exploitation of labor: "expropriation is a continuous mechanism of accumulation that operates alongside the official mechanism of exploitation." Framing the current political momentum in these terms provides a clearer path for anti-capitalist struggles.
Rather than framing cloud capital as the end of capitalism or the rise of technofeudalism, a more compelling approach is to focus on capitalism’s persistent orientation toward expropriation: "the hidden necessity here is expropriation." (Nancy Fraser, Cannibal Capitalism)
February 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Rather than framing cloud capital as the end of capitalism or the rise of technofeudalism, a more compelling approach is to focus on capitalism’s persistent orientation toward expropriation: "the hidden necessity here is expropriation." (Nancy Fraser, Cannibal Capitalism)
🌍🌱 Want to explore the intersection of EM Iberian narratives on China and Southeast Asia with the rise of environmental conflicts driven by Spanish imperialism? 📚 Check out Chapters 1 & 4 of Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives. #earlymodern #envhist
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
January 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🌍🌱 Want to explore the intersection of EM Iberian narratives on China and Southeast Asia with the rise of environmental conflicts driven by Spanish imperialism? 📚 Check out Chapters 1 & 4 of Ecological Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives. #earlymodern #envhist
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Garza real, tomando el sol en Herbert Park.
December 1, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Garza real, tomando el sol en Herbert Park.
Excited to head to Paris next week for a conference with amazing colleagues. I will speak about colonial memory and the erasure of transatlantic slavery in Spanish museums. I will focus on the Museo de América, one of two museums currently under review for a permanent exhibition renovation.
November 23, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Excited to head to Paris next week for a conference with amazing colleagues. I will speak about colonial memory and the erasure of transatlantic slavery in Spanish museums. I will focus on the Museo de América, one of two museums currently under review for a permanent exhibition renovation.
I’m thrilled that this book is heading to the printer and will be released by Amsterdam University Press (@amsterdamupress.bsky.social) in December. I will be sharing more details soon!
November 15, 2024 at 5:32 PM
I’m thrilled that this book is heading to the printer and will be released by Amsterdam University Press (@amsterdamupress.bsky.social) in December. I will be sharing more details soon!
Good morning, BlueSky! As X plans its journey to Mars, I’m making the move to this platform. I hope it will allow me to avoid reading techno-feudalist posts, shaped by digital plantation owners. The artwork in my profile is by Aristides Fernández, a painter born in Güines, Cuba, in 1904.
November 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Good morning, BlueSky! As X plans its journey to Mars, I’m making the move to this platform. I hope it will allow me to avoid reading techno-feudalist posts, shaped by digital plantation owners. The artwork in my profile is by Aristides Fernández, a painter born in Güines, Cuba, in 1904.