the UCL IAS Review
EMILY BAKER
Taking Claude Lévi-Strauss’s memoir Tristes Tropiques as an example – what role do nonhuman entities play in fashioning narratives about the Amazon, whether produced by Indigenous people or ‘newcomers’?
LUCÍA STUBRIN
Bioart emerged in the 1990s and its artists generate a critical debate about biotechnology and life processes. This piece provides an overview of the bioart scene in Argentina.
ALICE VITTORIA
Walking occupies the everyday life of the Bayaka. It is a prerequisite for their well-being and one of the main sources of both cultural continuity and innovation. Forest walking is also an initiation into Bayaka relational ecology
MARIA PAULA PRATES
Mbyá-Guarani Indigenous women’s children are ever more likely to be born in hospitals and thus without the support of ambojau va’e (‘those who bathe’). What does this mean for the women’s reproductive and sexual health?
ROBERT PETITPAS
Delving into the Pewenche ecology of the pewen tree, this piece reflects on the problems and injustices of a colonial way of inhabiting the world and its related conservation approaches.
GIANFRANCO SELGAS
The period between 1890 to 1980 marked Venezuela’s insertion into the vortex of oil extraction. But the political and cultural discourses built around oil rendered invisible other cultures nurtured around the extraction of nature.
FÍACHA O’DOWDA
Many of the contemporary practices and ideas that underpin biodiversity conservation in Madagascar are imported and implemented from abroad. What does that mean for Indigenous’s practices?
TOMASZ JABLONSKI
The Spanish port of Sanlúcar is a crucial landmark in the history of European colonisation. The port was unavoidable for ships arriving in Europe and departing to the Americas. Countless opportunists and colonisers …