Regionalismo ensamblado

Overview & Synopsis

Regionalismo ensamblado plantea una nueva conceptualización del regionalismo cultural latinoamericano como una forma de ecología política. El libro propone la idea de región y regionalismo como un ensamblaje entre espacios geográficos, prácticas sociales y materialidades a través de la producción literaria y discursiva de los años 1930-1940 como forma precursora de conocimiento socioecológico. The concept of assembled regionalism allows us to examine the texts of Enrique Bernardo Núñez, Carmen Lyra and César Uribe Piedrahita in dialogue with the environmental history of oil and mineral extraction in Venezuela, banana and coffee monoculture in Costa Rica, and rubber extraction and indigenous exploitation in Colombia. In their attempt to reflect the social and cultural impact of modes of production associated with the colonisation of nature, these intellectuals developed hybrid ways of writing and thinking a natural history of the Capitalocene. Combining Latin American political ecology with Marxist ecological critique, Regionalism Assembled explores newspaper articles, chronicles, historical-geographical essays, scientific studies, novels and political pamphlets as a political and cultural reaction to the global financial crisis of the 1930s-1940s, and the challenges it imposed in terms of the metabolic gap between society, capitalism and the environment. Book awarded a mention with diploma in the Professor Andrzej Dembicz Prize for the best doctoral thesis on Latin America and the Caribbean organised by the European Council for Social Research in Latin America (CEISAL).