Ysabel Muñoz
Publications
EL MONTE EN ROJO: ENTRELAZANDO LITERATURA, ETNOGRAFÍA Y BOTÁNICA EN CUBA
This piece advocates for creating interdisciplinary bridges in the field of environmental humanities in Cuba through the literary work of Lydia Cabrera, especially in her well-known El Monte, a seminal text for approaching the folklore of this island.
Folklore, Place, and Song. A DH Review
The digital project Folklore, Place, and Song offers a rich archive of over a hundred corridos — a genre of “narrative song” that has become a cultural expression and historical record of long histories of migration across borders.
SEEKING JUSTICE IN TRANSITIONS: ON SÁMI AND MAPUCHE STRUGGLES WITH GREEN COLONIALISM
We are eager to welcome Mapuche & Sami delegations in Trondheim (on May 5, 2023) to explore the questions of environmental justice. This event is organized by ENVIROCEN and Latin-Amerikagruppene i Norge.
Book Review: Munoz on Lloréns, 'Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice'
Hilda Lloréns dedicates her recent volume, Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice, to the ethical and epistemological contributions from Black women in Puerto Rico.
NATION, TOXICITY, AND CARE: EXPLORING CHEMICAL KINSHIP IN CUBA’S LATEST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER
Pollution as a widespread phenomenon on the Cuban island has received less academic attention from the humanities and social sciences. This article reflects on this "dirty" side of the story, and the relations made visible in the Matanzas explosions.
Swimming with Trash in the Caribbean
The Caribbean art invites us to consider human stress on natural environments and nature’s capacity to cope with a trend of accelerated consumerism, when terrestrial and marine landscapes are substituted with threatening images of wastescapes.
Permaculture in Cuba. Designing Sustainability
Permaculture focuses on human habitat design and farming methods which mimic the relationships found in the patterns of nature. Its central axes are food production, energy supply, landscape design and the organization of (infra) social structures.
El juego de la escritura interminable, Book Review
En el Libro Uruguayo de los Muertos, Mario "Bellatin combina motivos dispersos, retomados una y otra vez: la perspectiva del escritor ante los procesos de creación literaria, la escritura de la biografía de una Frida Kahlo también cercenada".
These works focus on practices of environmental storytelling that can imbue imagination and activism with critical hope towards truly just sustainable futures.