Multimodal Contributing Editor, Platypus, The CASTAC Blog
Research Interests
Ethnography of science and technology | Extraction | Feminist STS | Gender | Labor | Latin America | Media Anthropology | Migration | Neoliberalism | Political Anthropology | Political ecology | political economy |
About María Fernanda
I am a social anthropologist from Oaxaca, México, focusing my research and practice on the webs formed by labour, territory, mobility, and development in contemporary Mexico and Central America. I approach these topics through feminist political ecology and political economy perspectives, exploring them in academic research as well as artistic and pedagogical contexts. I coordinate Magma, an independent research-centred press and radio project devoted to climate and economic justice. I also enjoy organising workshops and working with tools as radio, photography, video, and cartography.
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Critical Metals, Magic Tricks, and Energy Transition: A Social Biography of Lithium
A passage from the novel Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor reads: La Matosa was slowly dotted once more with shacks and shanties raised on the bones of those who’d been crushed under the hillside; repopulated by outsiders, most of them lured by the promise of work, the construction of the new highway that was to run right through Villa and connect both the port and the capital to the recently discovered oil wells north of town, up in Palogacho, enough work for fondas and food stalls to start cropping up, and in time even cantinas, guest houses, knocking shops and strip clubs where the drivers, the travelling tradesmen and the day labourers would stop to take a moment from the monotony of that road flanked on either side by cane fields, cane and pastures and reeds filling every inch of land for miles and miles, in every direction, from the (read more...)