The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies presents Tania López Marrero, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Juan Giusti Cordero, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras; Claudia Martínez Herrera, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba; Jorge Nieves Rivera, Universidad Ana G. Méndez, Gurabo, Puerto Rico; and Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez y Universidad de La Habana, Cuba:
“Resistance & Resilience: Responses to the Climate Crisis from Cuba & Puerto Rico, Session 2: Environmental History.”
Moderated by Margarita Fernández Pérez, Caribbean Agroecology Institute & Cuba-US Agroecology Network.
Zoom session, 3:00 p.m. Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsxPtaIopvCprrRx1ZYmuglM3YDSHYKml5vwCLXmceAqgI4g/viewform
The environmental crisis in the Caribbean has deep roots in colonial patterns of exploitation of human labor and nature. Exploring environmental history allows us to delve into that past as part of the struggle for a “Culture of Nature.”
In Spanish, with English interpretation