Escrituras del ambiente, el paisaje y el territorio. Ecocrítica y estudios culturales en América del Sur.

Abstract

This issue of Tekopora: Latin American journal of environmental humanities and territorial studies presents a diverse selection of contributions that contribute to the understanding of the various problems that emerge from the representations of the relationship between culture and nature within specific environmental contexts of Latin America. The rise of the environmental humanities in recent years coincides with the turn towards the “Anthropocene”, a term proposed by chemist Paul J. Crutzen and biologist Eugene F. Stoermer in 2000 to describe the time when climate change and other anthropogenic effects position humanity as a geological force, capable of transforming the planetary system and leaving its mark written in the geological strata of the earth, something that is evident on various scales. This new understanding of the human in relation to its planet has been the catalyst for vital questions about the positioning of the subject in the discourse of species, history, environment, politics, and culture.