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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

New #chapter! "Plants for #Recovery: Indigenous Women’s Perspectives in a #Post-disaster Resettlement" looks at the work of Tz'utujil women in their home gardens in #Guatemala. Here, women transform small plots, windowsills, and communal corners into living archives of #Maya knowledge.

Chapter cover, corn, and home garden in Chuk Muk.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"Tumbar el monte" is an essential first step when preparing a site for a milpa (rainfed agricultural plot). It means to knock the (low)forest down, part of a slash-and-burn process. Monte is the word we use in Yucatán for the forest. Why is this official document translating it as "mount tomb"?!? 🥲

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A bit of food, traditions, and biocultural practices and territories. I wrote a wee piece about "relleno negro", a tasty and spicy dish from Yucatán in Mexico. Recipe included! Happy cooking :) thefoodscapescollective.com/2026/01/29/r...

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Bite-Sized Histories: Relleno Negro, A Spicy Taste from Yucatán

Rooted in the ancient milpa system of the Yucatán Peninsula, relleno negro is more than a dish—it is a living expression of Maya foodways. From charred chillies to communal celebrations, this smoky…

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Our recipe book is finally published! Have a look at some of the recipes from Tz'utujil Maya women from our "Recipes for Recovery" project. This work was part of my contribution to the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social based at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social as a postdoc. Thank you all who contributed! 🌱

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Juggling work, applications, (new) teaching, training, writing, and trying to have healthy habits, with the world collapsing in a new and exciting way every day: I'm exhausted by 8 Jan. (Oh yeah, I also only had three days off this end of year, so add that) 🫠 But yeah, happy new year!

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

¡Nuestro recetario por fin está listo! Este libro surge del trabajo colectivo del proyecto "Recetas para la Recuperación" (2023-2025), una propuesta de investigación-acción feminista, transformadora y decolonial. books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

Portada del libro de recetas "Mujeres Tz'utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk".

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Almost there! We are finishing our collaborative book between a group of Tz'utujil women in Guatemala and a small team from the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social. This book brings together some of the everyday food recipes of this group of women who were resettled to a new town after a disaster.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

On this day in 1954, the United States orchestrated a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive and democratically-elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

In case you missed our book launch, here's the link to the recorded version! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqXt... Unfortunately, I couldn't be there for the live event, but you can see a pre-recorded presentation of my chapter :) Thank you to the editors and other authors of the book!

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Book launch: Territorial Development in Latin America: Cultural, Economic & Environmental Dimensions

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Mongabay Latam @mongabaylatam.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🇲🇽🔎 La degradación ambiental que enfrenta Quintana Roo, el único estado del Caribe que tiene #México, es alarmante. Ciudadanos y colectivos presentaron cuatro iniciativas que buscan regular el crecimiento urbano sin control en la zona. tinyurl.com/26k34ecc

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Al rescate del Caribe mexicano: ciudadanos proponen leyes para frenar impactos ambientales del avance inmobiliario en Quintana Roo

Ante la degradación ambiental en Quintana Roo, ciudadanos presentaron iniciativas de leyes para regular el crecimiento urbano sin control.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Wondering why my brain feels like 🫠...

Severe weather alert for excesive heat in Mérida.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

My paper "Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatán" is now in a published issue of Gender, Place & Culture! Have a look here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3... #FeministGeographies #MayaWomen

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Gender, Place & Culture

Volume 32, Issue 5 of Gender, Place & Culture

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Book available now! Do ask your universities to get a copy 😅 Link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

When you admire someone's work (and cite them) and one day they contact you directly to ask for copies of your paper and PhD thesis because they are interested in reading them 😀✨🤓

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Coming soon! tinyurl.com/3md7ty83 In this chapter, I analyse the construction and strengthening of biocultural territories in the Yucatán Peninsula, focusing on the practices and experiences within solares (home gardens) as geographical and symbolic spaces. #decolonial #wayoflife #MayaPeople

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Building biocultural territoriesin the Solares of the Yucatán Peninsul

The solar is the basic territorial unit for peninsular Maya families, where their traditional ways of life endure, intertwining nature and culture. In this

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Save the date! Join me and the editors and fellow co-authors of the book "Territorial Development in Latin America Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions" at the online book launch organised by the RSA. 21 May 2025 16.00 BST Registration: lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...

Book cover "Territories and Development in Latin America. Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions"

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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 08/03/2025

♀️🌍 #InternationalWomensDay reminds us WOMEN FEED THE WORLD! Women produce 60% of food in the Global South—yet are denied land, finance & power. “If we don’t get more gender equality in #foodsystems, we’ll keep skewing toward profit—away from sustainability & feeding people.” #IWD2025

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WOMEN GROW, COOK & SUSTAIN OUR FOOD. IT'S TIME TO RECOGNIZE THEM

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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Check out the 1st article in our special issue on Community Voices in #JournalofAppliedVolcanology by Ailsa Naismith: 'Illustrating Fuego' #volcano which documents local people's experiences of Fuego's #eruptions. Read it now👇🌋🏘️🎨 appliedvolc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Figure 7 from Naismith et al. 2025 in Journal of Applied Volcanology, illustrating the process of producing a zine page on local people's experiences of Fuego's eruptions.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Despedidas, reencuentros y muchos planes con café de por medio. Se vienen cosas bonitas, pero también se terminan procesos y se cierran proyectos. 💜 Mientras tanto, mi maleta decidió quedarse un rato más 😂. ¡Hasta pronto, Lago Atitlán!

Lago Atitlán desde Panajachel, con los volcanes Tolimán, Atitlán, San Pedro y Cerro de Oro al fondo.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Yesterday I presented some of my work in @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social as part of the session "Art as collaborative practice: Socio-environmental learning with communities" for the Edinburgh Environment & Development Network (EEDN). Always a joy to share the use of creative arts in research! #geography

Drawings and a collage as creative outputs in research. Below, using creative arts in a collaborative way with communities. Drawing in the bottom right by Kyra Rodas and Andrea Rabinal.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Have a look at some of the traditions of Maya women in the territories of Yucatán in my latest paper. You can even find food recipes! "The joroch is made with the squash flowers… there are some squashes used for taking the seeds [pepita] out. Those are the ones for the joroch. 1/

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Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatán

Following decolonial and feminist geographic perspectives, in this paper I look at the everyday (re)productive work of Maya women in their home-gardens in the Peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico. Building...

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Jennifer Langill @jlangill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Our themed section “Towards Feminist Geographies of Livelihoods” has now been assigned to an issue in Gender, Place & Culture! tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/current

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Gender, Place & Culture

Volume 32, Issue 1 of Gender, Place & Culture

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

In 2021, I spent some time with Maya women in Yucatán walking around their solares (home gardens) and talking about plants, land, food recipes, traditional medicine, water, and Maya ceremonies, amongst others. In this paper I engage with their everyday work and territories. #newpaper #postdoc

Photos from fieldwork in 2021: native beekeeping, onion harvesting, piglet, beetroot crops, and local food.

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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

an important report on precarity in UK geography departments: “Whilst we cannot take full responsibility for the endemic structural problems within UK Higher Education, nor can we cede responsibility for caring about our colleagues.” blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r... @rgsibg.bsky.social

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Resources for change: raising awareness of the challenges of fixed term contracts in geography departments

By the States of Precarity Team:, Johanne Bruun, Rachel Colls, James Esson, Peter Forman, Anna Jackman, Rachael Squire (corresponding author) “Because geography is about attention to difference an…

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Two of my favourite things in Edinburgh: its city layers and its free library workshops! ✨

A cutout of Edinburgh's skyline and my concertina (not quite finished yet) inspired by it.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

2024 in nine photos, what a year! Happy 2025! 🎉✨

2024's top nine photos: Finland's snowshoeing trip, Clava Cairns, Lago Atitlán, the Cairngorms, la Antigua Guatemala, Northern Lights in Edinburgh, and the Culloden Viaduct.

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I haven't been home for xmas in a couple of years. I'm here this year. It has never been so chaotic and random, I'm so stressed. But I've never laughed-to-tears so many times in a day too! Anyway, Happy Holidays! ✨💜😃

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Proofs submitted! This is finally happening ✨🤗 #papercomingsoon

Header of proofs of my manuscript titled Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatán in Gender, Place & Culture.

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e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

CALL FOR ZINES! geoz.one is hosting the first ever geography zine fair at annual meeting of @geographers in Detroit (March 2025)! You can send us zines in the mail, bring them in person, or have us print some. All info here: bit.ly/40ecAS3. Please RT to share! #geosky

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GEOZONe

An archive of mayhem-making zines and radical geographic print ephemera

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Three papers/chapters revised and resubmitted over the last couple of weeks. Fantastic things are brewing and I can't wait to share my work on/with home gardens, Maya territories, and the work of Indigenous women in Mexico and Guatemala! #publicationsoon #postdoc

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Last chance for this event tonight! 🌋🎥

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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Penultimate event in our @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social project #volcano film series tonight in Edinburgh 👇Last chance to see Pobo 'Tzu'. Join us in #Edinburgh!

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Now that there's a bit more people around, here it goes again! @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Do you know anyone who speaks Tz'utujil and would be interested in reading about the before/after processes of the 2005 landslide in Panabaj? We have a translated version out now! Find both books online here: books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di... @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social

Book presentation in June 2024 of the version in Spanish. Photo by Raquel Ribeiro.

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Ixchel Project @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hello @bsky.app ! We are the Ixchel project funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund @ukri.org Expect posts on research activities, including but not limited to volcanology, disaster risk reduction, critical decolonial theory, human rights, and arts-based participative methodologies 🌋

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Yesterday's snowy Edinburgh ❄️

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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

🌋Introducing 'Volcano Cinema: of Eruptions and Other Stories', organised as part of the GCRF-funded 'Ixchel' project. For more information and tickets: cinemaattic.com/volcano-cine...

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

On Friday we presented our book about disaster, reconstruction, and community organisation after the 2005 landslide in Santiago Atitlán. This book was requested by the community leaders for the new generations to know their history and to keep the memories alive. books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

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Desastre, reconstrucción, liderazgo: Sistematización de las experiencias tras el deslave de Panabaj de 2005 | Edinburgh Diamond | Books

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Yesterday's Sunday meeting with the community of La Trinidad, near Fuego Volcano in Guatemala. Our collective book is slowly happening!

An unused school building in front of Fuego Volcano in Guatemala.

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

“They did not mean to kill the children. They meant to. Too many kids got in the way of precisely imprecise one-ton bombs dropped a thousand and one times over the children’s nights.” – Fady Joudah

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

Paper revised and resubmitted! 🥳

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

Argh! Final push to finish paper revisions today 😅. Why do we even need conclusions again? 😂

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Meet a Feminist Geographer! Me! 😃 This is part of the Feminist Geographies Group series.

Meet a Feminist Geographer!
Image of my research interests and social media accounts

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Join us for the next Researching Latin America seminar this Thursday, 23 November from 15:00-16:30 at the University of Edinburgh! I'll be presenting some of the work we're doing in the Ixchel Project at the School of GeoSciences. DM me for more info!

Cover slide for the presentation called "Knowing La Trinidad: Experiences of forced displacement(s) and transient spaces in Guatemala" by Dr Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco.

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