Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Cuánto tiempo le toma a un proyecto minero iniciar operaciones? En Perú, los legisladores sugiere que las concesiones permanencen “ociosas”, por lo que hay que recortar el tiempo. Las empresas dicen que requieren al menos 40 años. Qué dice la evidencia? 🧵 100
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 18/03/2026#CfP "Transiciones Mineras en América Latina" (P09). Problematizamos narrativas de la transición energética en la región. El panel es parte del Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología Política (Lima, Agosto 2026). Fecha límite: 12 de abril sites.google.com/view/vi-cong...sites.google.comCLEP VI. - Lima - PANELES Y TALLERESLISTA DE LOS PANELES APROBADOS A continuación encontrarán la lista de los PANELES aprobados. Los interesados pueden enviar sus propuestas de ponencia/resúmenes a los siguientes paneles, seleccionando ... 020
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 20/02/2026#CfP Mining Transitions in Latin America: A Special Issue for The Extractive Industries and Society. We are looking for contributions that problematize how energy, sustainability, and post-mining transition frameworks "touch ground" in Latin America. More details: drive.google.com/file/d/1m1Q5...drive.google.comSI Mining Transitions.pdf 022
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Buen episodio de @elhilopodcast.bsky.social. Generar industrias culturales y representación van de la mano - en los créditos de “El agente secreto” se menciona el no. de empleos que la película generó. Acá algunos streaming gratuitos de cine latinoamericano 🧵 (sí, Hollywood es muy aburrido) 132
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Just as China’s emissions fall, the US rolls back the endangerment finding. Global climate leadership is clearly changing. Countries around the world will be torn between fossil business as usual or renewables-led industrialization. Maybe a mix? Either way, adaptation investment is now the priority. 120
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 12/02/2026As the US suffocates Cuba’s energy supply, the island bets on accelerating its energy transition. Already 38% of its energy matrix relies on solar, with ambitious plans to expand coverage ASAP. mronline.org/2026/02/09/c...mronline.orgCuba responds to U.S. oil blockade with energy self-sufficiency plan - MR OnlinePresident Diaz-Canel says no fuel has reached his country since December. 100
Reposted by Gisselle Vila BenitesSara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social · 08/02/2026CFP due Feb 15 for conference: (De)colonial Solidarities: Whiteness, Colonialism, and the Politics of Allyship 27-28 August 2026 in Turku Finland or online. sites.utu.fi/whisol/news/...sites.utu.fiCall for Papers: (De)colonial Solidarities Symposium | whisolCALL FOR PAPERS (De)colonial Solidarities: Whiteness, Colonialism, and the Politics of Allyship 27-28 August 2026 University of Turku, Finland From Indigeno ... 0188
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Nelson Manrique fue jurado de mi tesis de licenciatura. Me alentó siempre a pensar creativamente y a tener confianza en mí talento. Tuvo la gentileza de dedicar una de sus columnas de opinión en La República a mi trabajo. Vuelta alto, maestro. Vives en nosotrxs 🕊️ 011
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 29/12/2025New publication! In this book chapter I examine why indigenous communities embed mining in their territorial projects & how state responses enhance indigenous vulnerability before (legal and illegal) mining. Published with @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181831/ 050
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 29/11/2025The sum of the parts or something more than the sum of the parts? Corning Museum of Glass left me with lost of questions about the art/ science of lenses. Sand mining, glass industry and micro/macro sensing entangled at the same building. Hands down, one of the best museums I’ve visited in the US. 030
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Fieldwork based methods, including direct observation, are increasingly displaced as data science and geospatial analysis become default methodologies. Trends identified by colleagues in ecology bear relevance for the environmental social sciences www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...cell.comExtinction of experience among ecologistsFieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the e... 050
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 12/11/2025If you are in New Orleans and are interested in Peruvian politics, join me this Friday at @tulaneu.bsky.social Stone Center. I’ll talk about informal mining governance and resource communalism -mining embeddedness in campesino territorial projects stonecenter.tulane.edu/events/chall...stonecenter.tulane.eduChallenges to Peruvian Democracy: Democratic Backsliding and ResilienceThe Roger Thayer Stone Center For Latin American Studies News 050
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 31/10/2025If you are at Syracuse tomorrow, join me at @maxwellsu.bsky.social Geography Colloquium. My talk will dive into alluvial gold mining in the Amazon, emerging aquatic environments, mining formalization, and possibilities for just post-mining landscape recovery www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2025/...maxwell.syr.eduMineral Ecologies: Formalization, Alluvial Mining and Territorial Struggles in Latin AmericaGisselle Vila Benites examines community engagement with small-scale alluvial mining in tropical regions. 040
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 26/10/2025We know the academic publishing system is broken but this is the first time I read a major publishing outlet confirm the diagnosis. Also: open access is the way forward, but how? 030
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Mañana hablaré sobre la importancia del la recuperación de paisajes post-minado en la regulación de la minería informal en el Perú + visiones de pueblos indígenas. El evento es organizado por la Clínica Jurídica de la Universidad del Pacífico. #Sanar #RemediaciónAmbiental #RestauraciónEcológica 020
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Happy to share my personal website: sites.google.com/view/giviben/ Check it out for updates and general information spanning extractives, informal mining, clean-ups, remediation, and indigenous governance in Latin Americasites.google.comDr. Gisselle Vila BenitesWelcome 010
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Entrevista en “Pequeñas Islas” / @ocramo.bsky.social en donde discutí los retos de la formalización minera en el Perú. Enfaticé que es importante reconocer la profunda heterogeneidad del sector (ejm. Mineria aluvial vs subterránea) y un enfoque de desarrollo territorial. youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comPequeñas Islas - YouTubeEl dominical de La Encerrona 011
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 29/05/2025As an early career scholar in the job market, and with a paper seven months under review, I can only echo this message: www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comDear editors, your publication delays are damaging our careersChia-Hsuan Hsu waited 18 months before chasing an editor for a decision on a paper. The answer surprised him. 120
Reposted by Gisselle Vila BenitesFiona Dove @fdove.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Nice opportunity for young researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America/Caribbean....Challenges and prospects for ‘green’ industrial policy in the Global South www.tni.org/en/open-call...tni.orgChallenges and prospects for ‘green’ industrial policy in the Global South | Transnational InstituteThe Global Green Industrial Policy Lab invites young researchers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to submit original research on just, ecological industrial policy grounded in the r... 032
Reposted by Gisselle Vila BenitesWen (Women's Environmental Network) @wen-uk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025We’re hiring! 🌿 Join Wen as a Policy Campaigner and help us shape UK chemicals regulation through a feminist lens. 🗓️ Deadline: 3rd June, 5pm 📍 Remote/Hybrid | 3 days/week 💰 £38,766 pro rata Care about justice, health & environment? This is for you. 🔗 Apply now: www.wen.org.uk/jobs-volunte... 033
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 24/03/2025If you’re at #AAG2025 join us tomorrow at the feminist political ecologies of environmental repair panel. We’ll talk about what it entails caring for and repairing relationships with nature. I’ll share my work in progress concerning indigenous perspectives & after-mining transitions in the Amazon. 083
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 30/01/2025What role does Latin America play in critical minerals? My commentary for the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin American Advisor highlights supply countries efforts to balance domestic industrial policies with geopolitical concerns thedialogue.org/latin-americ... 040
Reposted by Gisselle Vila BenitesVanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Call for applications: 2025 #Myanmar Emerging Scholars and Young Leaders Workshop held at York University forms.gle/T7HGV54dv68d...forms.gle 053
Reposted by Gisselle Vila Benitesbalayannis.bsky.social @balayannis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025CFP! At the Nordic STS conference this June in Stockholm @emmapdc.bsky.social & I are organising "Towards just pollution interventions: public experiments beyond the lab" We welcome abstracts from any discipline or practice. Deadline March 1. Reach out for questions www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abs... 052
Reposted by Gisselle Vila BenitesEADI @eadi.bsky.social · 06/01/2025🎧 Liberation Theology in Latin America Being back from our break, we're starting the year with a new season of our "Hierarchies of Development" Podcast, episode 1 being just released! 🎤 with @ingridhk.bsky.social & Basile Boulay open.spotify.com/episode/2ifg...open.spotify.comS3 Ep1 Liberation theology in Latin AmericaHierarchies of Development · Episode 064
Reposted by Gisselle Vila Benitesmontse pérez-castro @mpcp.bsky.social · 06/01/2025We chatted about fieldwork in supply chains, differences between more or less charismatic commodities, the relations between language, value and labor, secrecy/transparency, how we attach meaning to our jobs (or not!), and the semiotic and material work of translation econanthro.org/podcasts/is-...econanthro.orgIs Talk Cheap? Making Palm Oil ‘Sustainable’: A conversation with Montserrat Perez Castro - Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA)In this episode, Kate and Ariana catch up with Montserrat Pérez Castro in the midst of her fieldwork in Mexico. Transnational food companies and palm oil 072
Reposted by Gisselle Vila BenitesFuture Natures @futurenatures.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Looking for a holiday listen? Our podcast is a growing archive of conversations about shared life, resistance to enclosures, and diverse ways of relating to ‘nature’, places and each other. futurenatures.org/podcastfuturenatures.orgFuture Natures podcast - Future NaturesThe Future Natures podcast is a series of conversations about nature, commons and enclosures with people involved in action, research and activism. Listen You can listen and subscribe to the podcast o... 0104
Reposted by Gisselle Vila BenitesAmazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 24/12/2024🌊 An #oilspill on the Peruvian coast has polluted 10,000+ m² of ocean and 4 beaches. Marine life is coated in crude oil, devastating fishing & tourism. Oil company Petroperú’s negligence is under fire as communities demand accountability and justice. amazonwatch.org/news/2024/12...amazonwatch.orgPetroperú Minimizes Oil Spill in Piura: Damage Reported in 10 Thousand Square Meters of Sea and Four Beaches | Amazon WatchAn oil spill resulting from an underwater terminal of Petroperú’s Talara Refinery has spread to four beaches in Lobitos on the northern coast of Peru, affecting approximately 10,000 cubic meters of th... 078
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Estoy contenta de acompañar a las y los jóvenes becarios del Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria (SEPIA) en sus proyectos de investigación. Este 2025 además realizaré la ponencia de balance sobre economías informales e ilegales en el Perú rural. 010
Reposted by Gisselle Vila BenitesPOLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social · 08/12/2024The new political ecology starter pack is here go.bsky.app/Kr7iPwr 35223
Reposted by Gisselle Vila BenitesTransnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 14/12/2024The lands of Indigenous and peasant communities in Colombia and Myanmar are being destroyed for extracting 'green' energy resources. How can we move beyond extractivism and create truly equitable, community-led solutions? www.tni.org/en/article/m... 0117
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Hello world. Human-Environment Geographer here. My themes are #PoliticalEcology #DevelopmentGeography #AgrarianStudies #IndigenousPeople #NaturalResourceGovernance #InformalMining #LatinAmerica #ActionResearch #ParticipatoryMethods 040
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Happy to contribute to the Transnational Institute’s “Mining and Just Transitions” conversation series. I was interviewed on informal mining and ethnic communities in the Andes: www.tni.org/en/article/a... #IndigenousPeoples #BlackCommunities #PoliticalEcologytni.org 053