Environmental Justice Working Group Co-Director Quoted in the Financial Times
Professor Vicky Murrillo discussed recent developments in Argentinian politics.
Victoria Murrillo, Environmental Justice working group co-director, was quoted in the Financial Times article, Argentina’s political double act moves on to the next challenge by Benedict Mander. The article was discussed Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández and current Vice President/ Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and their struggle to manage the Argentine debt, recession, inflation and negotiations with the IMF.
Vicky Murillo Interviewed on CNN en Español
The Environmental Justice working group co-director discusses the protests following the death of George Floyd and President Trump's response.
Vicky Murillo, co-director of the Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean and Director of Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), discussed her views on the recent protests that followed the death of George Floyd as well as President Donald Trump’s response. Professor Murillo also addressed the country’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic and how all of this will affect the presidential election.
To view the interview click here.
Environmental Justice Working Group Takes Part in Year of Water Exhibition
The exhibition, located on the 7th floor of Dodge Hall, is now on display for the next two weeks.
The Environmental Justice, Belief Systems and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group, in collaboration with the Columbia Music & Arts Library, launched a new exhibition titled “Year of Water: The Amazon and Its Tributaries.” Highly focused, it presents topics related to the Amazon River, including the music of Philip Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia, the Yanomami culture in the work of shaman Davi Kopenawa, the dance of the Lia Rodrigues troupe, the photography of Claudia Andujar, as well as conceptual topics (buen vivir, extractivism, among others). The exhibition was curated by Elizabeth Davis, with additional input and technical assistance from Emily Lavins and Nick Patterson.
The working group has taken part in the Year of Water celebration through its Water, Sound, and Indigenous Film series with two events this year. The film series focuses on indigenous film productions that have engaged with local environmental struggles between indigenous communities and transnational agribusinesses, hydroelectric projects, mining corporations, systematic food injustice, local entanglements in drug wars, and localized armed conflicts. It seeks to highlight the unique, radical aesthetics and sounds we find in these documentaries through the influence of indigenous experience and understanding of sustenance, environment, nature, and conservation.
The exhibition is now on display at the Music & Arts Library, located on the 7th floor Dodge Hall.
To read more about the upcoming Water, Sound, and Indigenous Film series events, click here and here.
Vicky Murillo’s Op-ed Featured in The New York Times
The article was published in late November of 2019, less than a month after the “resignation” of Evo Morales.
Vicky Murillo, political scientist and co-director of the CSSD working group Environmental Justice, co-authored an op-ed, “The Coup Temptation in Latin America,” which was featured in The New York Times. Her piece is a response to the aftermath of the ouster of Bolivia’s former president, Evo Morales, and argues that coups against elected governments - even populist governments with authoritarian tendencies - almost always shift countries in the less democratic directions.
For the full op-ed, read here.
Vicky Murillo Interviews Journalist Daniel Alarcon for Unpacking Latin America Podcast
This is the second episode of the monthly podcast, released on November 11.
Vicky Murillo, professor of Political Science and International Affairs and director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference’s (CSSD) working group Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean, interviews professor and journalist, Daniel Alarcón. Alarcon shares stories about his Spanish radio program and the type of Latin American stories he's working on and more in this episode.
The interview can be found on the podcast Unpacking Latin America, hosted by Vicky Murillo, discussing major themes around Latin American history, culture, and politics.
Find the full podcast interview here.
For more on the Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group visit their project page.
Vicky Murillo is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Columbia University. Her work focuses on distributive politics, electoral behavior, institutional weakness, Latin American politics, agricultural and conservation policies.
Daniel Alarcon is a professor of Broadcast Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the creator of RADIO AMBULANTE, an award-winning Spanish-language podcast on NPR. He has also written for Harpers, The New York Magazine,The New Yorker and Etiqueta Negra and published two novels: Lost City Radio and At Night We Walk in Circles.
Vicky Murillo Featured in the New York Times
The article is entitled “In Argentina Elections, Leftists Savor Victory over Incumbent.”
Vicky Murillo, co-director of the Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Carribean working group and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Columbia University, was featured in a New York Times article analyzing the results of Argentina’s recent elections. In it, she shared her thoughts regarding the political calculations of former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who recently ran for office as vice-president with Alberto Fernández at the top of the ticket.
Read the full article here.
Columbia Spectator Covers “Ushui” Film Screening
The screening was part of a two-day event put on by the Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group.
On Thursday October 10 and Friday October 11, the Environmental Justice working group hosted an event showcasing Ushui, a documentary about women shamans from the indigenous Colombian culture the Wiwa. The event, Water, Sound, and Indigenous Film: Ushui, invited the director of the film, as well as film historians, critics, curators, and academics, for a Q&A after the film, and a workshop the following day.
The film’s director Rafael Mojica Gil grew up practicing Wiwa customs, as did another event participant, film historian José Gregorio Mojica Gil. The film is meant as an archive of sorts, created to preserve Wiwa culture for the future.
Read the thoughtful piece in the Spectator here, featuring many direct quotes from the director and event participants.
Vicky Murillo Interviews Ana Ochoa for Latin America @ Columbia Podcast
Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group co-directors discuss major themes around Latin American history, culture, and politics.
Vicky Murillo, professor of Political Science and International Affairs interviewed fellow Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group co-director Professor and Chair of the Department of Music, Ana Ochoa. The interview can be found on the new podcast Latin @ Columbia, hosted by Vicky Murillo, discussing major themes around Latin American history, culture, and politics.
Find the full podcast interview here.
For more on the Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group visit their project page.
Vicky Murillo is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Columbia University. Her work focuses on distributive politics, electoral behavior, institutional weakness, Latin American politics, agricultural and conservation policies.
Dr. Ana Ochoa is an ethnomusicologist in the departments of Music and Anthropology at Columbia University. She writes on music and cultural policy, forced silence and armed conflict, and genealogies of listening and sound in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her current projects explore the bioacoustics of life and death in colonial histories of the Americas.