New article on Post-Anthropocentric Cinema and Environmental Histories in Latin America
The article was developed at the library of the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies and at the offices at ROMKLASS when Castro and Selgas held the Serie the Cine Latinoamericano just before the outbreak of the pandemics.
The article “Sites of Situated Hope: Amazonian Rhythms, Unruly Caribbean Plants, and Post-Anthropocentric Gazes in Contemporary Latin American Cinema” co-authored by Azucena Castro and Gianfranco Selgas, who obtained their PhDs at our institution has just been published at the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (OPEN ACCESS). The article examines how the audiovisual productions Farmacopea (2013) by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (Puerto Rico) and Río Verde (2017) by Diego and Álvaro Sarmiento (Peru) address human-nature assemblages by articulating a post-anthropocentric gaze that explores the disastrous environmental histories of the tropical plantation in the Caribbean and the extractive exploitation of the Peruvian-Amazon jungle.
The article was developed at the library of the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies and at the offices at ROMKLASS when Castro and Selgas held the Serie the Cine Latinoamericano just before the outbreak of the pandemics.
Azucena Castro is a Swedish Research Council postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University and at the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. She obtained her PhD in Romance Studies with a specialization in Spanish - Latin American Literature and Culture- at the Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University in 2020.
Gianfranco Selgas is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of European Languages, Culture and Society – Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry, University College London. He obtained his PhD in Romance Studies with a specialization in Spanish -Latin American Literature and Culture- at the Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University in 2022
Last updated: January 25, 2023
Source: Department of Romance Studies and Classics