BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;Program on Latin Ame rica and the Caribbean and \;Department of Geography and the Environme nt presentBetween Flood and Drought: Environmental Racism\, The Production of\nSettler Waterscapes\, and Indigenous Water Justice in South America’s ChacoThis talk advances a novel approach to assessing the geographies\nof settler colonialism by wedding insights from Indigenous studies alongside \ncritical physical geography. Settler colonialism is a structure of\nsoci al-spatial relations centered on land dispossession and elimination of\nIn digenous lifeways. While geography matters to settler colonialism\, few\ns tudies examine how settlers use biophysical geographies to colonize and th e\neffects on Indigenous water access. I weave an analysis of historical\n missionary accounts with a political economy of contemporary cattle ranchi ng\nand GIS assessment of water infrastructures to show how settler waters cape\nformation reworks hydro-social relations in the South American Gran Chaco.\nFurther\, the paper shows how settler waterscapes produce vulnerab ility along\nracial lines by limiting Indigenous access to water that subs equently makes\nregularly-occurring flood and drought events malignant\, e ven deadly. I argue\nthat settler colonialism is manifest in spatially dis tinct ways vis-à-vis\ndifferent physical geographies that produces environ mental racism\, showing that\nwater scarcity is socially produced. Based o n long-term field research with\nEnxet and Sanapaná peoples in Paraguay\, the paper contributes to debates on\ncolonial natures\, water justice\, an d Indigenous geographies by using critical\nphysical geography to study th e production of novel bio-social systems and\ntheir implications on justic e.Joel E. Correia\n\nAssistant Professor\, Center for Latin American Studi es\n\nUniversity of FloridaJoel E. Correia is a human geographer whose res earch and teaching focus on the intersections of human rights\, justice\, development\, and environmental change with attention to Indigenous politi cs in Latin America. In collaboration with community partners\, his resear ch seeks to understand how extra-local political\, legal\, and economic pr ocesses—like international Indigenous rights mechanisms\, environmental go vernance schemes\, and global commodity production and exchange—influence livelihoods\, the praxis of rights\, and socio-environmental relations at the “local” level\, and vice versa. Joel draws theoretical and methodologi cal inspiration from political ecology and STS\, critical social theory\, ethnography\, and participatory research. His most recent field-based rese arch projects in the Southern Cone have focused on Indigenous land rights\ , the implementation of Inter-American Court of Human Rights decisions\, e xpanding agrarian frontiers\, political ecologies of territorial struggles \, and the politics of fair trade. Correia’s first book\, \;Disrupting the patrón: Unsettling racial geographies in pursuit of Indigenous enviro nmental justice\, is currently in progress. To date\, his research is publ ished in \;The Journal of Peasant Studies\, Geoforum\, the Journal of Latin American Geography\, Erasmus Law Review \;and other academic jou rnals with several chapters in press for edited volumes by Routledge\, Uni versity Press of Florida\, and Edward Elgar. He also contributes to public news outlets like \;The Conversation \;and has been interviewed f or works on Indigenous human rights and environmental change by NBC\, Mong abay\, World Politics Review\, among others. His new research initiative\, “Frontiers of Environmental Justice: Rupture\, resource rule\, and resist ance” investigates social-ecological transformations taking place across S outh America’s Gran Chaco forest region—a site where rapid deforestation\, new infrastructure projects\, extractivism\, and climate change are creat ing new challenges and opportunities for Indigenous environmental justice. After receiving his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Colorado Bo ulder in August 2017\, Joel completed a Postdoctoral position at the Unive rsity of Arizona (2017-18). He holds an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Arizona and a BA in Geography from Humboldt State Univer sity.This talk is a part of the Geography and the Environment Colloquium S eries. Click here to registerFor more information or to request additional accommodation arrangements\, please contact Havva Karakas Keles\, hkaraka s@syr.edu. DTEND:20211029T203000Z DTSTAMP:20260513T061932Z DTSTART:20211029T190000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Between Flood and Drought: Environmental Racism\, The Production of Settler Waterscapes\, and Indigenous Water Justice in South America’s Cha co UID:RFCALITEM639142355720140133 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;

Program on Latin America and the Caribbean and \;Department of Geography and the Environment present


Between Flood and Drought: Environmental Racism\, The Production of\ nSettler Waterscapes\, and Indigenous Water Justice in South America’s Cha co


This talk advances a novel approach to assess ing the geographies\nof settler colonialism by wedding insights from Indig enous studies alongside\ncritical physical geography. Settler colonialism is a structure of\nsocial-spatial relations centered on land dispossession and elimination of\nIndigenous lifeways. While geography matters to settl er colonialism\, few\nstudies examine how settlers use biophysical geograp hies to colonize and the\neffects on Indigenous water access. I weave an a nalysis of historical\nmissionary accounts with a political economy of con temporary cattle ranching\nand GIS assessment of water infrastructures to show how settler waterscape\nformation reworks hydro-social relations in t he South American Gran Chaco.\nFurther\, the paper shows how settler water scapes produce vulnerability along\nracial lines by limiting Indigenous ac cess to water that subsequently makes\nregularly-occurring flood and droug ht events malignant\, even deadly. I argue\nthat settler colonialism is ma nifest in spatially distinct ways vis-à-vis\ndifferent physical geographie s that produces environmental racism\, showing that\nwater scarcity is soc ially produced. Based on long-term field research with\nEnxet and Sanapaná peoples in Paraguay\, the paper contributes to debates on\ncolonial natur es\, water justice\, and Indigenous geographies by using critical\nphysica l geography to study the production of novel bio-social systems and\ntheir implications on justice.


Joel E. Correia

\n\n

Assistant Professor\, Center for Latin American Studies

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University of Florida


Joel E. Correia is a human geograp her whose research and teaching focus on the intersections of human rights \, justice\, development\, and environmental change with attention to Indi genous politics in Latin America. In collaboration with community partners \, his research seeks to understand how extra-local political\, legal\, an d economic processes—like international Indigenous rights mechanisms\, env ironmental governance schemes\, and global commodity production and exchan ge—influence livelihoods\, the praxis of rights\, and socio-environmental relations at the “local” level\, and vice versa. Joel draws theoretical an d methodological inspiration from political ecology and STS\, critical soc ial theory\, ethnography\, and participatory research. His most recent fie ld-based research projects in the Southern Cone have focused on Indigenous land rights\, the implementation of Inter-American Court of Human Rights decisions\, expanding agrarian frontiers\, political ecologies of territor ial struggles\, and the politics of fair trade. Correia’s first book\,&nbs p\;Disrupting the patrón: Unsettling racial geographies in pursuit of Indigenous environmental justice\, is currently in progress. To date\ , his research is published in \;The Journal of Peasant Studies\, Geoforum\, the Journal of Latin American Geography\, Erasmus Law Review \;and other academic journals with several chapters in press for ed ited volumes by Routledge\, University Press of Florida\, and Edward Elgar . He also contributes to public news outlets like \;The Conversati on \;and has been interviewed for works on Indigenous human right s and environmental change by NBC\, Mongabay\, World Politics Review\, amo ng others. His new research initiative\, “Frontiers of Environmental Justi ce: Rupture\, resource rule\, and resistance” investigates social-ecologic al transformations taking place across South America’s Gran Chaco forest r egion—a site where rapid deforestation\, new infrastructure projects\, ext ractivism\, and climate change are creating new challenges and opportuniti es for Indigenous environmental justice. After receiving his Ph.D. in geog raphy from the University of Colorado Boulder in August 2017\, Joel comple ted a Postdoctoral position at the University of Arizona (2017-18). He hol ds an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Arizona and a BA in Geography from Humboldt State University.


This ta lk is a part of the Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series.


Click here to register


For more information or to request additional accommodation arrangements\, please contact Havva Kara kas Keles\, hkarakas@syr.edu.


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