Book Chapter by Cecilia G. Salinas
Climate, Capitalism and Communities An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating, 2019
In their chapter on climate mitigation regimes and their consequences for people living in forest... more In their chapter on climate mitigation regimes and their consequences for people living in forests in the global South, Wilhite and Salinas argue that the rhetorical move from capitalism to green capitalism does not radically change the relationship between capital and nature. On the contrary, the practices of global climate mitigation efforts, such as the UN REDD programme, are grounded in the same economic principles that led to the depletion of forests around the world in the first place. Policy designers present the market as the best way to regulate environmental degradation, aiming to make biodiversity conservation compatible with development. However, sustainability and biodiversity are powerful, his- torically produced discourses that are linked to the modern ideology of progress and development.
The book centres around artist, art teacher and Gnostic priest, Jan Valentin Saether.
A diadem o... more The book centres around artist, art teacher and Gnostic priest, Jan Valentin Saether.
A diadem of articles, poetry and art works, set in a arc of life from the early days as an artist in Oslo in the '60s, via twenty years in Los Angeles where he started several studio schools, the Venice Painting and Sculpture Studio, and Bruchion Center for Art and Gnosis, as well as his return to and work in Oslo from the mid '90s on. A unique picture of an artistic milieu.
Book by Cecilia G. Salinas
The book investigates everyday life in Fray Bentos, a working town in a rural area where meat pac... more The book investigates everyday life in Fray Bentos, a working town in a rural area where meat packing for a long time was the core industry. The traditional meatpacking industry has been in decline, but for some time a foreign pulp mill appeared to offer new working opportunities. However, in comparison with the old “socially thick” meatpacking industry with dense employment and a huge impact on employment, the new pulp industry was “socially thin”. I investigate everyday life in Fray Bentos and how the initial euphoria associated with renewed industrial modernity soured. Yet she also explores short-lasting glimmers of hope and collective agency in relation to a local carnival. Based on a close fieldwork and her anthropological gaze Salinas has developed an innovative approach to the contradictions of neoliberal everyday life.
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The book Wisftul hope: Local reponses to Neo-Liberal Politics. Uruguay and the Pulp Industry examines the socioeconomic effects of the installation of a Finnish pulp mil in a rural locality in Uruguay. In the wake of neo-liberal reform in industrial policies, the forestry and pulp industry acquired a central role for the economic growth in Uruguay. Salinas studies the effect of the industry in a rural community focusing on the local carnaval as a window to socioeconomic processes and how people themselves understand these processes. Narratives of the past are examined so as to understand how people remember their past and imagine their future. The term ‘hope’ is a significant concept in the analysis and conveys in an excellent way how people experience, understand and relate to ongoing socieconomic processes and policies. Salinas discusses their notion of progress and suggests that the power of the idea of progress lies in that i creates hope in a socioeconomic situation where the lack of long term employement opportunities otherwise eliminates all sens of positive expectations. The book ends with at discussion of two differnt models of social development that have been dominant at different periods of time: 1) a political strategyof a strong state, which regulates enterprises of foreign investements, securing benefits for the population and 2) the currently applied model of development promoting an enclave extraction economy where the benefits concentrate in smaller groups with less benefit for local people in terms of employment and long-term social investment.
Published Article by Cecilia G. Salinas
This paper argues that an artistic approach can enhance the power of ethnographic research by slo... more This paper argues that an artistic approach can enhance the power of ethnographic research by slowing down reasoning, processing emotions and complying with the ethics of representation. The author reflects on her experiences during fieldwork in Norway among minoritized Norwegians working in the art and cultural sector, and the intense emotions and bodily reactions she experienced while listening to painful stories of trauma. She describes how this emotional intensity led her to start drawing images, and later to create a traveling exhibition.
In Focus Art, 2020
How an artistic method can challenge and enrich our understandings of vision and knowledge
Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
Drawing on my personal story and experiences from ethnographic fieldwork among the Mbya-Guaraní ... more Drawing on my personal story and experiences from ethnographic fieldwork among the Mbya-Guaraní of Northern Argentina, this article provides a critical perspective on the coloniality of modern schooling. I illustrate the workings and effects of what I call a ped- agogy of detachment, and argue for decolonial options to this pedagogy. The article starts from my personal history as a minoritized pupil in Argentina, and bring in cases from my experiences with the Norwegian school system as an immigrant, followed by vignettes of my ethnographic work in Northern Argentina. These examples aim to show the geopolit- ical scope of the detrimental impact of a colonial pedagogy that creates a disassociation and disconnection of the pupil with their bodily experience, origins and socio-natural en- vironment. I argue that a starting point towards the replacement of the pedagogy of detachment is working for integration, dialogue, visibilization, positionality and open-ended diversity, and provide some suggestions on how to gesture towards a pedagogy otherwise.
Revista del Museo de Antropología , 2019
The global climate initiative should be based on an understanding of past and present experience... more The global climate initiative should be based on an understanding of past and present experiences, as well as take into consideration the expectations of a multitude of actors. Today, however, we see that the current climate initiative is dominated by a late-capitalistic production logic. Climate visions are largely created by a handful of actors based on narrow imaginations of the world and disconnected from important past experiences. At the same time, we see that these visions are presented as innovative and outstanding, although this is not necessarily the case. Anthropology is well-equipped to produce good analyses of today’s climate response. The ability of the discipline to foreground important contexts by linking the global with site-specific realities, and to show diversity, can make an important contribution to analyses of today’s climate change mitigation efforts. By setting the out- come of previous visions and interventions against the new imaginations, we can visualise what is at stake, for whom, and how old rhetoric and strategy appears in new disguise.
I denne artikkelen beskriver vi hvordan det finske multinasjonale skogindustriselskapet UPM (før ... more I denne artikkelen beskriver vi hvordan det finske multinasjonale skogindustriselskapet UPM (før Botnia) samhandler med vertskapsbyen Fray Bentos i Uruguay. Samhandling med lokalsamfunn spiller en viktig rolle for multinasjonale selskaper. Vi argumenterer for at lokalsamfunns historie, identitet og fortid er svært viktig for kvaliteten på samhandlingen, og følgelig noe multinasjonale selskaper bør utvikle en forståelse for og anerkjennelse av. Vi tar derfor til orde for at lokalsamfunn, i motsetning til hva som er vanlig praksis, anses som en primær og helt sentral «stakeholder». Lokalsamfunnets unike historie og identitet bør derfor anerkjennes og anvendes som en ressurs for utvikling av en omforent fremtid for både lokalsamfunn og multinasjonalt selskap. Følgelig vil en flerdimensjonal forståelse av tid, dvs. at erfaringer og hendelser i fortiden er tett koblet sammen med aspirasjoner for fremtiden, være en viktig implikasjon for multinasjonale selskapers praktiske samfunnsansvar og for fremtidig forskning og utvikling av fagfeltet bedrifters samfunnsansvar.
In this article I discuss the relationship between neoliberal economic reforms and the concept of... more In this article I discuss the relationship between neoliberal economic reforms and the concept of hope in the context of the pulp industry in Uruguay. The article is based on an empirical study of the installation of a Finnish pulp mill in a rural town in Uruguay. I will argue for the importance of the concept of hope as an analytical tool in the study of capitalism. I will stress that hope has a narrative structure, thus binding the current together with past experiences and expectations of the future.
Doctoral dissertation by Cecilia G. Salinas
Papers by Cecilia G. Salinas
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift, 2017
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift, 2013
El presente articulo visibiliza los mecanismos inadvertidos a los que estaba sujeta la implementa... more El presente articulo visibiliza los mecanismos inadvertidos a los que estaba sujeta la implementacion de las politicas territoriales en la reserva de biosfera Yaboti, en la provincia de Misiones. Argumentare que dichos mecanismos inadvertidos emergen cuando aplicamos una perspectiva temporal. Enfocandome en la situacion de la tierra de una comunidad indigena Mbya, sostengo que el reconocimiento de sus derechos te-rritoriales fue puesto entre parentesis, es decir suspendidos por tiempo indeterminado en el contexto de estas politicas territoriales. En el caso presentado, la falta de titula-rizacion era parte de una situacion ambivalente en la cual los derechos territoriales de los indigenas no habian sido reconocidos, pero tampoco se les habia sido negado reco-nocimiento. Explorare dicha suspension de la titularizacion en relacion a la atribucion de tiempos distintos a los indigenas que los atribuidos a la gente no-indigena. Planteo que el pasado y el presente de los indigenas es terg...
Climate, Capitalism and Communities, 2019
In their chapter on climate mitigation regimes and their consequences for people living in forest... more In their chapter on climate mitigation regimes and their consequences for people living in forests in the global South, Wilhite and Salinas argue that the rhetorical move from capitalism to green capitalism does not radically change the relationship between capital and nature. On the contrary, the practices of global climate mitigation efforts, such as the UN REDD programme, are grounded in the same economic principles that led to the depletion of forests around the world in the first place. Policy designers present the market as the best way to regulate environmental degradation, aiming to make biodiversity conservation compatible with development. However, sustainability and biodiversity are powerful, his- torically produced discourses that are linked to the modern ideology of progress and development.
Revista del Museo de Antropología, 2019
Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE), 2020
This article deals with a critical perspective on modern schooling based on my own experience as ... more This article deals with a critical perspective on modern schooling based on my own experience as a child and young adult. I illustrate the effects of what I call a pedagogic of detachment and argue for a decolonial option of the modern school system. I will start with my personal history as a minority pupil in Argentina and will also use cases from my experiences as an immigrant in the Norwegian school system and from my ethnographic work among the Mbya-Guaraní in Northern Argentina.
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Book Chapter by Cecilia G. Salinas
A diadem of articles, poetry and art works, set in a arc of life from the early days as an artist in Oslo in the '60s, via twenty years in Los Angeles where he started several studio schools, the Venice Painting and Sculpture Studio, and Bruchion Center for Art and Gnosis, as well as his return to and work in Oslo from the mid '90s on. A unique picture of an artistic milieu.
Book by Cecilia G. Salinas
Anonymous reviewer:
The book Wisftul hope: Local reponses to Neo-Liberal Politics. Uruguay and the Pulp Industry examines the socioeconomic effects of the installation of a Finnish pulp mil in a rural locality in Uruguay. In the wake of neo-liberal reform in industrial policies, the forestry and pulp industry acquired a central role for the economic growth in Uruguay. Salinas studies the effect of the industry in a rural community focusing on the local carnaval as a window to socioeconomic processes and how people themselves understand these processes. Narratives of the past are examined so as to understand how people remember their past and imagine their future. The term ‘hope’ is a significant concept in the analysis and conveys in an excellent way how people experience, understand and relate to ongoing socieconomic processes and policies. Salinas discusses their notion of progress and suggests that the power of the idea of progress lies in that i creates hope in a socioeconomic situation where the lack of long term employement opportunities otherwise eliminates all sens of positive expectations. The book ends with at discussion of two differnt models of social development that have been dominant at different periods of time: 1) a political strategyof a strong state, which regulates enterprises of foreign investements, securing benefits for the population and 2) the currently applied model of development promoting an enclave extraction economy where the benefits concentrate in smaller groups with less benefit for local people in terms of employment and long-term social investment.
Published Article by Cecilia G. Salinas
Doctoral dissertation by Cecilia G. Salinas
Papers by Cecilia G. Salinas
A diadem of articles, poetry and art works, set in a arc of life from the early days as an artist in Oslo in the '60s, via twenty years in Los Angeles where he started several studio schools, the Venice Painting and Sculpture Studio, and Bruchion Center for Art and Gnosis, as well as his return to and work in Oslo from the mid '90s on. A unique picture of an artistic milieu.
Anonymous reviewer:
The book Wisftul hope: Local reponses to Neo-Liberal Politics. Uruguay and the Pulp Industry examines the socioeconomic effects of the installation of a Finnish pulp mil in a rural locality in Uruguay. In the wake of neo-liberal reform in industrial policies, the forestry and pulp industry acquired a central role for the economic growth in Uruguay. Salinas studies the effect of the industry in a rural community focusing on the local carnaval as a window to socioeconomic processes and how people themselves understand these processes. Narratives of the past are examined so as to understand how people remember their past and imagine their future. The term ‘hope’ is a significant concept in the analysis and conveys in an excellent way how people experience, understand and relate to ongoing socieconomic processes and policies. Salinas discusses their notion of progress and suggests that the power of the idea of progress lies in that i creates hope in a socioeconomic situation where the lack of long term employement opportunities otherwise eliminates all sens of positive expectations. The book ends with at discussion of two differnt models of social development that have been dominant at different periods of time: 1) a political strategyof a strong state, which regulates enterprises of foreign investements, securing benefits for the population and 2) the currently applied model of development promoting an enclave extraction economy where the benefits concentrate in smaller groups with less benefit for local people in terms of employment and long-term social investment.
los conflictos y desafíos que enfrentan los pueblos indígenas ante el avance y consolidación del modelo neoextractivo. Nos interesa no solo pensar las resistencias abiertas y cotidianas que surgen, por ejemplo, en torno a la tierra y al uso de los recursos naturales, sino también indagar sobre las formas en que estas comunidades logran maniobrar y negociar a fin de minimizar los efectos negativos de este modelo. Centrarse en las interacciones críticas entre las comunidades indígenas, las empresas y los estados que encabezan el extractivismo, puede revelar una imagen más matizada, pero detallada y precisa de las tensiones económicas, políticas y culturales actuales en América Latina.