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Geography Colloquium: Between flood and drought – How the production of new waterscapes produces environmental racism in South America’s Chaco

Speaker: Dr. Joel Correia

Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida

Thursday, March 4, 2021

2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8)

Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube

University of Florida

All are welcome to attend.

Dr. Joel Correia is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He is a human geographer whose research and teaching focus on the intersections of human rights, justice, development, and environmental change with attention to Indigenous politics in Latin America. Dr. Correia conducts field-based research in collaboration with community partners, employing a suite of mixed-methods from interviews and participatory mapping to household surveys and ethnographic writing. His current book project Disrupting the patrón: Unsettling racial geographies in pursuit of Indigenous environmental justice explores such topics in the context of Paraguay’s rapidly changing Chaco region.

For more information, email Dr. Tim Fik at fik@ufl.edu