THE DEATH OF NATURE. WOMEN, ECOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION CAROLYN MERCHANT. CIUDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BUENOS AIRES, SIGLO XXI, 2023, 400 PÁGINAS

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Published: Dec 30, 2023
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women, nature, scientific revolution, ecofeminism

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Carina Jofré
Regional Institute of Planning and Habitat, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, National University of San Juan, National University of La Rioja
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8238-1094

Abstract

The death of nature. Women, ecology and the Scientific Revolution is a classic work in the history of environmental philosophy and ecofeminism. This recent edition launched in June 2023 by Siglo XXI Editores Argentina, is part of the series Other possible futures, by Maristella Svampa, renowned Argentine sociologist and feminist. The first version of the book was published in English in San Francisco (California) in 1980, with the title The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. It was the first published and most successful book by Carolyn Merchant, currently professor emeritus of history, philosophy, and environmental ethics at the University of California, Berkeley. I wonder what new readers this work originally written forty years ago from the United States will find? What new relationships will emerge from this meeting?

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Jofré, C. (2023). THE DEATH OF NATURE. WOMEN, ECOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION. Memorias Disidentes. Revista De Estudios críticos Del Patrimonio, Archivos Y Memorias, 1(1), 275-284. Retrieved from http://ojs.unsj.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/Mdis/article/view/lamuertedelanaturaleza
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Author Biography

Carina Jofré, Regional Institute of Planning and Habitat, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, National University of San Juan, National University of La Rioja

Warpe activist, daughter of the Warpe Community of the Kuyum Territory, Warpe People, is a member of the Plurinational Network of Anti-Extractivist Feminists of the South. She has a PhD in Human Sciences with a mention in Social and Cultural Studies, and a degree in Archeology from the National University of Catamarca. She completed postgraduate studies at CODESRIA (Senegal), postdoctoral studies at the University of Cauca and at the Autonomous Intercultural Indigenous University (UAIIN) of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC), in Colombia. She currently works as an Adjunct Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) with a workplace at the Regional Institute of Planning and Habitat (IRPHA) of the National University of San Juan. She is a regular Professor in charge of the Chair of Theory and Methodology of Archaeological Research, and the Chair of Archaeological Impact and Heritage, in the History Course of the National University of La Rioja. She is a founding member of the Center for Studies and Research in Anthropology and Archeology (CEIAA), of the Information and Discussion Network on Archeology and Heritage (RIDAP) and of the Feminist Collective RIDAP. Since 2011 she has been delegated by the Warpe Community of the Cuyum Territory to carry out the demands for restitution of human bodies presented to the National University of San Juan, she was also one of the promoters of the creation of the Indigenous Advisory Council of the same - my university. Since 2014, she has served as an ad honorem expert in cases related to crimes against humanity committed during the last Argentine dictatorship. He currently directs research and university extension projects related to ethnographies of heritage processes, free prior and informed consultation (ILO Convention 169) for Indigenous Peoples in territories advanced by large-scale mining, and projects on archives and protocols for the decolonization of practices of institutionalized violence and re-dignification of bodies of missing ancestors and relatives. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Memorias Disidentes: Journal of Critical Heritage Studies, Archives and Memories.

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