Publications

With BHL

“…the findings explained throughout this blog post reveal the important need for BHL to strengthen bonds with institutions in the Global South, not only to achieve a truly global repository but to diversify representation, a particularly pressing matter in topics related to colonial and (neo)imperial issues, such as the case of Panama. The overwhelming predominance of US-centric narratives and perspectives in the knowledge production about Panama and her biodiversity in BHL’s catalogue reveals the urge to diversify, decentralize, and decolonize bio-diverse epistemologies.”

From “The Geopolitics of Metadata”

About BHL

“…the practices of representation and participation that occur at different levels of BHL determine who can meaningfully engage with and within biodiversity through its platform. Thus, BHL engages in systems of inclusion and exclusion heavily informed by power relationships, including issues of linguistic injustice and misrepresentation.”

From “Diversifying Digital Biodiversity Knowledge”

Other publications

“…la relación con el tigre se presenta como una inversión del tópico de la cacería: el tigre de Borges no es el primero, sino el último; no es iniciación, sino consolidación de una relación que se ha gestado por mucho tiempo. Si el primer tigre borgiano era o bien una representación o bien un objeto de la mirada humana en el zoológico, el encuentro entre Borges y su último tigre permite una afección mutua, una transformación de ambos sujetos mediante el contacto…”

From “Tigres borgianos”