Gisselle Vila Benites
@giviben.bsky.social
Atkinson Postdoc at Cornell Global Development. Researching informal mining governance and community-centered landscape recovery in the Amazon 🌴
cals.cornell.edu/people/gisselle-vila-benites
cals.cornell.edu/people/gisselle-vila-benites
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Hello world. Human-Environment Geographer here. My themes are #PoliticalEcology #DevelopmentGeography #AgrarianStudies #IndigenousPeople #NaturalResourceGovernance #InformalMining #LatinAmerica #ActionResearch #ParticipatoryMethods
The sum of the parts or something more than the sum of the parts? Corning Museum of Glass left me with lost of questions about the art/ science of lenses. Sand mining, glass industry and micro/macro sensing entangled at the same building. Hands down, one of the best museums I’ve visited in the US.
November 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The sum of the parts or something more than the sum of the parts? Corning Museum of Glass left me with lost of questions about the art/ science of lenses. Sand mining, glass industry and micro/macro sensing entangled at the same building. Hands down, one of the best museums I’ve visited in the US.
Fieldwork based methods, including direct observation, are increasingly displaced as data science and geospatial analysis become default methodologies. Trends identified by colleagues in ecology bear relevance for the environmental social sciences www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are
progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct
field experience within the e...
www.cell.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Fieldwork based methods, including direct observation, are increasingly displaced as data science and geospatial analysis become default methodologies. Trends identified by colleagues in ecology bear relevance for the environmental social sciences www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
If you are in New Orleans and are interested in Peruvian politics, join me this Friday at @tulaneu.bsky.social Stone Center. I’ll talk about informal mining governance and resource communalism -mining embeddedness in campesino territorial projects stonecenter.tulane.edu/events/chall...
Challenges to Peruvian Democracy: Democratic Backsliding and Resilience
The Roger Thayer Stone Center For Latin American Studies News
stonecenter.tulane.edu
November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If you are in New Orleans and are interested in Peruvian politics, join me this Friday at @tulaneu.bsky.social Stone Center. I’ll talk about informal mining governance and resource communalism -mining embeddedness in campesino territorial projects stonecenter.tulane.edu/events/chall...
If you are at Syracuse tomorrow, join me at @maxwellsu.bsky.social Geography Colloquium. My talk will dive into alluvial gold mining in the Amazon, emerging aquatic environments, mining formalization, and possibilities for just post-mining landscape recovery
www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2025/...
www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2025/...
Mineral Ecologies: Formalization, Alluvial Mining and Territorial Struggles in Latin America
Gisselle Vila Benites examines community engagement with small-scale alluvial mining in tropical regions.
www.maxwell.syr.edu
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
If you are at Syracuse tomorrow, join me at @maxwellsu.bsky.social Geography Colloquium. My talk will dive into alluvial gold mining in the Amazon, emerging aquatic environments, mining formalization, and possibilities for just post-mining landscape recovery
www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2025/...
www.maxwell.syr.edu/events/2025/...
We know the academic publishing system is broken but this is the first time I read a major publishing outlet confirm the diagnosis. Also: open access is the way forward, but how?
“We fundamentally believe that publishing less – but better – is essential for the health of the entire research system worldwide,” the authors of the report state.
Less is more: academic publishing needs ‘radical change,’ Cambridge press report concludes
Academic publishing needs “renewed focus and collective action” to embrace new approaches and ensure the future of the industry, concludes a report from Cambridge University Press, released last we…
retractionwatch.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We know the academic publishing system is broken but this is the first time I read a major publishing outlet confirm the diagnosis. Also: open access is the way forward, but how?
Mañana hablaré sobre la importancia del la recuperación de paisajes post-minado en la regulación de la minería informal en el Perú + visiones de pueblos indígenas. El evento es organizado por la Clínica Jurídica de la Universidad del Pacífico.
#Sanar #RemediaciónAmbiental #RestauraciónEcológica
#Sanar #RemediaciónAmbiental #RestauraciónEcológica
October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Mañana hablaré sobre la importancia del la recuperación de paisajes post-minado en la regulación de la minería informal en el Perú + visiones de pueblos indígenas. El evento es organizado por la Clínica Jurídica de la Universidad del Pacífico.
#Sanar #RemediaciónAmbiental #RestauraciónEcológica
#Sanar #RemediaciónAmbiental #RestauraciónEcológica
Happy to share my personal website: sites.google.com/view/giviben/
Check it out for updates and general information spanning extractives, informal mining, clean-ups, remediation, and indigenous governance in Latin America
Check it out for updates and general information spanning extractives, informal mining, clean-ups, remediation, and indigenous governance in Latin America
Dr. Gisselle Vila Benites
Welcome
sites.google.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Happy to share my personal website: sites.google.com/view/giviben/
Check it out for updates and general information spanning extractives, informal mining, clean-ups, remediation, and indigenous governance in Latin America
Check it out for updates and general information spanning extractives, informal mining, clean-ups, remediation, and indigenous governance in Latin America
Entrevista en “Pequeñas Islas” / @ocramo.bsky.social en donde discutí los retos de la formalización minera en el Perú. Enfaticé que es importante reconocer la profunda heterogeneidad del sector (ejm. Mineria aluvial vs subterránea) y un enfoque de desarrollo territorial. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Pequeñas Islas - YouTube
El dominical de La Encerrona
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July 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Entrevista en “Pequeñas Islas” / @ocramo.bsky.social en donde discutí los retos de la formalización minera en el Perú. Enfaticé que es importante reconocer la profunda heterogeneidad del sector (ejm. Mineria aluvial vs subterránea) y un enfoque de desarrollo territorial. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
As an early career scholar in the job market, and with a paper seven months under review, I can only echo this message: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dear editors, your publication delays are damaging our careers
Chia-Hsuan Hsu waited 18 months before chasing an editor for a decision on a paper. The answer surprised him.
www.nature.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
As an early career scholar in the job market, and with a paper seven months under review, I can only echo this message: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Nice opportunity for young researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America/Caribbean....Challenges and prospects for ‘green’ industrial policy in the Global South www.tni.org/en/open-call...
Challenges and prospects for ‘green’ industrial policy in the Global South | Transnational Institute
The Global Green Industrial Policy Lab invites young researchers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to submit original research on just, ecological industrial policy grounded in the r...
www.tni.org
April 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Nice opportunity for young researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America/Caribbean....Challenges and prospects for ‘green’ industrial policy in the Global South www.tni.org/en/open-call...
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We’re hiring! 🌿
Join Wen as a Policy Campaigner and help us shape UK chemicals regulation through a feminist lens.
🗓️ Deadline: 3rd June, 5pm
📍 Remote/Hybrid | 3 days/week
💰 £38,766 pro rata
Care about justice, health & environment? This is for you.
🔗 Apply now: www.wen.org.uk/jobs-volunte...
Join Wen as a Policy Campaigner and help us shape UK chemicals regulation through a feminist lens.
🗓️ Deadline: 3rd June, 5pm
📍 Remote/Hybrid | 3 days/week
💰 £38,766 pro rata
Care about justice, health & environment? This is for you.
🔗 Apply now: www.wen.org.uk/jobs-volunte...
April 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
We’re hiring! 🌿
Join Wen as a Policy Campaigner and help us shape UK chemicals regulation through a feminist lens.
🗓️ Deadline: 3rd June, 5pm
📍 Remote/Hybrid | 3 days/week
💰 £38,766 pro rata
Care about justice, health & environment? This is for you.
🔗 Apply now: www.wen.org.uk/jobs-volunte...
Join Wen as a Policy Campaigner and help us shape UK chemicals regulation through a feminist lens.
🗓️ Deadline: 3rd June, 5pm
📍 Remote/Hybrid | 3 days/week
💰 £38,766 pro rata
Care about justice, health & environment? This is for you.
🔗 Apply now: www.wen.org.uk/jobs-volunte...
If you’re at #AAG2025 join us tomorrow at the feminist political ecologies of environmental repair panel. We’ll talk about what it entails caring for and repairing relationships with nature. I’ll share my work in progress concerning indigenous perspectives & after-mining transitions in the Amazon.
March 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If you’re at #AAG2025 join us tomorrow at the feminist political ecologies of environmental repair panel. We’ll talk about what it entails caring for and repairing relationships with nature. I’ll share my work in progress concerning indigenous perspectives & after-mining transitions in the Amazon.
What role does Latin America play in critical minerals? My commentary for the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin American Advisor highlights supply countries efforts to balance domestic industrial policies with geopolitical concerns thedialogue.org/latin-americ...
January 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What role does Latin America play in critical minerals? My commentary for the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin American Advisor highlights supply countries efforts to balance domestic industrial policies with geopolitical concerns thedialogue.org/latin-americ...
Reposted by Gisselle Vila Benites
Call for applications: 2025 #Myanmar Emerging Scholars and Young Leaders Workshop held at York University forms.gle/T7HGV54dv68d...
forms.gle
January 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Call for applications: 2025 #Myanmar Emerging Scholars and Young Leaders Workshop held at York University forms.gle/T7HGV54dv68d...
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CFP! At the Nordic STS conference this June in Stockholm @emmapdc.bsky.social & I are organising "Towards just pollution interventions: public experiments beyond the lab"
We welcome abstracts from any discipline or practice. Deadline March 1. Reach out for questions www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abs...
We welcome abstracts from any discipline or practice. Deadline March 1. Reach out for questions www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abs...
January 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
CFP! At the Nordic STS conference this June in Stockholm @emmapdc.bsky.social & I are organising "Towards just pollution interventions: public experiments beyond the lab"
We welcome abstracts from any discipline or practice. Deadline March 1. Reach out for questions www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abs...
We welcome abstracts from any discipline or practice. Deadline March 1. Reach out for questions www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abs...
Reposted by Gisselle Vila Benites
🎧 Liberation Theology in Latin America
Being back from our break, we're starting the year with a new season of our "Hierarchies of Development" Podcast, episode 1 being just released!
🎤 with @ingridhk.bsky.social & Basile Boulay
open.spotify.com/episode/2ifg...
Being back from our break, we're starting the year with a new season of our "Hierarchies of Development" Podcast, episode 1 being just released!
🎤 with @ingridhk.bsky.social & Basile Boulay
open.spotify.com/episode/2ifg...
S3 Ep1 Liberation theology in Latin America
Hierarchies of Development · Episode
open.spotify.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🎧 Liberation Theology in Latin America
Being back from our break, we're starting the year with a new season of our "Hierarchies of Development" Podcast, episode 1 being just released!
🎤 with @ingridhk.bsky.social & Basile Boulay
open.spotify.com/episode/2ifg...
Being back from our break, we're starting the year with a new season of our "Hierarchies of Development" Podcast, episode 1 being just released!
🎤 with @ingridhk.bsky.social & Basile Boulay
open.spotify.com/episode/2ifg...
Reposted by Gisselle Vila Benites
We chatted about fieldwork in supply chains, differences between more or less charismatic commodities, the relations between language, value and labor, secrecy/transparency, how we attach meaning to our jobs (or not!), and the semiotic and material work of translation
econanthro.org/podcasts/is-...
econanthro.org/podcasts/is-...
Is Talk Cheap? Making Palm Oil ‘Sustainable’: A conversation with Montserrat Perez Castro - Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA)
In this episode, Kate and Ariana catch up with Montserrat Pérez Castro in the midst of her fieldwork in Mexico. Transnational food companies and palm oil
econanthro.org
January 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We chatted about fieldwork in supply chains, differences between more or less charismatic commodities, the relations between language, value and labor, secrecy/transparency, how we attach meaning to our jobs (or not!), and the semiotic and material work of translation
econanthro.org/podcasts/is-...
econanthro.org/podcasts/is-...
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Looking for a holiday listen? Our podcast is a growing archive of conversations about shared life, resistance to enclosures, and diverse ways of relating to ‘nature’, places and each other.
futurenatures.org/podcast
futurenatures.org/podcast
Future Natures podcast - Future Natures
The Future Natures podcast is a series of conversations about nature, commons and enclosures with people involved in action, research and activism. Listen You can listen and subscribe to the podcast o...
futurenatures.org
December 21, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Looking for a holiday listen? Our podcast is a growing archive of conversations about shared life, resistance to enclosures, and diverse ways of relating to ‘nature’, places and each other.
futurenatures.org/podcast
futurenatures.org/podcast
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🌊 An #oilspill on the Peruvian coast has polluted 10,000+ m² of ocean and 4 beaches. Marine life is coated in crude oil, devastating fishing & tourism. Oil company Petroperú’s negligence is under fire as communities demand accountability and justice.
amazonwatch.org/news/2024/12...
amazonwatch.org/news/2024/12...
Petroperú Minimizes Oil Spill in Piura: Damage Reported in 10 Thousand Square Meters of Sea and Four Beaches | Amazon Watch
An oil spill resulting from an underwater terminal of Petroperú’s Talara Refinery has spread to four beaches in Lobitos on the northern coast of Peru, affecting approximately 10,000 cubic meters of th...
amazonwatch.org
December 24, 2024 at 12:28 AM
🌊 An #oilspill on the Peruvian coast has polluted 10,000+ m² of ocean and 4 beaches. Marine life is coated in crude oil, devastating fishing & tourism. Oil company Petroperú’s negligence is under fire as communities demand accountability and justice.
amazonwatch.org/news/2024/12...
amazonwatch.org/news/2024/12...
Estoy contenta de acompañar a las y los jóvenes becarios del Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria (SEPIA) en sus proyectos de investigación. Este 2025 además realizaré la ponencia de balance sobre economías informales e ilegales en el Perú rural.
December 19, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Estoy contenta de acompañar a las y los jóvenes becarios del Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria (SEPIA) en sus proyectos de investigación. Este 2025 además realizaré la ponencia de balance sobre economías informales e ilegales en el Perú rural.
Reposted by Gisselle Vila Benites
The new political ecology starter pack is here go.bsky.app/Kr7iPwr
December 8, 2024 at 12:19 PM
The new political ecology starter pack is here go.bsky.app/Kr7iPwr
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The lands of Indigenous and peasant communities in Colombia and Myanmar are being destroyed for extracting 'green' energy resources.
How can we move beyond extractivism and create truly equitable, community-led solutions?
www.tni.org/en/article/m...
How can we move beyond extractivism and create truly equitable, community-led solutions?
www.tni.org/en/article/m...
December 14, 2024 at 11:00 AM
The lands of Indigenous and peasant communities in Colombia and Myanmar are being destroyed for extracting 'green' energy resources.
How can we move beyond extractivism and create truly equitable, community-led solutions?
www.tni.org/en/article/m...
How can we move beyond extractivism and create truly equitable, community-led solutions?
www.tni.org/en/article/m...
Hello world. Human-Environment Geographer here. My themes are #PoliticalEcology #DevelopmentGeography #AgrarianStudies #IndigenousPeople #NaturalResourceGovernance #InformalMining #LatinAmerica #ActionResearch #ParticipatoryMethods
December 12, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Hello world. Human-Environment Geographer here. My themes are #PoliticalEcology #DevelopmentGeography #AgrarianStudies #IndigenousPeople #NaturalResourceGovernance #InformalMining #LatinAmerica #ActionResearch #ParticipatoryMethods
Happy to contribute to the Transnational Institute’s “Mining and Just Transitions” conversation series. I was interviewed on informal mining and ethnic communities in the Andes: www.tni.org/en/article/a...
#IndigenousPeoples #BlackCommunities #PoliticalEcology
#IndigenousPeoples #BlackCommunities #PoliticalEcology
December 11, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Happy to contribute to the Transnational Institute’s “Mining and Just Transitions” conversation series. I was interviewed on informal mining and ethnic communities in the Andes: www.tni.org/en/article/a...
#IndigenousPeoples #BlackCommunities #PoliticalEcology
#IndigenousPeoples #BlackCommunities #PoliticalEcology