I am a doctoral candidate at the Institute for European Ethnology of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since May 2018.
I focus on the intersection of Political Ecology with Science and Technologies Studies. My research interests include local and global connections raised by mining extractivism, as well as human-environmental relations.
My research project consists of an ethnographical approach to investigate the social and ecological conflicts caused by copper mining in the Chilean Region of Tarapaca. The analytical focus is mainly based on diverging understandings of nature among the conflict parties. These value systems, currently understood in literature primarily as “natural regimes” are gaining in importance because they articulate indigenous and social positions critical of capitalism that have hitherto remained invisible to established economic interests. The case study refers beyond its concrete context to a current debate in Latinoamerica: Human-environment relations are changing rapidly and thus promote new ways of dealing with resource extraction and environmental conservationism.
Contact: puschnes@student.hu-berlin.de
Find me also at: IRI THESys
Publications
2019
Current work in the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations: Doing research in a more-than-thought collective Journal Article
In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.
From the Collaboratory Social Anthropology & Life Sciences to the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations Journal Article
In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.
2018
“¿Política de la naturaleza o naturaleza como política? Claves teóricas para repensar la relación naturaleza y cultura” Journal Article
In: Revista de la Academia, vol. 26, pp. 7-33, 2018.
2017
Políticas de la especie: Eugenesia, vida e ingeniería genética Book
Ril editores, Santiago de Chile, 2017.
La relación naturaleza y ser humano, tecnología y biología bajo la luz del posthumanismo Journal Article
In: Revista Antropologías del Sur, vol. 4, no. 8, 2017.
2019
Current work in the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations: Doing research in a more-than-thought collective Journal Article
In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.
From the Collaboratory Social Anthropology & Life Sciences to the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations Journal Article
In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.
2018
“¿Política de la naturaleza o naturaleza como política? Claves teóricas para repensar la relación naturaleza y cultura” Journal Article
In: Revista de la Academia, vol. 26, pp. 7-33, 2018.
2017
Políticas de la especie: Eugenesia, vida e ingeniería genética Book
Ril editores, Santiago de Chile, 2017.
La relación naturaleza y ser humano, tecnología y biología bajo la luz del posthumanismo Journal Article
In: Revista Antropologías del Sur, vol. 4, no. 8, 2017.