Research group for the ethnographic inquiry into ecologies, infrastructures, bodies and knowledges
Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations

Sascha Cornejo Puschner

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

Sabine Biedermann, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Sascha Cornejo Puschner, Adina Dymczyk, Dennis Eckhardt, Janine Hauer, Maren Heibges, Dženeta Hodžić, Jonna Josties, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Céline Lauer, Ruzana Liburkina, Jörg Niewöhner, Stefan Reinsch, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz, Itzell Torres, Krystin Unverzagt, Jorge E. Vega-Marrot

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.

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Sabine Biedermann, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Sascha Cornejo Puschner, Adina Dymczyk, Dennis Eckhardt, Janine Hauer, Maren Heibges, Dženeta Hodžić, Jonna Josties, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Céline Lauer, Ruzana Liburkina, Jörg Niewöhner, Stefan Reinsch, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz, Itzell Torres, Krystin Unverzagt, Jorge E. Vega-Marrot

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.

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2018

Sascha Cornejo Puschner, Andrés Juan Duran Pereira

“¿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.

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2017

Sascha Cornejo Puschner

Políticas de la especie: Eugenesia, vida e ingeniería genética Book

Ril editores, Santiago de Chile, 2017.

Sascha Cornejo Puschner

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.