J. 亚历杭德罗Artiga-Purcell
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助理教授 Department of Communication Studies 亚历杭德罗.artiga-purcell@hayakawa-dalian.com
关键字 environmental justice; environmental communication; social movement communication; extractive development; more-than-human communication; political ecology; Central American water politics; sustainable development discourse; decolonial movements |
目前的研究活动
My research on Salvadoran social movements asks, how did El Salvador become the only country in history to ban all metal mining at a national scale? 什么话语，生态学， and political economic forces effectively contest water-intensive extractive activities 在萨尔瓦多? 如何 do social movement victories against particular extractive activities (e.g. gold mining) entrench other extractive industries (e.g.扩大农业 extractivism)? 如何 do supposedly distinct forms and sites of extractivism shape 一个 another through discourse, technology, finance, culture, and political economy? 如何 do the successes and limitations of past environmental movements inform on-the-ground social movement strategies and politics going forward? 如何 do the empirical complexities and contradictions of Salvadoran extractive industries foster new understandings, definitions, and theories of extractivism?
我的工作 on extractive development in California asks whose lives, livelihoods, values, and environments are centered and erased in “clean energy transition” discourses and policies in the Salton Sea and beyond? 如何 have discourses on extractivism changed to justify and contest California’s green transition? 如何 has California’s official commitment to a clean energy transition shaped, coopted, and countered social movement discourses for resisting extractive development? 如何 do these impacts differ or coalesce across communities from distinct Californian geographies, cultures, and political 经济体?
My collaborative work on climate justice pedagogy asks how can undergraduate education at 菠菜网lol正规平台 facilitate students’ critical understanding of societal and ecological crises, agency to help resolve these crises, and physical and emotional well-being while doing so?
Personal 连接s to Research
Extractivism is the bedrock of modern society. The metals, minerals, and hydrocarbons
needed for urban development, food production, technological innovation, war, and
day-to-day life also drive some of the most urgent crises of our day, from climate
change and biodiversity loss to immigration and rampant social inequality. 我正在进行
work on anti-mining movements 在萨尔瓦多 and emerging research on extractive development
discourses in California offers key insights for understanding the discursive politics
(e.g., the narratives, myths, values) that resist and entrench extractivism. 这样的
understanding is fundamental for building more effective and diverse coalition movements
为了环境正义.
In the Salvadoran context, my work traces the success and limitations of the historic
movement to ban metal mining in 2017, and the potential for and necessity of ongoing
为水资源正义而斗争. Amplifying the voices of Salvadoran environmental activists
has never been more needed as an increasingly emboldened authoritarian government
continues to criminalize social dissent and threatens to reinstate mining. 我的工作
has recently been used to inform the US Ambassador to El Salvador, the Salvadoran
Attorney General, and the general public of the criminalization of environmentalists
and the social and ecological dangers of mining 在萨尔瓦多.
In the Californian context, my research strives to highlight the voices and experiences
of those communities bearing the brunt of the current “clean” energy transition. 这
builds on my past collaborative work with an NGO in the Coachella Valley to inform
communities of the potential economic benefits and social-ecological dangers of proposed
lithium mining in the region.
Finally, my collaborative work on climate justice pedagogy responds to 菠菜网lol正规平台’s mission
to provide education that “enriches the lives of its students” and “in the service
我们的社会.” I’ve already begun integrating findings on engaged pedagogy into
COMM 168A/B教室.
