¡Nuestro recetario por fin está listo! Este libro surge del trabajo colectivo del proyecto "Recetas para la Recuperación" (2023-2025), una propuesta de investigación-acción feminista, transformadora y decolonial. books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

Our recipe book is finally published! Have a look at some of the recipes from Tz'utujil Maya women from our "Recipes for Recovery" project. This work was part of my contribution to the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social based at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social as a postdoc. Thank you all who contributed! 🌱

Almost there! We are finishing our collaborative book between a group of Tz'utujil women in Guatemala and a small team from the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social. This book brings together some of the everyday food recipes of this group of women who were resettled to a new town after a disaster.

A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is. grist.org/food-and-agr... #App #Food #Agriculture #Farms #FoodSystems #Climate

On this day in 1954, the United States orchestrated a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive and democratically-elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

In case you missed our book launch, here's the link to the recorded version! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqXt... Unfortunately, I couldn't be there for the live event, but you can see a pre-recorded presentation of my chapter :) Thank you to the editors and other authors of the book!

🇲🇽🔎 La degradación ambiental que enfrenta Quintana Roo, el único estado del Caribe que tiene #México, es alarmante. Ciudadanos y colectivos presentaron cuatro iniciativas que buscan regular el crecimiento urbano sin control en la zona. tinyurl.com/26k34ecc

Wondering why my brain feels like 🫠...

My paper "Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatán" is now in a published issue of Gender, Place & Culture! Have a look here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/3... #FeministGeographies #MayaWomen

Book available now! Do ask your universities to get a copy 😅 Link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

When you admire someone's work (and cite them) and one day they contact you directly to ask for copies of your paper and PhD thesis because they are interested in reading them 😀✨🤓

Coming soon! tinyurl.com/3md7ty83 In this chapter, I analyse the construction and strengthening of biocultural territories in the Yucatán Peninsula, focusing on the practices and experiences within solares (home gardens) as geographical and symbolic spaces. #decolonial #wayoflife #MayaPeople

Save the date! Join me and the editors and fellow co-authors of the book "Territorial Development in Latin America Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions" at the online book launch organised by the RSA. 21 May 2025 16.00 BST Registration: lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...

♀️🌍 #InternationalWomensDay reminds us WOMEN FEED THE WORLD! Women produce 60% of food in the Global South—yet are denied land, finance & power. “If we don’t get more gender equality in #foodsystems, we’ll keep skewing toward profit—away from sustainability & feeding people.” #IWD2025

Check out the 1st article in our special issue on Community Voices in #JournalofAppliedVolcanology by Ailsa Naismith: 'Illustrating Fuego' #volcano which documents local people's experiences of Fuego's #eruptions. Read it now👇🌋🏘️🎨 appliedvolc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

Despedidas, reencuentros y muchos planes con café de por medio. Se vienen cosas bonitas, pero también se terminan procesos y se cierran proyectos. 💜 Mientras tanto, mi maleta decidió quedarse un rato más 😂. ¡Hasta pronto, Lago Atitlán!

Yesterday I presented some of my work in @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social as part of the session "Art as collaborative practice: Socio-environmental learning with communities" for the Edinburgh Environment & Development Network (EEDN). Always a joy to share the use of creative arts in research! #geography

Have a look at some of the traditions of Maya women in the territories of Yucatán in my latest paper. You can even find food recipes! "The joroch is made with the squash flowers… there are some squashes used for taking the seeds [pepita] out. Those are the ones for the joroch. 1/

Our themed section “Towards Feminist Geographies of Livelihoods” has now been assigned to an issue in Gender, Place & Culture! tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/current

In 2021, I spent some time with Maya women in Yucatán walking around their solares (home gardens) and talking about plants, land, food recipes, traditional medicine, water, and Maya ceremonies, amongst others. In this paper I engage with their everyday work and territories. #newpaper #postdoc

an important report on precarity in UK geography departments: “Whilst we cannot take full responsibility for the endemic structural problems within UK Higher Education, nor can we cede responsibility for caring about our colleagues.” blog.geographydirections.com/2025/01/13/r... @rgsibg.bsky.social

Two of my favourite things in Edinburgh: its city layers and its free library workshops! ✨

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

2024 in nine photos, what a year! Happy 2025! 🎉✨

📢 #PublicationAlert Happy to share that my paper "Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatan" has just been published in Gender, Place & Culture! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I haven't been home for xmas in a couple of years. I'm here this year. It has never been so chaotic and random, I'm so stressed. But I've never laughed-to-tears so many times in a day too! Anyway, Happy Holidays! ✨💜😃

Proofs submitted! This is finally happening ✨🤗 #papercomingsoon

CALL FOR ZINES! geoz.one is hosting the first ever geography zine fair at annual meeting of @geographers in Detroit (March 2025)! You can send us zines in the mail, bring them in person, or have us print some. All info here: bit.ly/40ecAS3. Please RT to share! #geosky

Three papers/chapters revised and resubmitted over the last couple of weeks. Fantastic things are brewing and I can't wait to share my work on/with home gardens, Maya territories, and the work of Indigenous women in Mexico and Guatemala! #publicationsoon #postdoc

Last chance for this event tonight! 🌋🎥

Penultimate event in our @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social project #volcano film series tonight in Edinburgh 👇Last chance to see Pobo 'Tzu'. Join us in #Edinburgh!

Now that there's a bit more people around, here it goes again! @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social

Do you know anyone who speaks Tz'utujil and would be interested in reading about the before/after processes of the 2005 landslide in Panabaj? We have a translated version out now! Find both books online here: books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di... @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social

Hello @bsky.app ! We are the Ixchel project funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund @ukri.org Expect posts on research activities, including but not limited to volcanology, disaster risk reduction, critical decolonial theory, human rights, and arts-based participative methodologies 🌋

Yesterday's snowy Edinburgh ❄️

🌋Introducing 'Volcano Cinema: of Eruptions and Other Stories', organised as part of the GCRF-funded 'Ixchel' project. For more information and tickets: cinemaattic.com/volcano-cine...

On Friday we presented our book about disaster, reconstruction, and community organisation after the 2005 landslide in Santiago Atitlán. This book was requested by the community leaders for the new generations to know their history and to keep the memories alive. books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

Yesterday's Sunday meeting with the community of La Trinidad, near Fuego Volcano in Guatemala. Our collective book is slowly happening!

“They did not mean to kill the children. They meant to. Too many kids got in the way of precisely imprecise one-ton bombs dropped a thousand and one times over the children’s nights.” – Fady Joudah

Paper revised and resubmitted! 🥳

Argh! Final push to finish paper revisions today 😅. Why do we even need conclusions again? 😂

Meet a Feminist Geographer! Me! 😃 This is part of the Feminist Geographies Group series.

Join us for the next Researching Latin America seminar this Thursday, 23 November from 15:00-16:30 at the University of Edinburgh! I'll be presenting some of the work we're doing in the Ixchel Project at the School of GeoSciences. DM me for more info!

Scholars, students, activists, please sign this statement in support of Palestinians: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A bit late in the game, but hi! I'm Ana - architect, environmental social scientist & human geographer. I'm currently a postdoc, working with Maya communities in post-disaster contexts as part of the Ixchel project at Edinburgh uni. I love working with Indigenous women around home-gardens and food.