Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco
@ana-j.bsky.social
visiting researcher - currently applying to jobs || working with Indigenous communities in post-disaster contexts on food, plants, and (im)mobilities || a feminist geographer & decolonial scholar || yucateca
New #chapter! "Plants for #Recovery: Indigenous Women’s Perspectives in a #Post-disaster Resettlement" looks at the work of Tz'utujil women in their home gardens in #Guatemala. Here, women transform small plots, windowsills, and communal corners into living archives of #Maya knowledge.
"Tumbar el monte" is an essential first step when preparing a site for a milpa (rainfed agricultural plot). It means to knock the (low)forest down, part of a slash-and-burn process. Monte is the word we use in Yucatán for the forest. Why is this official document translating it as "mount tomb"?!? 🥲
A bit of food, traditions, and biocultural practices and territories. I wrote a wee piece about "relleno negro", a tasty and spicy dish from Yucatán in Mexico. Recipe included! Happy cooking :) thefoodscapescollective.com/2026/01/29/r...
Bite-Sized Histories: Relleno Negro, A Spicy Taste from Yucatán
Rooted in the ancient milpa system of the Yucatán Peninsula, relleno negro is more than a dish—it is a living expression of Maya foodways. From charred chillies to communal celebrations, this smoky…
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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! 🌱
Edinburgh Diamond@edinburghdiamond.bsky.social · last yr.We are pleased to share our latest #OA book, 'Mujeres Tz’utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk'. This recipe book is part of a transformative feminist & decolonial project that documents the agri-food traditions within the work of Tz'utujil Maya women. books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...
Juggling work, applications, (new) teaching, training, writing, and trying to have healthy habits, with the world collapsing in a new and exciting way every day: I'm exhausted by 8 Jan. (Oh yeah, I also only had three days off this end of year, so add that) 🫠 But yeah, happy new year!
¡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! 🌱
Edinburgh Diamond@edinburghdiamond.bsky.social · last yr.We are pleased to share our latest #OA book, 'Mujeres Tz’utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk'. This recipe book is part of a transformative feminist & decolonial project that documents the agri-food traditions within the work of Tz'utujil Maya women. books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...
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
A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is
A “first of its kind" tool could help untangle the complex global web of food supply chains and make it more resilient to climate shocks.
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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!
Book launch: Territorial Development in Latin America: Cultural, Economic & Environmental Dimensions
YouTube video by Regional Studies Association
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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco@ana-j.bsky.social · last yr.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
🇲🇽🔎 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
Al rescate del Caribe mexicano: ciudadanos proponen leyes para frenar impactos ambientales del avance inmobiliario en Quintana Roo
Ante la degradación ambiental en Quintana Roo, ciudadanos presentaron iniciativas de leyes para regular el crecimiento urbano sin control.
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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
Gender, Place & Culture
Volume 32, Issue 5 of Gender, Place & Culture
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Book available now! Do ask your universities to get a copy 😅 Link: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco@ana-j.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
Building biocultural territoriesin the Solares of the Yucatán Peninsul
The solar is the basic territorial unit for peninsular Maya families, where their traditional ways of life endure, intertwining nature and culture. In this
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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
WOMEN GROW, COOK & SUSTAIN OUR FOOD. IT'S TIME TO RECOGNIZE THEM
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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. 🪄
Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism@jksteinberger.bsky.social · 2y agoBlessings of the morning: going over student weekly reading reports, and as requested, they didn't use chatgpt. It's all full of life and originality and actual thinking, confusion, brain work. 😍😍😍 Will share the anti-AI motivational slides I showed them, French and English versions, a bit later.
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/
Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatán
Following decolonial and feminist geographic perspectives, in this paper I look at the everyday (re)productive work of Maya women in their home-gardens in the Peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico. Building...
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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco@ana-j.bsky.social · 2y ago📢 #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....
Our themed section “Towards Feminist Geographies of Livelihoods” has now been assigned to an issue in Gender, Place & Culture! tandfonline.com/toc/cgpc20/current
Gender, Place & Culture
Volume 32, Issue 1 of Gender, Place & Culture
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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
Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco@ana-j.bsky.social · 2y ago📢 #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....
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
Resources for change: raising awareness of the challenges of fixed term contracts in geography departments
By the States of Precarity Team:, Johanne Bruun, Rachel Colls, James Esson, Peter Forman, Anna Jackman, Rachael Squire (corresponding author) “Because geography is about attention to difference an…
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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...
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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