Amalia Leguizamón
@dr_leguizamon
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Associate Professor @Tulane | Sociology, Latin America & Environment | Author of Seeds of Power | https://t.co/HgVGC868Es
New Orleans, LA
Joined September 2010
Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina Now translated into both Spanish and Portuguese A thread of where to read the Intro chapters and how to purchase in the links below 👇👇👇 #seedsofpower #GMOs #Monsanto #Bayer #glyphosate
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❗🚢 El Gobierno de Milei avanza con la reprivatización del río Paraná. La licitación de la hidrovía favorece a las empresas extranjeras y no contempla control estatal. Mientras, la ciudad entrerriana de Victoria está, otra vez, en emergencia hídrica❗💧 ➡️ https://t.co/3Ib5AaGMCZ
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La pregunta es cómo, pese a la evidencia sobre su peligro, el glifosato continúa aplicándose. Si permanece en el mercado no es por la falta de pruebas sobre los daños sino por la presión económica y corporativa para sostenerlo ☠️🚜🙈 ✍️ @anabelpomar ➡️ https://t.co/1pXarrfBv7
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We're thrilled to share that Handbook on #Inequality and the #Environment, edited by Michael A. Long, Michael J. Lynch, and Paul B. Stretesky, has been named a @Choice_Reviews #OutstandingAcademicTitles2024 award winner! 🎉 🔗 Order your copy at: https://t.co/ZNfMFu9s3o
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DuPont plant in Louisiana fined $480,000 for release of cancer-causing chemical
nola.com
Women who have inhaled high levels of the chemical have reported reproductive effects, and long-term exposure can also cause blood disorders.
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We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Environmental History at @TulaneSLA! Joint position with @TulaneHistory and Environmental Studies. . Deadline 11/01 https://t.co/KoSXcKBbGp Please share widely!
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BIG: California sues ExxonMobil for "deceiving the public [for decades] that plastic recycling could solve the plastic waste crisis when they clearly knew this wasn’t possible". With plastics as with climate change, #ExxonKnew. https://t.co/X7ci4WtBmd
theguardian.com
First-of-its-kind suit comes as climate experts claim that fossil fuel producers are deceiving public about plastics
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#Chile's President @GabrielBoric in conversation with ILAS Director @VickyMurilloNYC at @Columbia's World Leaders Forum. Wednesday 09/25 at 11:30am EST. Watch live on https://t.co/Geo4JIPr54
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La "República Unida de la Soja", como la bautizó la corporación Syngenta, prendida fuego. No es humo, es el agronegocio... 🔥🔥🔥
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"For decades, Washington has told #Mexico and other countries that they should trust US agency assurances that #GMO crops and glyphosate are safe. For decades, Mexico accepted those assurances. But those days have ended." https://t.co/UY5l4mlBQx
@nongmoreport @drvandanashiva
thefern.org
Do nations have the right to determine their own food policies? Can they make laws to safeguard domestic agriculture, public health, the environment, and the genetic integrity of the national diet?
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🚨 De madrugada, la Legislatura de Chaco habilitó el desmonte de más de un millón de hectáreas de bosque nativo. Es indispensable desarticular esta Mafia del Desmonte. ✍🏻 La nota de Enrique Viale en @elDiarioAR
https://t.co/7bnZkFkpMd
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👏👏👏 Las semillas del poder.” , de @dr_leguizamon (trad. Gerardo Raúl Losada), fue premiado ❤️ con una mención honorable a mejor libro de 2022 de la sección Medioambiente de @LASACONGRESS Conseguilo acá: https://t.co/zsuHWUkFTo
Thrilled to share that Las semillas del poder @UNSAMedita (the Spanish translation of Seeds of Power @DukePress) won an Honorable Mention for @lasaenvironment 2022 Book Award! 🏆🏆🏆 #LASA2024 Congrats also to @sarahthines and @petertklein! It's an honor to be in your company.
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Thrilled to share that Las semillas del poder @UNSAMedita (the Spanish translation of Seeds of Power @DukePress) won an Honorable Mention for @lasaenvironment 2022 Book Award! 🏆🏆🏆 #LASA2024 Congrats also to @sarahthines and @petertklein! It's an honor to be in your company.
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“People need to be concerned because we see that the more data we gather on pesticides, the more we realize the levels that we previously thought to be safe turn out not to be." https://t.co/EuA6Q34hFU
@EPA @thenewledenews @ConsumerReports
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Para el gobierno, la "batalla cultural" es asesinar la educación pública y la cultura. Buscan brutalizar todo bajo el modelo del mercado, aniquilando el derecho a la educación gratuita. Marcha federal, 23 de abril: Por la defensa de la universidad y la educación pública!
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Para los que se perdieron la conversacion del lunes sobre la politica y economia de Milei con @mdalpog @horaciorlarreta, #MartinUribe y moderada por #MalenaNIgro, aca esta el video 👇 https://t.co/EwfXhmQH7w
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Today @Tulane! "The Dollar: How the US Dollar Became a Popular Currency in Argentina." @LuzziMariana and @AWILKIS present their new book, The Dollar @UNMPress Monday, April 8 Dinwiddie 201 3:30PM @TulaneSLA
@TUsclas @CIPR_Tulane
https://t.co/LJt0gnkybG
tulane.campuslabs.com
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Thanks to Javier Auyero for sending a copy of his newly edited book! 📚🎉 Portraits of Resistance: Inequality and Hope in Latin America @UTexasPress With chapters by @katiejen5en
@jderpic @ksobering and more! Can't wait to read it!
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Thanks to @TUsclas and the Environmental Studies Program @TulaneSLA @Tulane for supporting this research!
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