Course Schedule

Course Schedule

Veranstaltungen von Dr. Aymara Victoria Llanque Zonta

Lehrveranstaltungen

Environmental Sciences - an Introduction. Humanities seminar C (for UWI and GESS) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Aymara Victoria Llanque Zonta

Inhalt: The main content includes: • Conceptualization of paradigms of value-systems with practical exercises • Identification of relevant stakeholders and institutions for environmental decision-making • The importance of social relationships in environmental governance • Social conflicts and the role of deliberation The knowledge in seminars is constructed through role-play teaching method that allows students to understand social-ecological dynamics and to assimilate the contents learned in lectures by facing realistic situations and environmental problems

"When we stand up, they have to negotiate with us" - South-North North-South proposals from local to global sustainable changes (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Aymara Victoria Llanque Zonta

Inhalt: The course proposes to reflect on participation and contributions for sustainability transformation from the perspective of knowledge generation. We will focus on sustainability from the point through lectures and workshop style methodology; for an understanding of political participation of social movements. We will emphasize in social learning and the adoption of a transdisciplinary approach to the interface between science, policy and practice. The inspiration will be local proposals to global changes, mainly examples of South-North North, and their pragmatic responsible towards sustainability. There are 2 threads under which sessions will be organized in the seminar: 1. Interface of Science, Policy and Practice, resonance with social movements from North and South. 2. Understanding meta topics- transformative, transgressive and transdisciplinary learning.

Gastropolitics: From Plate to Planet (FSL) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Aymara Victoria Llanque Zonta

Inhalt: This course offers a sensitive immersion into the ways we feed ourselves, and into the historical, material, spiritual, and political relations that are metabolized each time we eat. Inspired by the empirical philosophy of Annemarie Mol, we start from a simple yet powerful premise: eating is a way of thinking, not from an abstract mind, but from a metabolic mind, one that digests, transforms, remembers, and dreams through the body. Eating is not an individual act, but a relational pact, with the earth, with other species, with the divine, and with time. The point of departure will not be a theory about food, but rather food practices themselves as a window into understanding the world. We build upon the notion of body-territory developed by Guatemalan Maya Indigenous thinker Lorena Cabnal: our bodies are the first territory in dispute, battlegrounds where monocultures, advertisements, ultra-processed products, imposed diets, displaced knowledges, and silenced memories intersect. We will ask: What nourishes us, and what empties or deterritorializes us? How do we heal hunger, of the body and of the spirit? What life networks organize what we eat, how do we relate to them, name them, share them? We will begin by reflecting on the radical interdependence between body and territory, through the lenses of community-based antipatriarchal feminisms and ecofeminisms, to situate one of the structural axes of contemporary food systems: the agroextractive model and the necropolitics of hunger. We will examine how agribusiness not only produces monocultures, but also monocorporealities, monodiets, and monocultures of thought. We will trace a historical journey through strategic foods in the consolidation of the modern colonial gender system, through narratives surrounding salt, sugar, coffee, chocolate, spices, cotton, among others. These foods helped to establish the foundations of capitalist machinery in the 16th and 17th centuries and continue today as examples of the international division of labor and the perpetuation of territorial expropriation policies in the form of global commodity chains. We will talk about a good cup of coffee, but we will not stop at its taste, variety, or brewing method, all elements of our experience as consumers. We are interested in where our mind goes as we enjoy a cup of coffee, what connections we make with the roasted seeds that nourish us, how the living territory circulates within us as we drink, who are the beings involved in the process, how the value chain is formed, and most of all, how we can think beyond and through market narratives to strengthen territorial perspectives. We will explore the relationship between pre-modern diets and the resistances of European rural communities to colonial food impositions, as well as the dietary changes that followed European invasion in the Global South. We will analyze how cannibalism narratives in the “Americas” were used to dehumanize territories and justify their exploitation, even as Indigenous medicinal knowledges were absorbed into European pharmaceuticals. Today, the cannibals of the Global South “eat monocultures”: repetitive, contaminated, and nutritionally impoverished. In this context, we will approach sustainable food systems not as a mere technical improvement, but as a political, cultural, and spiritual transformation. In response to dietary homogenization, we will explore agro-food revitalization processes, from ritualized recipes to ancestral fermentation practices. We will study cases such as raw milk cheese from southern Brazil, persecuted by public health authorities but essential to peasant microbiomes, and fermented beverages made with saliva, such as chicha and masato, revalorized as part of an ecology of care and vital plurality. We will learn about multinaturalism and object-subject relationalities from Viveiros de Castro, to understand how certain Amazonian communities conceive food as an animated entity that heals Wisire: a spiritual anemia caused by uprootedness and the presence of agribusiness. We will delve into food practices in which insects, leaves, prayers, non-psychoactive mushrooms, fermented roots, fats, and unrefined sugars are part of an integral health system. In this frame, cooking and eating become acts of healing, communion, and resistance. We will reflect on how food builds our bodies and territories from within, to imagine how food can return to us language, time, spirit, and social organization, a sense of communality. The course is conceived as a confluence between culinary history, philosophy of the body, Indigenous cosmopolitics, decolonial critique, and urban food experiences, in search of a language that is not only academic but also experiential—one that allows us to recover recipes, rituals, encounters, affections, and networks. Because encountering food is a radical act: it implies pacts of commensality, interdependent relationships, and an ethics of care. Eating also means choosing who we align with, what world we want to digest, and which one we are willing to cook.

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