Author Archives: Marta Vivanco

Not your Earth Mama: Ecological security and the gender-minority myth

A quick skim through the syllabus and my eyes went directly to this week’s topic “Ecological Security and Feminist Environmental Security” as issues of gender have always been consciously tied to those of the earth and environment, I was interested … Continue reading

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Think Piece 2

I was lucky enough to spend the last year abroad in Copenhagen, and once I finished packing, grabbed my metro card and registered for classes I was given one command: assimilate. Denmark is rather proud if not boisterously so of … Continue reading

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Think Piece 1

Ecology and earth resources are the fundamentals of human life, without produce from the earth and the biologically necessary air and water, we fail to exist as a species. As we evolved and partook in industrial productions and developed our … Continue reading

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