Resume

• Teresa

  Velasquez

  California State University San Bernardino

  University of Texas at Austin

  California State University San Bernardino

  University of Texas at Austin

  Austin

  Texas

  My dissertation research focuses on conflicts over water in the southern Ecuadorian Andes. I conducted 29 months of ethnographic field work among a group of small and medium sized dairy farmers who have mobilized in opposition to the construction of a gold mine. Concerns over the possible effects of mining development on rural watersheds brought together farmers

  social Catholics

  environmentalists

  scientists

  and student activists into a new and unlikely coalition for nature rights. My research uncovers the ways in which political mobilization coincides with shifts in the cultural and political meaning of water and unsettles orthodox views that separate nature from culture. \n\nMy research interests include environmental politics

  corporate social responsibility

  knowledge production

  race/ethnicity

  gender and feminism

  social movements

  and the state.

  Doctoral Student

  Department of Anthropology

  BA

  International Relations

  University of California

  Davis

  The University of Texas at Austin

  Masters

  Cultural/Social Anthropology