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María Elena García

María Elena García is associate professor in the Comparative History of Ideas Department at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru (University of California Press, 2021). icon

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What happens when thinking of soil as a living being and force, with whom the human world needs to repair and rebuild ties?

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