{"id":2038,"date":"2025-11-26T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:09:14","slug":"colloquium-caress-of-the-chinampa-nahua-ecologies-of-survivance-and-the-death-of-mexico-city-by-daniel-p-gamez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/colloquium-caress-of-the-chinampa-nahua-ecologies-of-survivance-and-the-death-of-mexico-city-by-daniel-p-gamez\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: \u201cCaress of the Chinampa: Nahua Ecologies of Survivance and the Death of Mexico City\u201d by Daniel P. G\u00e1mez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series:<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cCaress of the Chinampa: Nahua Ecologies of Survivance and the Death of Mexico City\u201d<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Daniel P. G\u00e1mez<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Monday, December 1, 2025<br \/>\n1:00-2:00 p.m.<br \/>\nCHASS INTS 1111<\/h3>\n<p>In this talk, Daniel G\u00e1mez weaves extended conversations, collaborative archival analysis, and political advocacy with elders, traditional authorities, and agricultural workers of Atlapulco, a Nahua <em>pueblo<\/em> in Xochimilco, southern Mexico City. He focuses on the everyday intimate, spiritual, and embodied encounters with earthen materials and waterscapes, tracing environmental transformations experienced by chinampa ecologies\u2014characterized by abundance and life\u2014with the expansion of the colonial city. The talk will consider how the latter is on the brink of environmental catastrophe, prompted by centuries of imperial urbanization.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2039 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gamez-751x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gamez-751x1024.png 751w, https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gamez-220x300.png 220w, https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gamez-110x150.png 110w, https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gamez-768x1048.png 768w, https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gamez-784x1070.png 784w, https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gamez.png 884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong>Daniel P. G\u00e1mez<\/strong>, UC President&#8217;s Postdoctoral Fellow, American Indian Studies &amp; History\u2014University of California, Los Angeles\u2014is also a postdoctoral scholar for the project \u201cRace in the Global Past through Native Lenses,\u201d supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from The University of British Columbia and is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist specializing in the study of anticolonial thought, racialization, Indigenous sovereignty, and imperial urbanism in Abya Yala (Latin America &amp; the Caribbean).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series: \u201cCaress of the Chinampa: Nahua Ecologies of Survivance and the Death of Mexico City\u201d By Daniel P. 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