Anna Marjaana Heikkinen - Can traditional livelihoods survive climate change & mining in the Peruvian Andes?

EXALT Podcast

This month the EXALT podcast was delighted to welcome University of Helsinki, Global Development Studies doctoral researcher Anna Marjaana Heikkinen. In her doctorate Anna Marjaana focuses on the role of water and climate change in the Peruvian Andes. She works with communities of peasant farmers, who are trying to hold onto traditional ways of working with their land and water in the face of pressures from globalized supply chains and the incursion of extractive industries. She highlighted a case she is working on that shows the deep entanglements between humans, other than human beings, mining, and water. Anna Marjaana also shared some great resources to help the listeners think about water and gave us insight into the ways she communicates science.

Links:

Book: Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta (https://www.emmiitaranta.com/memory-of-water)

Movie: Even the Rain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even_the_Rain)

Dance your PhD contest by Science (correction in the episode we said this was sponsored by Nature) (https://www.science.org/content/page/announcing-annual-dance-your-ph-d-contest). Check out the entries on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dance+your+phd+2021

Some of Anna Marjaana’s popular science articles (EN/FIN/ESP)

• https://blogs.uef.fi/envirolatam/2020/04/20/not-everyone-has-the-privilege-to-wash-the-hands-covid-19-and-unequal-access-to-water-in-latin-america/
• https://www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/ilmasto-ja-luonnon-monimuotoisuus/aarisaat-ajavat-andien-asukkaita-ilmastopakolaisiksi-ja-maaemo-murehtii
• https://www.noticiasser.pe/la-vulnerabilidad-de-las-poblaciones-andinas-va-mas-alla-del-cambio

If you would like to follow Anna Marjaana on social media, please find her on Twitter @AnnaMHeikkinen and on Instagram @anna.maryaana.