Nemer E. Narchi- PhD Anthropology (UGA)
- Professor (Full) at Colegio de Michoacán
Nemer E. Narchi
- PhD Anthropology (UGA)
- Professor (Full) at Colegio de Michoacán
Pensando en economías azules y soberanías alimentarias.
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Introduction
Initially trained as an oceanographer, I am an environment anthropologist working in coastal and marine communities since the year 2000.
Currently, my research revolves around local ecological knowledge with particular emphasis on the political ecology of food systems and environmental justice.
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August 2010 - May 2011
June 2015 - June 2015
Position
- Invited Professor
Description
- Curso de actualización docente "Lo ambiental en las ciencias sociales"
April 2015 - February 2016
Education
August 2005 - May 2011
August 1995 - January 2003
Publications
Publications (107)
In December 2010 Mexico hosted the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancún, Quintana Roo. The conference intentionally crossed World Forest Day, celebrated on December 5, and this gave Felipe Calderón, then president of Mexico and current chairman of the World Resource Institute’s Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, an opportun...
Throughout human history, calendars have been a universal constant in all societies, providing a sense of continuity and connection with the environment. Their importance lies in their crucial role in social organization, decision-making in the management of biological resources, and survival. Despite their vitality in these areas, there is a theor...
Oceanography stands at a critical juncture, confronting the coupled challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss while also addressing calls for equity and justice in ocean economic development and governance. This paper defines and advocates for the weaving of three perspectives into oceanography education, research, and policy practice: the...
The global food production system is increasingly strained by abrupt and unpredictable weather events, which hinder communities' ability to adapt to climate variations. Despite advances in meteorological predictions, many communities lack the academic knowledge or infrastructure to interpret these complex models. This gap highlights the need for so...
This chapter deals with artisanal fishers and fish as food for humans in a book about Brazilian reefs. In doing so, we reflect on the urgent need to realize that healthy eating is the right of all of us and that these fishers are responsible for bringing the fish to our tables. The conservation of coastal ecosystems depends on public policies that...
Los caballitos de mar (género Hippocampus Rafinesque, 1810) son un grupo de peces óseos distribuidos en aguas marinas cálidas y templadas alrededor del mundo. Actualmente se encuentran bajo presión antropogénica derivada de la destrucción y modificación del hábitat, así como por su explotación comercial para fines alimenticios, medicinales (sobre t...
The Pacific seahorse ( Hippocampus ingens ) is a teleost fish native to the Pacific Ocean. In Mexico they are protected by national legislation; however, there are no studies regarding their commercial use or population status. From a conservation perspective they are a threatened fish and from a socio‐economic aspect they represent a source of inc...
La etnobiología es una disciplina científica que estudia las relaciones entre las sociedades humanas y su entorno natural desde una perspectiva cultural y biológica. Se centra en el conocimiento tradicional de diferentes culturas acerca de las plantas, animales y ecosistemas, así como en cómo las comunidades utilizan y gestionan los recursos natura...
El capítulo da consejos de la salud física y emocional de las personas investigadoras y sus colaboradores en el campo y está diseñado para estudiantes y profesionales tanto de las ciencias sociales como de las ciencias biológicas
The Pacific seahorse ( Hippocampus ingens) is an important cultural and economic resource for coastal communities in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. However, the conservation of this species is threatened by overfishing, habitat loss, and lack of awareness about its ecological importance. In this study, we examine the local ecological knowledge and u...
El presente decálogo busca que las lecciones aprendidas durante el AIPAA 2022 en México constituyan una línea base de acciones para las comunidades, la política pública, la academia, y las organizaciones de la sociedad civil. En particular, sus diez
exhortos representan una reflexión de avances y desafíos para sus principales protagonistas, las per...
Introduction:
Coral reef structures in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero are well-preserved. The coverage of living corals, near 60 % at several locations, makes them comparable to other coral reefs in the states of Oaxaca, Jalisco, and Nayarit and with high potential to promote their conservation.
Objective:
To present the outcome of 12 years of research in...
This book brings together a series of works that analyze the interactions between human beings and the coastal-marine environment using diverse lenses such as complex systems theory, ethnoecology, nutrition, environmental justice and critical geography. Its mission is to mark a route for the production of multivocality in maritime and coastal right...
Successful conservation of long‐lived species requires reliable understanding of long‐term trends and historical baselines. We present a framework for evaluating abundance trends and conservation outcomes for long‐lived marine species by integrating local ecological knowledge (LEK), ecological monitoring, and computer simulation, tested on a case‐s...
This is a review of the book entitled “Guerra nos mares do sul. O papel da oceanografia na destruição de territórios tradicionais da pesca”. This book is authored by: Gustavo G. M. Moura. The book reviewed here was published in the Citizenship and Environment Collection of Annablume Publishers, 2017.
Las infografías aquí presentes tienen un propósito múltiple: Primero, 1) como material didáctico, 2) herramienta pedagógica y 3) vehículo de comunicación en la consulta previa, libre e informada y, finalmente, 4) como vehículo gráfico de apoyo en el diálogo de saberes.
The path to sustainable small-scale fisheries (SSF) is based on multiple learning processes that must transcend generational changes. To understand young leaders from communities with sustainable SSF management practices in Mexico, we used in-depth interviews to identify their shared motivations and perceptions for accepting their fishing heritage....
Successful conservation of long-lived species requires reliable understanding of long-term trends and historical baselines. Using a green turtle ( Chelonia mydas ) foraging aggregation in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico as case study, we integrated scientific monitoring data with historic catch rate reconstructions derived from Local Ecolog...
The growing recognition of food justice as an element of food studies inquiry has opened a productive vein that allows for analyzing the effects of oppression on traditional foods of Indigenous peoples. We provide a preliminary classification of food oppression by presenting several different types of foods from a number of cultures: (1) replaced a...
L a etnobiología, ciencia que estudia la relación entre las sociedades humanas y los seres vivos de su ambiente local, es una disciplina híbrida que nace a fines del siglo XIX con la finalidad de realizar inventarios de los recursos bióticos que podrían ser sujetos de explotación en los países emergentes y las colonias dependientes de Europa (Ford,...
During the decades of 1960–1980, Richard S. Felger and Mary B. Moser researched the botanical knowledge of the Seris (Comcaac), a hunter-gatherer and fishing people living in the arid desert of northwestern Mexico. They recorded and published an extensive body of species-specific data so rich in biological and ethnographic detail that it is possibl...
The social and environmental effects of industrial agriculture in the San Quintín Valley of Baja California are closely related. An environmental history of the valley from European contact to the present demonstrates that modern schemes of globalized agricultural production erode biological diversity while fostering labor exploitation. A critical...
Resumen La falta de acceso a fuentes de agua segura es un problema en el Caribe Mexicano, particularmen-te en comunidades con irregularidad en servicios. Ante esto, la captación de agua de lluvia (CALL) podría representar una alternativa para satisfacer necesidades básicas. Sin embargo, los esquemas de implementación a menudo son verticales y jerár...
Deriving robust historical population trends for long-lived species subject to human exploitation is challenging in scenarios where long-term scientific data are scarce or unavailable, as often occurs for species affected by small-scale fisheries and subsistence hunting. The importance of Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) in data-poor scenarios is i...
RESUMO Neste artigo, tracei os passos com os quais os projetos turísticos podem ser transformados em apropriação oceânica (ocean grabbing). O foco da análise é a desapropriação do acesso à praia e a repercussão dessa desapropriação na erosão do conhecimento ecológico local. Apresento um caso de estudo peculiar: Playitas, uma pequena praia localizad...
Trashumancia y hospitalidad como signos de los tiempos en la era de las expulsiones Nemer E. Narchi Presentación por Nemer E. Narchi se distribuye bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional. Presentación Abrimos el volumen 40 contemplando un mundo dinámico y, por ahora, ininteligible en términos de migración. Esto e...
Invitación - 2a Reunión de Oceanografía Social
Mayo, 2019
This book explores the knowledge, work and life of Pacific coastal populations from the Pacific Northwest to Panama. Center stage in this volume is the knowledge people acquire on coastal and marine ecosystems. Material and aesthetic benefits from interacting with the environment contribute to the ongoing building of coastal cultures. The contribut...
The Mexican northwest has experienced a tremendous change since European contact. Until the middle of the twentieth century, the Seri diet was based on seasonal consumption of wild edibles. The collection and consumption of such food products were culturally mediated by a lunation system that combined lunar phases and resource seasonality through a...
Resumen
Este ensayo revisa los alcances de la oceanografía social tal como fue presentada y discutida en la Primera Reunión de Oceanografía Social organizada en el Centro de Estudios en Geografía Humana de El Colegio de Michoacán en septiembre de 2017. La oceanografía social es un campo innovador e híbrido de estudio, situado en el umbral entre la...
This essay reviews the scope and aims of Social Oceanography as presented and discussed at the First Social Oceanography Meeting held at the Center for Human Geography Studies of El Colegio de Michoacán in September 2017. Social Oceanography is a hybrid field of study at the interface between the natural and social sciences focused on understanding...
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En este artículo hacemos una reflexión preliminar acerca de la administración del Páramo de Sumapaz. Nuestro ensayo está encaminado a subrayar los modos en que la administración del Estado territorializa los espacios de conservación en modos y formas ajenos y adversos a los modos de vida campesina que se desarrollan en est...
Foto-ensayo producido en la región Ixil, departamento de El Quiché, Guatemala; en el marco de un proceso de acompañamiento a personas sobrevivientes de crímenes de lesa humanidad cometidos por el ejército guatemalteco durante la década de 1980. En las fotografías se muestra en formatos abiertos elementos del paisaje natural y humano, particularment...
Magdalena Bay in Baja California Sur has long been one of the most productive fishing areas in Mexico. However, its most important fishery products have undergone marked changes as stocks of commercial species are depleted. A significant proportion of the catch of scaly fish takes place in the Gulf of Ulloa. Recently, the economic situation of loca...
Este ensayo revisa los alcances de la oceanografía social tal como fue presentada y discutida en la Primera Reunión de Oceanografía Social organizada en el Centro de Estudios en Geografía Humana de El Colegio de Michoacán en septiembre de 2017. La oceanografía social es un campo innovador e híbrido de estudio, situado en el umbral entre las ciencia...
Resumen
La progresiva degradación ambiental del paisaje biocultural conformado en el Lago de Xochimil- co ha puesto en riesgo la denominación del área como Sitio Patrimonio Mundial. La degradación ambiental del Lago de Xochimilco se debe, en buena parte, a la verticalidad en la implementación de proyectos productivos y medidas de conservación. Este...
La progresiva degradación ambiental del paisaje biocultural conformado en el Lago de Xochimilco ha puesto en riesgo la denominación del área como Sitio Patrimonio Mundial. La degradación ambiental del Lago de Xochimilco se debe, en buena parte, a la verticalidad en la implementación de proyectos productivos y medidas de conservación. Este artículo...
General audience note on the article “Aposematism: An Alternative Hypothesis on How We Discover Medicinal Organisms” - See more at: http://centrosconacyt.mx/objeto/anemonas/#sthash.nLq0fcMg.6eRYO3SP.dpuf
The most widely accepted theories as to how primates select medicinal organisms are based on smelling and tasting bitter—and most of the times toxic—plants (Etkin and Ross 1982; Johns 1990). In primates, however, the senses of smell and taste are not as dominant as is vision. I present a perspective claiming that aposematism, the conspicuous colora...
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La migración por jubilación ocurre en varios países de Centroamérica, en el norte de África y en la Unión Europea, en donde los inmigrantes jubilados ocupan la región mediterránea (Lizárraga-Morales, 2008). En México, esa migración se presenta como un turismo residencial rural. En los últimos veinte años y tras las modi ca...
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En este capítulo nos proponemos dar elementos de reflexión para entender las contradicciones inmersas en cuanto a la conservación, usos y fragilidad de la biodiversidad, las condiciones necesarias para que se dé una gestión comunitaria sustentable de ésta, y una visualización prospectiva sobre su destino, en un mundo caract...
A lo largo de la historia, la playa ha sido fuente de sustento, frontera inexpugnable, lugar de exilio y sitio de lanzamiento de campañas bélicas. En el siglo XVII, la playa se transformó en un espacio de esparcimiento, descanso y confort (Lěncek y Bosker, 1998). Su apertura geográfica por la industria turística generó un subsector económico de ráp...
The cultural importance that corals and coralline organisms have played in coastal societies worldwide is highlighted by the great diversity of direct and indirect uses given to these organisms. Among the most ubiquitous ethnobiological traits of corals and coralline organisms is their inclusion in local pharmacopoeias for at least 5000 years. In t...
Corals and coral reefs are of uttermost economic, environmental and cultural importance, for they host nearly a quarter of all marine species. As such, humans derive important, economic, social, and environmental benefits from these quintessential reef builders. Currently, tropical, subtropical, and deep cold water coral species are being damaged b...
Corallium rubrum, precious red Mediterranean coral, has been used since antiquity. This chapter examines the use of this coral in the Mediterranean region from the time of the Roman Empire for evidence of conceptions of the nature and origin of Corallium rubrum, and the healing and protective qualities attributed to it. The importance of red coral...
Arriving for the first time to Hermosillo airport is a unique experience, in large part because of the ways in which local gastronomy dominates the retail spaces. Normally, airport shops throughout Mexico carry mass-produced keepsakes, some local handcrafts, tequila shot glasses, and mass-produced apparel. Hermosillo’s airport is different. While t...
This book explores the ethnobiology of corals by examining the various ways in which humans, past and present, have exploited and taken care of coral and coralline habitats. This book will bring the educated general audience closer to corals by exploring the various circumstances of human-coral coexistence by providing scientifically sound and jarg...
Background:
Worldwide, coastal communities' ethnomedicinal knowledge has been sporadically recorded and poorly understood. Based on the ethnomedicinal knowledge of the Seri people; a hunting-gathering and fishing society of Northwestern Mexico, this study assesses a) the biological richness of Seri ethnomedicinal knowledge, b) the fidelity level o...
Biodiversity consists of all living creatures and ecosystems. With industrial development since XVIIIth century it has been increasingly exploited and destroyed, but this has worsen in XXth Century. Specifically with the beginning of genetic engineering in the 80s and 90s, a debate started about genes and living creatures' property, as they passed...
Neoliberal reforms and social constructs that legitimate the full exploitation of
nature intersect with political power to produce an inherently violent social atmosphere
in which economic development is based on exclusion, submission, and dispossession of rural and indigenous communities. Historical ecological study of Lake Xochimilco
reveals the...
The behavior of environmental scholars is satirically depicted. What should be portrayed as an eternal cycle of contradiction between theory and practice is considered. Cynical explanations for scholarly endeavor are recited. At the conclusion, the need for new, holistic, and “outside of the box” approaches to socio-environmental studies is insinua...
En este volumen que rescata la discusión de esta problemática no están expuestos todos los problemas en torno al agua de esta región sur de nuestra ciudad. Presentamos sólo una muestra representativa de su expresión local relacionada con el dominio y la expansión de un enfoque desarrollista irracional y depredador a partir del cual no se valora la...
La presión hídrica que sufre el Distrito Federal, si bien ha sido acrecentada en los tiempos recientes, tiene un origen histórico en el pensamiento colonial. Con la llega- da de los españoles y la posterior emulación de los cánones europeos del desarrollo, presentes desde los primeros momentos del contacto europeo, pero sensiblemente notables duran...
The study illustrates how neoliberal reforms and social constructs of nature giving legitimate right to fully exploit nature intersect with political power to produce an inherently violent social atmosphere where economic development is based on exclusion, submission, and dispossession are enforced against the wellbeing of peri-urban communities of...
The second half of the XX century has seen a rise in the manufacture of environmentally oriented documentaries produced in various countries, overarching through different natural resource related themes. Most of these documentaries are aimed at portraying the conflicts arising over the appropriation, exploitation, access and use of natural resourc...
La zona sur del Distrito Federal mantiene todavía importantes zonas de reserva ecológica que han servido de sustento a sus habitantes a partir de la puesta en marcha de diversas prácticas productivas acordes con el medio natural, con las oportunidades de mercado y con los incentivos generados desde los programas de gobierno.
En este trabajo presen...
This report describes marine ethnobiology as it has been presented and discussed under the con- ference session “Ethnothalassic interactions” organized for the 13th International Congress of Ethnobiology. We define marine ethnobiology as a field within ethnobiology that specifically comprises the study of the relationships of present and past human...
This study examines the consequences that local climate change, caused by environmental degradation, has had over the lacustrine area of Xochimilco, Mexico. The former is done by using ethnographic methods to record and examine the local perceptions of climate change, as well as the adaptations that local producers have generated in order to mitiga...
Review of Bedouin Ethnobotany: Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World. James P. Mandaville. 2010. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Pp. 352, 33b/w photos, 2 maps, 5 tables. $55.00 (hardcover + CD). ISBN 978-0-8165-2900-1.
Este documento habla de una tesis y un tesista en particular. A primera vista, la narrativa puede parecer muy individual como para que se considere dentro de los anales históricos de la Facultad de Ciencias Marinas. Sin embargo, entreverada en esta historia de realización de tesis -que hasta la fecha no lée mi mamá-, se asoma lo que considero el es...
Ethnomedicinal research has historically focussed on botanical products, ignoring, by and at large, the records on animal-based medicine. Whenever non-botanical remedies appear on indigenous pharmacopoeias, these are taken with little interest and are explained as de facto - i.e. “They occur because they occur-” This lack of interest impedes ethnob...
The Baja California peninsula exhibits a high rate of marine mammal strandings involving dead and living animals. Stranded mammals represent a potential threat to human health in communities near the coastline. Due to the interaction with these animals, people are at risk to an attack or to be exposed to diseases that are contagious to man. Therefo...
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This paper explores how new professional identities emerge from collective rituals held in the contextualization of school celebrations. Our discussion is built upon the specific context of the ritual called Semana del Oceanólogo held each year by bachelor students from the Marine Sciences Department at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California,...
The Gulf of California is a multifaceted "hotspot" of biodiversity, where a variety of terrestrial and marine environments meet. The region's natural and social histories and proximity to the US-Mexico international border make the Gulf an attractive place for social scientists. The complex interactions between people and the environment make this...
