Assistant Professor Instituto de Estudios Antropológicos Universidad Austral de Chile
Cari Tusing’s current research project examines Lafkenche Mapuche foodways and material knowledge and practices in Southern Chile. She also studies the impacts and aftermaths of land titling in indigenous Guarani and campesino communities in northern Paraguay, along the Brazilian border. Across her research, she pays specific attention to indigenous and campesino perceptions of the shifting ecological and cultural landscapes, mediated by their understandings of ownership, property, and land stewardship. Her areas of interest are rural livelihoods, land politics and dispossession, indigenous epistemologies, political ecology, memories of (political-natural) disasters, oral history, and ethnography.
Dr. Cari Tusing will guide the Supply Chain Capitalism: Transformations of Rural Landscapes in Latin America workshop together with Dr. Stine Krøijer from Department of Anthropology University at the Copenhagen
