This panel explores how Latin American and Latine writers, filmmakers, and artists engage environmental elements as dynamic forces shaping human experience, identity, and social life. Grounded in the environmental humanities, the panel examines how cultural production renders visible the entanglements between ecological conditions and forms of movement, including migration, displacement, circulation, and transformation across human and more-than-human worlds.

In many Latine and Latin American narratives, environmental change and ecological crisis intersect with processes of mobility and uneven access to resources. These works often depict the environment not as a passive backdrop but as intimately involved in shaping affect, belonging, and survival. At the same time, precarious ecological conditions can become sites of resistance, where communities reimagine relationality and collective futures in the face of displacement and environmental precarity.

This panel invites scholars (of any stage and discipline)  to examine the relationships between environmental forces and/or migration in Latine/Latin American cultural production. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 

• How do narratives of environment and mobility engage with memory, temporality, or histories of land use, dispossession, and resistance?
• What aesthetic or formal strategies are used to render environmental crisis and its lived effects within Latin American and Latine cultural production?
• How are ecological forces—such as drought, flooding, pollution, or climate change—depicted as agents of transformation in social, political, and relational worlds?
• In what ways do environmental conditions reshape notions of belonging, community, and identity under conditions of precarity or displacement?

Submission link: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/User/SubmitAbstract/20163