Diana Pardo
Anonymous, "Ecology of trouble", contributed by Diana Pardo Pedraza, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 23 February 2020, accessed 28 March 2024. http://centerforethnography.org/content/ecology-trouble
Critical Commentary
This image evokes what I have called ecology of trouble: Beyond improvised explosive devices, outside the limits of humanitarian demining, there are more forces, albeit latently and out-of-sight, killing campesinos and rural life in El Orejón: state abandonment, extractivism, privatization, land dispossession, coca growing, paramilitarism, and even mine clearance.
Landmines are part of ecology of trouble that rural communities have faced and continue to face. Landmines are intertwined in networks that transcend the enactment of crises and emergencies and these networks would remain even if the mines are removed or even because of their absence.