SOLCHA Prize 2019
SOLCHA Prize for Best Paper on Latin American Environmental History for "Ghost Acres – or the dynamics of disposing oil production wastes in the Ecuadorean Amazon"
Maximilian Feichtner receiving the SOLCHA prize, cc Jonas Stuck.
For the first time, the Latin American and Caribbean Society for Environmental History SOLCHA awarded a distinction for “Best Paper on Latin American Environmental History that transcends a National Perspective” at the 3rd World Congress of Environmental History in Florianópolis, Brasil, in July 2019. Maximilian Feichtner's talk on “Ghost Acres” problematized the waste management practices of the Texaco Petroleum Company in the Ecuadorean Amazon region from the 1970s to 1990s. Maximilian studied Texaco's practices of externalization through his framework of toxic ghost acres, examining waste pits as their most tangible materialization in the Amazon. A revised version of the talk was published with Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña (HALAC).