Children First: perspectives from Fuego
Reasoning With Volcanoes
by reasoningwithvolcanoes
6M ago
Hello all, As always, it’s been a while since I posted! I wanted to write a (very short) piece to commemorate the recent publication of our study on Fuego. The lead author is Dr. Beth Bartel, an exceptional researcher and friend whose path intersected with mine while living in Guatemala in 2021 – 22. Our study, “Children First: women’s perspectives on evacuation at Fuego volcano and implications for disaster risk reduction“, was published in Frontiers in Earth Science as part of a dedicated Research Topic, “Women in Science: Volcanology 2022“. (Eagle-eyed readers will note that the year is 202 ..read more
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Sight Unseen: responses and interactions
Reasoning With Volcanoes
by reasoningwithvolcanoes
10M ago
This is my second blog post on my research project, “Sight Unseen: Using creative methods to co-develop experiences of eruption at Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala”. The main aim of the project is to use creative methods to capture and explore older people’s memories of past eruptions of the active Fuego volcano in Guatemala. While my first post describes my process in making the zines, this post explores my original questions and eventual outcomes of the research, and the (mis)matches between the two. In this post, I want to reflect on the original questions that motivated this research and the res ..read more
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Sight Unseen: Making a zine of Fuego volcano
Reasoning With Volcanoes
by reasoningwithvolcanoes
1y ago
In this blog post, I share the process of making a zine for my research project, “Sight Unseen: Using creative methods to co-develop experiences of eruption at Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala”. The main aim of the project is to use creative methods to capture and explore older people’s memories of past eruptions of the active Fuego volcano in southern Guatemala. I promised that through this project, I would deliver a “zine” of these memories, and that I would also blog about it. Voila! This first blog post consists of the following sections: Inspiration and context; How did I make the zine?; Timeli ..read more
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Research progress!
Reasoning With Volcanoes
by reasoningwithvolcanoes
1y ago
This is a very brief post to highlight a short summary report I wrote on a piece of my work. The project is titled, “Investigating spatial distribution and impacts of airfall deposits from the October 1974 eruptive episode of Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala“, and uses a mix of stratigraphic and participatory mapping, qualitative interviews, and archival analysis to understand the impacts of the October 1974 eruption of Fuego volcano on communities and plantations near the volcano. In this click-through link here, you can find the project and choose to follow updates. I have been generously supporte ..read more
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Al Contrario
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by reasoningwithvolcanoes
2y ago
It’s so long since I’ve been away so long that I forgot what it was like – reverse culture shock. Being back in Bristol is at turns an enjoyable daydream and a slow dislocation from my surroundings. I sit at pubs and in parks with faces and bodies that for months I met only across a fuzzy screen – now they coalesce into spirits lit by colour and live in stereo sound. And the next day, I’m the one behind glass: dancing at a party when suddenly the set changes and I feel the strangeness of the people here, who are all exotically tall and pale and look just like me. I follow my internal StreetVie ..read more
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The Little Prince and its unlikely inspirations
Reasoning With Volcanoes
by reasoningwithvolcanoes
2y ago
“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” C. S. Lewis One of my favourite books is The Little Prince. It’s also the first book that I read in Spanish. I remember quite clearly how I came across it. I had just arrived in Quito, and was learning the city by navigating the streets each day. Once I walked past an open stall of books, and there it was. At the time I thought only about how I loved the simple illustrations and odd characters, and that it might suit someone trying to get to grips with a new language; think ..read more
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Legados y leyendas, y un camarón volcánico
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by reasoningwithvolcanoes
2y ago
“Fueron dos veces fuertes. Dos erupciones fuertes hubieron … la primerita fuera la que más nos asustó. Porque no habíamos visto esa clase de erupción. Solamente … ya estabamos acostumbrados. Yo desde cuando nací, yo creo que ya el volcán estaba haciendo erupción. Pero solo se bañaba en fuego, así, ¡que bonito el volcán! Podía uno caminar aquí – no había luz, todavía no había luz publica, nada, nada, con candelas en las casitas – pero aquí podía uno caminar con la claridad del volcán. Y en la claridad una roja de donde uno podía estar jugando así en la oscuridad, pues, con la claridad ..read more
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Legacy and legend, and a volcanic prawn
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by reasoningwithvolcanoes
2y ago
“There were two desperate times. Two strong eruptions … the first was the one that most scared us. Because we had not seen this type of eruption. Only … we were already used to it. I believe the volcano was already erupting since when I was born. But it only bathed itself in fire, just like that, how beautiful the volcano was! One could walk – there was no electricity here, no public lighting, nothing, nothing, only candles in the little houses – but here one could walk by the light of the volcano. In a red light by which one could be playing in the darkness, in the light of the volcano.” Joa ..read more
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I’m oven it like that
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by reasoningwithvolcanoes
2y ago
I can’t remember who first proposed we should see the ovens above Panimaché Dos. Perhaps it was my friend Arelis, before she left with Beth to speak to Doña Elena. I had chosen to stay behind, to talk with Arelis’s mother, Marta, about her memories of Fuego’s 1974 eruption. My ears pricked up in interest. The ovens?, I asked. Ruins from the big eruption. Hidden in the fields above this village, they responded. I had never been higher in Panimaché Dos than to the paddock where I had interviewed Doña Ana two years ago, and had never thought there to be any more to it. So when Doña Marta and ..read more
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Guatemala Vuelta
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by reasoningwithvolcanoes
2y ago
“Geology is too important to be left to geologists.” – Patrick Corbett Guatemala. Although by name the land of many trees, I encourage you to consider it fauna not flora. You will find it alive and bristling, breathing its hot breath. From its sinuous green skin spring spines of sheer earth, steep and sharp. The spines punctuate the beast’s iridescent green back in a chain weaving north-west to south-east. Look closer. This green is not harmonious or uniform, but instead an undulating hide of shifting scales and accords. Borders shimmer into and out of being with every turn under the sun. Look ..read more
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