Ysabel Munoz - NTNU

About

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Ysabel Muñoz is a PhD candidate in English Literature in the Department of Language and Literature, where she works with the transdisciplinary project Narrating Sustainability. She holds a bachelor in Letters from the University of Havana (2017). In 2020, she received a Chevening scholarship to complete the MLitt. Environment, Culture and Communication at the University of Glasgow (2021).

Muñoz is an environmental humanities scholar whose research interests include Caribbean culture, material ecocriticism, ecofeminism, post/decolonial studies and affect theory. As an activist, she has written several articles and participated in campaigns and conferences working towards sustainability in the Caribbean context.

Research

Narrating Sustainability

Publications

NATION, TOXICITY, AND CARE: EXPLORING CHEMICAL KINSHIP IN CUBA’S LATEST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER

Pollution as a widespread phenomenon on the Cuban island has received less academic attention from the humanities and social sciences. This article reflects on this "dirty" side of the story, and the relations made visible in the Matanzas explosions.

Swimming with Trash in the Caribbean

The Caribbean art invites us to consider human stress on natural environments and nature’s capacity to cope with a trend of accelerated consumerism, when terrestrial and marine landscapes are substituted with threatening images of wastescapes.

Permaculture in Cuba. Designing Sustainability

Permaculture focuses on human habitat design and farming methods which mimic the relationships found in the patterns of nature. Its central axes are food production, energy supply, landscape design and the organization of (infra) social structures.

2022

Munoz Martinez, Ysabel Olga. (2022) Gardening in Polluted Tropics: The Materiality of Waste and Toxicity in Olive Senior’s Caribbean Poetry. eTropic. volum 21 (2).
Academic article

Scientific articles

Munoz Martinez, Ysabel Olga. (2022) Gardening in Polluted Tropics: The Materiality of Waste and Toxicity in Olive Senior’s Caribbean Poetry. eTropic. volum 21 (2).
Academic article