Publications

Castro, A., Prádanos, L.. 2022. Retos estéticos del postdesarrollo: imaginarios no extractivos y futuros postfósiles en medios culturales andinos. Post-Global Aesthetics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110762143-010

Castro, A. 2022. Vernacular sustainabilities—multispecies stories and life-death entanglements of the sertão nordestino in contemporary Brazilian futurisms (the film Bacurau and the sertãopunk comic Cangaço Overdrive). Humanities. https://doi.org/10.3390/h11020050

In northeastern Brazil, a region with extreme droughts and the smallest rainfall index in the whole country, water sources are crucial to ensure the survival of humans and nonhumans in this semi-arid region, known as sertão nordestino. Since the mid-twentieth century, classical cultural expressions focusing on this area have emphasized poverty in a desert of dry vegetation. Unlike romanticized portrayals of the backland in the...