Hacia una descolonización de la Biodiversity Heritage Library

Lidia Ponce-de la Vega

doi:10.22201/fesa.figuras.2021.2.2.145

Authors

Lidia Ponce-de la Vega McGill University Canada https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6905-0247

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fesa.figuras.2021.2.2.145

Keywords:

Digital archives, BHL, Biodiversity, Metadata, Decolonization, Digital agenda

Abstract

This critique introduces the PhD thesis “Virtual Biodiversities and Digital Knowledges”, a critical study of the digital library Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) which seeks to understand the epistemic construction in the matter of Latin American biodiversity in order to advance the digital decolonization agenda and promote an ethical approach to the narratives of the region and its human and non-human inhabitants.

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Author Biography

Lidia Ponce-de la Vega, McGill University

Originally from Mexico City, she is currently a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She holds a degree with Honors in Hispanic Language and Literature from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a Master’s in Hispanic Studies from McGill University. She is the recipient of the “Gabino Barreda” Medal, awarded by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and the “Victor Ouimette Memorial” Award and the Frank & Judith Kunz Fellowship in Humanities from McGill University.

She has worked as a Research Assistant in several palaeographic and modernized editions of colonial texts at the Universidad Autónoma de México and as an Instructor of Digital Studies and Instructor of Spanish Language at McGill University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Latin American studies, ecocriticism and the digital humanities, especially with regard to the epistemic (de)colonization of Latin American nature and biodiversity in digital archives.

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