(Yerba) Mate is bittersweet: Narrating the power, silences and changes of history
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ford-Smith, Honor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gomez, Maria Flora | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-14T20:25:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-14T20:25:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-08-31 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Yerba mate is a tree that can only be grown in the Selva Paranaense region, located across the colonial borders between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Its leaves are used to prepare an infusion that is widely consumed in these countries. In Argentina, the average annual consumption of yerba mate is 6 kilos per person. The country is the main exporter and the one with most hectares destined for yerba mate production in total. But why do Argentinians drink so much yerba mate? Many yerba mate drinkers ignore the Indigenous origins of the drink. Currently the yerba mate industry is associated with specific socio-environmental problems related to the way yerba mate is produced, consumed, and commercialized. I argue that these issues are correlated with the present official narratives of yerba mate that have erased its Indigenous origins. This project explores, through narration or storytelling, the power, silences and changes in the official narratives of yerba mate from its origin to the current ways of consumption in Argentina and North America. These silences and challenges are a result of the process of colonization and the advance of the global capitalist model. The outcome of this project is a portfolio comprised of a written essay and a collection of audio-visual stories. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Major Portfolio, Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/40038 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | colonisation, | en_US |
| dc.subject | nation | en_US |
| dc.subject | identity-making | en_US |
| dc.subject | Storytelling | en_US |
| dc.subject | power | en_US |
| dc.subject | official narrative | en_US |
| dc.title | (Yerba) Mate is bittersweet: Narrating the power, silences and changes of history | en_US |
| dc.type | Major portfolio | en_US |
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