Nestor Silva
COLLEGE Lecturer
Stanford Introductory Studies - Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Bio
Before beginning my PhD studies, I spent nearly a decade working in K-12 education with a focus on consulting/tutoring for special needs students and their families, people ranging from the ultra-wealthy to the undocumented, work which shapes my approach to both teaching and research. For the last two years of my doctoral program, I was a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity. I earned my PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Stanford in June 2022.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Stanford Introductory Studies - Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
My research on the environmental politics of hydrocarbon extraction in Ecuador focused on the relationship between Indigenous people and leftist national government committed to environmental protection, multiculturalism, and hydrocarbon extraction. In work on the Colombian llanos, I address the environmental politics of people who identify as farmers and hydrocarbon industry employees in a region marked not only by civil conflict but also by colonial and developmental imaginaries of the state.
That Latin American research was foundational my dissertation fieldwork based in the small town of Tioga in northwestern North Dakota’s Bakken region, characterized by farmland fracking. Social and ecological uncertainties are inherent to this juxtaposition of extraction and agriculture, which is maintained by landowners, officials, scientists, and industry personnel. My book project analyzes the environmental politics of fracking and their implications in a number of socioecological issues far beyond rural, conservative, and pro-oil North Dakota.
2024-25 Courses
- Citizenship in the 21st Century
COLLEGE 102 (Win) - The Ethical Challenges of the Global Climate Crisis
COLLEGE 111 (Spr) - Why College? Your Education and the Good Life
COLLEGE 101 (Aut) -
Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Citizenship in the 21st Century
COLLEGE 102 (Win) - The Ethical Challenges of the Global Climate Crisis
COLLEGE 111 (Spr) - Why College? Your Education and the Good Life
COLLEGE 101 (Aut)
2022-23 Courses
- Citizenship in the 21st Century
COLLEGE 102 (Win) - Preventing Human Extinction
COLLEGE 107 (Spr) - Why College? Your Education and the Good Life
COLLEGE 101 (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- CSRE Senior Seminar
CSRE 200X (Aut)
- Citizenship in the 21st Century
All Publications
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Beyond Petrotoxic Apparatuses
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY-ADVANCES IN RESEARCH
2021; 12 (1): 127-145
View details for DOI 10.3167/ares.2021.120108
View details for Web of Science ID 000694051100008
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Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador: Treks into the Future of Time (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY
2018; 23 (3): 593–95
View details for DOI 10.1111/jlca.12370
View details for Web of Science ID 000454290800012
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Life in Oil: Cofan Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia (Book Review)
JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY
2018; 17 (3): 270–73
View details for DOI 10.1353/lag.2018.0057
View details for Web of Science ID 000450724800020
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"Jodidisimos": The Local Politics of Hydrocarbon Acceptance in Colombia's Eastern Plains
JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY
2018; 17 (3): 132–52
View details for DOI 10.1353/lag.2018.0044
View details for Web of Science ID 000450724800007
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Neoextractivism and Its Contestation in Ecuador
OIL, REVOLUTION, AND INDIGENOUS CITIZENSHIP IN ECUADORIAN AMAZONIA
2017: 179-227
View details for DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53362-3_6
View details for Web of Science ID 000416453700006
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In and Out of the Shadows of Citizenship
OIL, REVOLUTION, AND INDIGENOUS CITIZENSHIP IN ECUADORIAN AMAZONIA
2017: 35-68
View details for DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53362-3_2
View details for Web of Science ID 000416453700002
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The Problem of Poverty
OIL, REVOLUTION, AND INDIGENOUS CITIZENSHIP IN ECUADORIAN AMAZONIA
2017: 101-129
View details for DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53362-3_4
View details for Web of Science ID 000416453700004
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The Habits of Oil Rule
OIL, REVOLUTION, AND INDIGENOUS CITIZENSHIP IN ECUADORIAN AMAZONIA
2017: 69-99
View details for DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53362-3_3
View details for Web of Science ID 000416453700003
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The Road to the Revolucion Ciudadana
OIL, REVOLUTION, AND INDIGENOUS CITIZENSHIP IN ECUADORIAN AMAZONIA
2017: 1-32
View details for DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53362-3_1
View details for Web of Science ID 000416453700001
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Oil as Risk in Waorani Territory
OIL, REVOLUTION, AND INDIGENOUS CITIZENSHIP IN ECUADORIAN AMAZONIA
2017: 133-178
View details for DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53362-3_5
View details for Web of Science ID 000416453700005
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Oil Flux and Unrest
OIL, REVOLUTION, AND INDIGENOUS CITIZENSHIP IN ECUADORIAN AMAZONIA
2017: 265-286
View details for DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53362-3_8
View details for Web of Science ID 000416453700008
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Human Rights and People in Voluntary Isolation
OIL, REVOLUTION, AND INDIGENOUS CITIZENSHIP IN ECUADORIAN AMAZONIA
2017: 229-263
View details for DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53362-3_7
View details for Web of Science ID 000416453700007
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Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Risks and Tenables among Native Amazonians in Northeastern Ecuador
HUMAN ORGANIZATION
2014; 73 (4): 375-388
View details for Web of Science ID 000345516100008