“Take care of the environment!” Mural in San José De Otates, Guanajuato, México on Guamares land
Foto por Cristina Faiver-Serna al rancho de su familia/Photo by Cristina Faiver-Serna in her family’s hometown
Photo of Cristina Faiver-Serna taken by Caitlin Matte @caitlinmattephotography on N’dakinna at University of New Hampshire
My name is Cristina Faiver-Serna and I am a first-gen Chicana feminist and critical race geographer. My scholarly areas of expertise include environmental justice, public health policy and practice, women of color feminisms, feminist science studies, and critical ethnic studies. I am an Assistant Professor of Geography and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire on Penacook, Wabanaki, and Abenaki lands and waterways.
My most recent publication “Latinx Geographies: Opening Conversations” (2023) is published in ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. This piece was collaboratively written with my colegxs, or colleagues, in Latinx Geographies. The piece reflects on the scholarly and intellectual foundations of the emerging subfield of Latinx Geographies (LxG). LxG has become a scholarly home for academics, researchers, and writers whose work is forged at the intersection of Chicanx and Latinx studies, Chicana, Latina, Indigenous, and Black feminisms, and critical human geography. This piece first developed during virtual cafecitos, or coffee hours, during the pandemic, and grew out into this article, as well as other forthcoming projects the collective is currently working on. Some of my other solo-authored and collaboratively written published work can be found in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, The Professional Geographer, Society and Space Magazine, and Key Thinkers on Space and Place. Explore my publications here.
“Do you have a moment to talk about collective care?” is a zine co-created by students in Professor Faiver-Serna’s Women’s and Gender Studies 798/898 Spring 2023 capstone course
In my Notebook I share about my most recently taught class at the University of New Hampshire in spring 2023. The course, “Feminist Geographies of Care Work and Praxes,” explored what it means to practice care rooted in feminist theory with each other in the classroom and beyond, and critically examined care as a scalar and intentional practice against the grain of patriarchal, racist, and classist institutional and structural norms. For their final project, my students co-produced a zine “Do you have a moment to talk about collective care?” Read the zine and my reflections on the course in my latest post.