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My dream job

 Hello everyone! Today I am going to tell you about my dream job. I don't really know what area of geography I would like to work in, however I would like to work outside of Santiago, in the south of Chile, in a rural or urban area.  In a rural place I imagine that I will work in an organization that does field work, maybe risk and socio-environmental vulnerability studies, or working with communities helping to address water scarcity, or in indigenous territories contributing in their struggle for recognition and respect and care for nature.  In an urban area I would like to work with informal territories, working to end housing inequality, for social and environmental justice.  I would like to always be able to work in the field and hopefully never in an office, to travel a lot doing studies of geomorphology and biogeography always with the objective of contributing to the community. As for the salary, I would really like to earn enough to live peacefully, more for...

Crochet Knitting

Hello everyone! Today I'd like to tell you about one of my hobbies, which is crochet knitting. The first time I picked up a crochet needle was when I was a little girl, however I didn't start knitting until I was about nineteen years old. I started by knitting small squares guided by youtube tutorials, then scarves, hats and mittens. It was then that I began to understand that there were different types of material to knit: wool for warm clothes, yarn blends with wool for spring garments, and finally I discovered the wonderful cotton yarn. Cotton yarn, besides being useful for many things, is used to make "amigurumis", a type of weaving (I think Japanese) with which you can create figures like animals, dolls and whatever you want! I started knitting everything I could imagine with this technique, and when I had my daughter I decided to create for her a collection of powerful women and native animals, that's what I try to do now, although I really have little time....

Water scarcity: beyond drought.

Hello! today I want to talk to you about an area of study in geography, which is my career. Water scarcity concerns several areas of geography, on the one hand those that are dedicated to water, also those that study territories, also social and political geography and on the other hand, closely related to environmental geography. First of all, it is important to say that water scarcity is obviously related to a climatic factor, which is evidenced in the form of drought, a product of climate change that can be seen worldwide.  However, the concept of water scarcity is not only related to the "lack of water", but also to the political management and the context of productive social relations that sustain this lack of water for the affected territories and populations. The concept of "socially constructed" water scarcity then emerges, in that sense, we study and work with the ways in which social factors determine or exacerbate the way in which certain territories mus...