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Virginia Mendoza and Rafael Navarro de Castro with Adriana Cooper

Writing and nature

Jericó 2025, 

Three authors who reflect on our relationship with nature in their writings will talk to Adriana Cooper. Virginia Mendoza (Spain), journalist and anthropologist, is the author of La sed, an incisive investigation into water as an engine of civilisation, and the catastrophic social consequences of its lack. Rafael Navarro (Spain) sociologist, farmer and ecological activist, is the author of Planeta invernadero, a novel about an agricultural engineer who decides to make a change in her life.

Virginia Mendoza and Rafael Navarro de Castro with Adriana Cooper