Step Away

Authors

  • Kata Beilin University of Wisconsin–Madison

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-springs-18742

Abstract

Eve, a renowned professor of environmental law, has achieved academic success and international recognition, yet feels an emptiness beneath her busy life. Soon after beginning therapy and discovering through meditation that the “self” is an illusion, she accepts an invitation to a seminar on environmental conflicts in the Amazonian jungle. There she meets Ené, a Waorani lawyer who invites her to her village—where the boundaries between both women blur, transforming Eve in ways she could have never anticipated.

Author Biography

  • Kata Beilin, University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Kata Beilin is a former RCC Fellow and a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She specializes in the environmental humanities and Indigenous studies in the Hispanic world. Her current project, “The Return of the Maya Moment,” funded by a Fulbright Fellowship, explores the Yucatec Maya resistance as nourished by their philosophy of nature. Previously, she conducted research in Argentina, Paraguay, and Ecuador, where she met Waorani People.

Photo by Kata Beilin. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Published

04-11-2025

Issue

No. 8 (2025)

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