Political ecology(ies) from the South/Abya-Yala

Since 2000, the CLACSO Working Group Political Ecology(ies) from the South/Abya-Yala Latin America has been building a field of theoretical-practical knowledge based on the dialogue of knowledges

among more than 200 academics, researchers and activists from various disciplines and located in different countries of Central America, the Caribbean and South America, and a variety of collective subjects who are defending their livelihoods against the advance of all kinds of capitalist, colonialist and patriarchal projects.

This Political Ecology is indebted to Latin American history and critical thought, based on the approach to society-nature relations under an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective built at the intersection of environmental and political history, political economy, critical geography, cultural studies, Latin American indigenism and Southern environmental thought, seeking to settle accounts with the past, expand the present and design alternatives.

Since its emergence, this group has been forming an active network of permanent exchange and feedback with the very diverse movements and struggles that defend their territories at different scales and circumstances, collecting criticisms of the hegemonic development models and outlining with them other possible futures.

Some lines of research

• Political and economic crisis, with the rise of authoritarianism
• Ecofeminisms and women's struggles against extractivism
• Energy Transition and Climate Injustice in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Movements for Environmental Justice, Water Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Political Ecology(ies) from the Global South

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