Publications
Our published works.
If you cannot reach any of our work through Google Scholar, write to us for a copy. Several pieces are open access; those are marked where they appear below.
Selected publications organized around our four lines of inquiry.
Each theme corresponds to a research line. Use the buttons on the right of each row to open the publication at its journal, publisher, or repository of record. If you cannot access one of our works, please write us and we will happily send you a copy. Also, note that the list below is not exclusive of all our work. Please see Google Scholar for more details.
Theme 01
Climate & environmental justice
We study how climate and environmental politics and actions produce differential benefits and harms for affected groups.
Our works examine climate adaptation, loss and damage policy, climate finance, how climate mitigation programs function, while critically rethinking politics and possibility of environmental justice.
Engaging nature: Public Political Ecology for Transformative Climate Justice.
Land matters: How Indigenous land restitution can inform climate change loss and damage policy and chart a path toward an otherwise climate justice.
A political ecology of jurisdictional REDD+: Investigating social-environmentalism, climate change mitigation, and environmental (in)justice in the Brazilian Amazon.
Between flood and drought: Environmental racism, settler waterscapes, and Indigenous water justice in South America's Chaco.
Theme 02
Indigenous rights to land & territory
We study processes of dispossession, resistance, resurgence, and the politics of self-determination.
Our work considers the politics of recognition and its limits in law, from Inter-American Court jurisprudence, the limits of liberal notions of justice, and the territorial strategies through which communities defend and reclaim land.
From Colonial Natures to Entangled Ecologies: Making Do and Relational Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence in the Chaco.
The elusive promise of Indigenous land rights in Paraguay: Achievements, challenges, current trends.
Reworking recognition: Indigeneity, land rights, and the dialectics of disruption in Paraguay's Chaco.
Unsettling territory: Indigenous mobilizations, the territorial turn, and limits of land rights in the Paraguay-Brazil borderlands.
Indigenous rights at a crossroads: Territorial struggles, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and legal geographies of liminality.
Theme 03
Political ecologies of development
We study natures, extractivism, power, and access.
Our works examine how large-scale infrastructure, agrarian expansion, and different forms of extraction reshape frontier political economies and with what effects on socio-natures and the politics of environmental data and knowledge production.
Demo-cartographic imaginaries: How dilemmas of data and erasure reveal latent authoritarianism and threats to Indigenous land rights in Paraguay.
Ruptures and continuities: How the global land "rush" (re)produces the slow violence of racial capitalism on Latin America's resource frontiers.
Infrastructures of settler colonialism: Geographies of violence, Indigenous labor, and marginal resistance in Paraguay's Chaco.
Soy states: Resource politics, agrarian change, and violent environments in Paraguay.
Arrested infrastructure: Roadwork, rights, racialized geographies.
Theme 04
Biocultural conservation
We study processes of stewardship, reciprocity, and self-determination enacted through human-environment relations.
Our works examines and advances biocultural approaches to conservation through careful attention to diverse stewardship practices, forms of reciprocity, and alternatives that can support more just practices to care for people, the planet, biodiversity, and vital social-ecological relations.
On tap, not on top: An urgent call for academia to support Indigenous science and equitable conservation.
Biocultural geographies: Stewardship, Indigenous territories, and conservation in Ecuador's Amazon.
Stimulating reciprocity: How human-plant relations support Indigenous cultural revitalization and stewardship in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Amazonian conservation across archipelagoes of Indigenous territories.
Human and nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems.
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