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Books
2023
2023. Correia, J.E. Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous Land Rights and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Paraguay’s Chaco. Oakland: University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/disrupting-the-patron/epub-pdf
Academic Articles & Book Chapters
2026
In-press. Anthias, P., Correia, J.E., Asher, K. Querying Nature and (Anti-/De-) Coloniality. Antipode.
2026 Saavedra, F., Buschbacher, R., Nemogá-Soto, G.R., Alvira, D., Athayde, S., Campbell, J.M., Chavez Michaelsen, A.B., Corntassel, J.G., Correia, J.E., et al. On tap, not on top: An urgent call for academia to support Indigenous science and equitable conservation. Earth Stewardship. DOI: 10.1002/eas2.70038.
2026 Correia, J.E. and Dermott, C. From Colonial Natures to Entangled Ecologies: Making Do and Relational Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence in the Chaco. Antipode, 58: e70048. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70048.
2025
2025 Correia, J.E. and Galeana, F.R. Anti-colonial environmental justice in, of, and from Latin America: An Introduction. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2025.2518709.
2025 Teixidor-Toneu, I., Fernández-Llamazares, Á., Alvarez Abel, R., Batdelger, G., Caillon, S., Cantor, M., Correia, J.E., Díaz, S., Fisk, J., Greene, A., Greening, S., Hoyte, S., Kalle, R., Loayza, G., Mattalia, G., Montufar Galarraga, R.J., Ojeda, J., Phatthanaphraiwan, S., Srinakharinwirot, V., and Ban, N. Human and nature relationships through the lens of reciprocity: Insights from Indigenous and local knowledge systems. People and Nature https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70036.
2025 Correia, J.E., Walker, R., Simmons, C., Urgiles, C. Payguaje, Y., Yiyocuro, L. Payaguaje, E., Quenama, A., Navarro, N., Payaguaje, H., Acevedo, *Manning, M., M. Esbach, M. Biocultural geographies: Stewardship, Indigenous territories, and conservation in Ecuador’s Amazon. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2025.2511942.
2025 Correia, J.E., Piaguaje, J., Weiss, L., Narváez, N., Lucitante, L., Biaguaje, A., Piaguaje, Y., Suale, A., Payaguaje, A., Simmons, C., Esbach, M. Stimulating reciprocity: How human-plant relations support Indigenous cultural revitalization and stewardship in the Ecuadorian Amazon. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70019
2025 Esbach, M. Correia, J.E. Valdivia, G. and Lu, F. Amazonian conservation across archipelagoes of Indigenous territories. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14407.
2025 Correia, J.E. Demo-cartographic imaginaries: How dilemmas of data and erasure reveal latent authoritarianism and threats to Indigenous land rights in Paraguay. Latin American Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X251327410.
2025 Correia, J.E., Villagra Carron, R., and Glauser, M. The elusive promise of Indigenous land rights in Paraguay: Achievements, challenges, current trends. In Land Rights Now: Global Voices on Indigenous Peoples and Land Justice. In Nikolaikis, W. ed. Pp. 27-49. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/land-rights-now/7A2F630B8D2E0BF800D852983AC4D3E8#fndtn-information.
2024
2024 Correia, J.E. and Osborne, T. Public political ecology for climate and environmental justice. Doing Political Ecology. Simon, G. and Kay, K. eds. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003165477.
2024 Glauser, M., Maria de la Cruz, L., Basabe, C., Villagra, R., Correia, J.E. Monitoreo de derechos territoriales y ambientales de comunidades indígenas en el Chaco Paraguayo: logros y desafíos del Observatorio de Cambios Ambientales. (Monitoring the territorial and environmental rights of Indigenous peoples in the Paraguayan Chaco: Successes and challenges from the Environmental Change Observatory) Suplemento Antropológico.
2024 Correia, J.E. Land matters: How Indigenous land restitution can inform climate chang loss and damage policy and chart a path toward an otherwise climate justice. Climate and Development. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17565529.2024.2378027.
2023
2023 Correia, J.E. Ruptures and continuities: How the global land “rush” (re)produces the slow violence of racial capitalism on Latin America’s resource frontiers. In The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing. Neef, A., Ngin, C., Moreda, T., and Mollett, S. eds. London: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003080916-5/ruptures-continuities-joel-correia?context=ubx&refId=7886045c-3a3e-47bb-914f-4c6fd0ac3ab2.
2022
2022 Correia, J.E. Between flood and drought: Environmental racism, settler waterscapes, and Indigenous water justice in South America’s Chaco. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 112(7): 1890-1910. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2040351.
2022 *Rocha da Silva, M.S. and Correia, J.E. A political ecology of jurisdictional REDD+: Investigating social-environmentalism, climate change mitigation, and environmental (in)justice in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Political Ecology 29(1): 123-142. https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.4713.
Winner of 2021 Eric Wolf Prize from the Political Ecology Society for best paper in political ecology.
2022 Correia, J.E. Geographies of Latin American social-environmental movements: Defending territories and lifeways in the face of violent extractivism. In The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements. Grasso, M. and Giugni, M. eds. pp. 63-79. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855680.
2021
2021 Correia, J.E. Reworking recognition: Indigeneity, land rights, and the dialectics of disruption in Paraguay’s Chaco. Geoforum 119: 227-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.11.014.
2021 Correia, J.E. All the land was stolen: Following counter-topographies of Indigenous rights through legal geography and critical environmental justice. In Handbook on Space, Place, and Law. Bartel, R. and Carter, J. eds. Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 38-48. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977203.00013.
2021 Correia, J.E. Infrastructures of settler colonialism: Geographies of violence, Indigenous labor, and marginal resistance in Paraguay’s Chaco. In Reimagining the Gran Chaco: Contemporary Perspectives on Identities, Politics and the Environment in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. Hirsch, S., Canova, P., and Biocca, M. eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. pp. 166-185.
2020
2020 Correia, J.E. Territories of Latin American Geography. Journal of Latin American Geography 19(1): 132-140. https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.2020.0018.
2019
2019 Correia, J.E. Unsettling territory: Indigenous mobilizations, the territorial turn, and limits of land rights in the Paraguay-Brazil borderlands. Journal of Latin American Geography 18(1): 11-37. https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.2019.0001.
2019 Correia, J.E. Arrested infrastructure: Roadwork, rights, racialized geographies. Roadsides: 14-24. https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-20190023.
2019 Correia, J.E. Soy states: Resource politics, agrarian change, and violent environments in Paraguay. Journal of Peasant Studies 46(2): 316-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2017.1384726.
2018
2018 Correia, J.E. Indigenous rights at a crossroads: Territorial struggles, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and legal geographies of liminality. Geoforum 97: 73-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.10.013.
2018 Correia, J.E. Adjudication and its aftereffects in three Inter-American Court cases brought before Paraguay: Indigenous land rights. Erasmus Law Review 11(1): 43-56. https://doi.org/10.5553/ELR.000102.
Articles and Book Chapters Translated to Spanish and Published in Latin America
2025 Correia, Joel E. Infraestructuras del colonialismo de colonización: geografías de la violencia, trabajo indígena y resistencia marginal en el Chaco paraguayo. In Reimaginando el Gran Chaco sudamericano: Perspectivas contemporáneas sobre identidades, políticas y el territorio. Biocca, M., Canova, P., and Hirsch. S. eds. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Biblos.
2020 Correia, J.E. Descolonizar el territorio: Movimientos sociales indígenas, el giro territorial y los límites de los derechos a la tierra en la zona fronteriza entre Paraguay y Brasil. Etnografías Contemporáneas 6(11): 160-188. https://revistasacademicas.unsam.edu.ar/index.php/etnocontemp/article/view/540.
Book Reviews
2024 Correia, J.E. Territory and sovereignty reimagined: A reading of subterranean matters. Journal of Latin American Geography 23 (2): 181-183. https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.2024.a939030.
2019 Correia, J.E., McEwan, C., Bryan, J., and Anthias, P. Book review: Limits to decolonization: Indigeneity, territory, and hydrocarbon politics in the Bolivian Chaco. Human Geography 12(3): 57-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/194277861901200301. I coordinated and co-edited this book review symposium.
Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous land rights and the fight for environmental justice in Paraguay’s Chaco
As a 2021 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, Joel completed his first book that University of California Press published in April 2023. The work builds from long-term research with Enxet and Sanapaná in Paraguay’s Chaco. The project traces the formation of racial geographies that result from settler colonialism and its extractive imperative yet attends to the future-oriented resistance of Indigenous peoples who are renewing relations with territories once stolen through the pursuit of environmental justice.
The e-book is available for free reading and downloads here.