Our work is motivated by the notion that through collaborative, collective, and engaged research we can find ways to support the wellbeing of people and the planet. Four basic principles help guide the work.
Each line names social-ecological challenges, but our work moves across them through dynamic inquiry, not siloed to singular approaches or explanatory frameworks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
FRONTERAS Collective members have research commitments and work in several sites across the Américas and in the Bay of Bengal. The map below shows where current and past work has been conducted, with student researchers involved in the work listed. The map pins show the status of the research (note some have multiple statuses, so have a core and a ring); clicking on the point will take you to more information about the work.
Places collective alumni work, each led by the researcher named.
Places worked by researchers the collective collaborates with, each led by the researcher named.
Funders, students, partners, and policy collaborators — get in touch about potential research, a co-authored paper, fieldwork mentorship, or a long-term partnership.
