PLENARY SESSIONS 2

Feminisms, environmentalisms and rights in Latin America

DATE: October 27, 2023

TIME: 8:00 am

9:30 am

LOCATION: Playa Grande Auditorium

SPEAKERS: Diana Vela-Almeida, Astrid Ulloa and Narlys Guzmán

MODERATOR(s): Gabriela Merlinsky

Diana Vela-Almeida
She works at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands. She combines political ecology, ecological economics and feminist critical geography to study extractivism, neoliberal environmentalism and socio-environmental resistance in the Global South.
Astrid Ulloa
Anthropologist from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, with a master’s degree and doctorate in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine. She has a long trajectory of research on environmental movements and indigenous peoples, territorial feminisms, feminist political ecology, and extractivism.
Gabriela Merlisky
PhD in Social Sciences (University of Buenos Aires), PhD in Geography, specialized in geopolitics (University Paris 8), MA in Social Sciences of Work (University of Buenos Aires), BA in Sociology (University of Buenos Aires). She is based at the University of Buenos Aires.
Narlys Guzmán
Black woman. Mother, defender of life, the territory and the environment.

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