Manuel Prieto

Professor in the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences at the Universidad de Tarapacá.  Associate Researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR). Director of the Millenium Nucleus on Andean Peatlands (AndesPeat).  Manuel Prieto’s research agenda is situated at the intersection of political and cultural ecology, political geography, and environmental science. His primary […]

Shelene Gomes

Professor of Department of Behavioural Sciences, The University of the West Indies  Shelene Gomes teaches courses in social anthropology and the sociology of culture with research interests in migration, mobilities, cosmopolitan thought and action, postcolonial religion and spirituality as well as the politics of race, class and gender.  She has done ethnographic fieldwork in East […]

Gabriela Piña

Professor School of Anthropology Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies CIIR Gabriel Piña’s work focuses on childhood, interculturality and citizenship. Her topics of interest are: the ways in which indigenous children and youth understand the political realities of their communities, their processes of subjectivation, participatory methodologies […]

Guillermo Salas

Professor of Anthropology, Department of Social Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú PUCP. Director of the MA programs in Anthropology and Visual Anthropology PUCP. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. His research has been centered on indigenous […]

Ana Carolina Hecht

Professor Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters Universidad de Buenos Aires Carolina Hecht is dedicated to the anthropology of education and linguistics, focusing on the research-production of educational and sociolinguistic problems of Toba/qom indigenous children and youth in contexts of diversity and inequality in Argentina. She is an associate researcher at CONICET and […]

Juan Carlos Cayo

Board member of the Instituto Nacional de Derechos Humanos INDH  Aymara lawyer from the University of Tarapacá, Master in Constitutional Law and PhD candidate in Law at the University of Seville. Currently works in the Calama Municipaly in the Antofagasta Region.  Dedicated to the defense of the human rights of indigenous peoples in the north […]

Miriam Gay-Antaki

Assistant Professor Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of New Mexico Miriam Gay-Antaki’s work focuses on human-environment relations in the era of anthropogenic global climate change. She draws from the frameworks of political ecology and feminist geography to trace climate change policy development as a series of networked connections ranging from formal political […]

Maria Christina Fragkou

María Cristina Fragku

Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Chile Maria Christina Fragkou works on socio-environmental issues from a critical point of view and from the perspective of political ecology, ecological economics and environmental geography. Her research focuses on the physical-political processes that contribute to the construction of scarcity in rural and urban […]

Stine Krøijer

Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology University at the Copenhagen Stine Krøijer is interested in climate politics, nature and political activism in Latin America and Northern Europe. She has worked with the performative aspects of protests, time and political cosmology among climate activists,  anarchists and among indigenous peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon. With a […]

Ulla Berg

Ulla Berg

Associate Professor at the Rutgers Anthropology Department Ulla D. Berg is a sociocultural and visual anthropologist specializing in Latin America and in Latinx communities in the U.S. She received her Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from New York University and her MA in Social Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research focuses on historical […]