We are witnessing a new momentum in critical agrarian studies. In the last two decades, multiple crises around food, feed, fuel, natural resources extractivism, land, finance, labor, migration, environment and human rights have converged. All of these contribute to global resource grabbing in an era of capitalism and climate change which affect the most vulnerable…
Author: Estefanía Ciro Rodríguez
Estefanía Ciro Rodríguez obtained a Ph.D. on Sociology in Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-honorable mention-(México). She completed an undergraduate program in Economics in Universidad de Los Andes-Bogotá as well as a Master Degree in History. Estefanía is founder and researcher in Research Center at Amazon Colombian region AlaOrillaDelRío which promotes regional research, dissemination of issues and support local processes and actors in the region. Since 2011, Estefanía has investigated rural communities in Caquetá and the regional coca economy. For this work, she won the UNESCO Prize Juan Bosch for the promotion of research in Latin America and the Caribbean. Also, she won an ICANH- Colombia- grant to study about women in coca lands. Currently, she is coordinator of Drug Economies and Armed Conflict Research Group part of Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad (Colombia). Estefanía is teaching at Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de México (ITESM). She has also assisted in Summer Workshop Training Programs at the Center for Ethnographic Research. UC- Berkeley, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, the Joseph A. Myers Center for Native American Issues and Diplomado en el Programa de políticas de control de Drogas y Salud pública del Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) en México. She has been an OXFAM and UNICEF consultant. She has teaching in Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), Universidad de la Amazonia (Colombia) and Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores (ITESM) Campus Querétaro (México). His most recent publications are “Las tierras profundas de la “lucha contra las drogas” en Colombia: la ley y la violencia estatal en la vida de los pobladores rurales del Caquetá”. Revista Colombiana de Sociología (2018), Ni guerra que nos mate, ni paz que nos oprima, incursión petrolera y defensa del agua durante las negociaciones y la firma de la paz en el sur de Colombia. Colombia Internacional (2017) and “El mapa petrolero en el territorio amazónico y la resistencia a su imposición en el Caquetá: los retos de la paz en el marco del pos-conflicto” en coautoría con Ciro, A., Barbosa, J. publicado en S. CORONADO, & A. ULLOA, Extractivismos y posconflicto en Colombia: Retos para la paz territorial. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, CINEP, (2016).