Agrarian Politics Episode 6: Political Ecology: Society, nature and the commons Inequality and injustice cannot be resolved within society without also confronting the destructive and exploitative relations between society and nature. This is a key argument within political ecology, an interdisciplinary approach that challenges ideas among radical thinkers in critical agrarian studies. In this episode,…
Author: Sergio Coronado
Sergio Coronado is a Colombian Ph.D. candidate in Social and Political Science at the Free University, Berlin, affiliated with the Political Ecology Research Group at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Formerly, he was enrolled as a researcher at the “Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular”- Cinep in Bogotá, Colombia, and as a lecturer and researcher at the Javeriana University in Bogotá, specifically at the “Observatorio de Territorios Étnicos y Campesinos” project affiliated to the Faculty of Environmental and Rural Studies. He holds a Bachelor degree in Law, and MA degrees in Rural Development (Javeriana University) and Law (National University of Colombia). He published “Rights in the Time of Populism: Land and Institutional Change Amid the Reemergence of Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Colombia” published in Land, 2019; and co-authored the book chapter: “Colombian land problems, armed conflict and the state” included in: Confronting Land and Property Problems for Peace, book published by Routledge in 2014. Currently, he writes his dissertation on peasant agency and institutional change in Colombia and supports the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) secretariat. Email: sergioandrescoronado@gmail.com; sergio.coronado@fu-berlin.de
Towards a solidarity-based network of agrarian studies global-south scholars: A Manifesto
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…