María del Rocío Juárez Nogueira is a historical anthropologist with a master´s degree in Latin American studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the Postgraduate Program in Latin American Studies, where she is currently a doctoral student. Since then, she has worked on socio-environmental issues from a historical and structural perspective that accounts for the multidimensional relations of exploitation, subordination and dominance between different actors involved in territorial projects and the dispossession of commons.
She is finishing her doctoral thesis on the impacts of the presence and expansion of agribusiness companies in the cultivation of oil palm and cocoa in the Peruvian Amazon.
Her areas of interest and research include migration, impacts of infrastructure projects, rural policies, agrarian movements, land concentration processes, and climate change.
Recent publications:
(2021) “El proyecto de Hidrovía Amazónica: dragados del capital en la selva peruana” en De raíz diversa Revista Especializada en Estudios Latinoamericanos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Vol.8, No. 16 pp.167-191 ISSN: 2448-7988 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/ppela.24487988e.2017.8.82600
(2021) “Prácticas culturales, conservación y turismo: el caso del múrice (plicopurpura patula pansa) en Costa Rica” en Revista de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de Costa Rica 171(I) 203-216 ISSN IMPRESO: 0482-5276 ISSN ELECTRÓNICO: 2215-2601 DOI 10.15517/RCS.V0I171.49247
(2021) “Tierra de resistentes, articulación de luchas comunitarias contra la apropiación capitalista de los bienes comunes: un ejercicio de periodismo colaborativo” en El Volcán Insurgente, Número 65, abril, junio de 2021, México, pp. 138-145 ISSN: 2594-0961
(2020) “Proceso de trabajo y la subordinación de los valores de uso al capital: propuestas teóricas para el análisis socioambiental” en El Volcán Insurgente, Número 61, abril-junio de 2020, México, pp.32-49 ISSN: 2594-0961.
Milpa en el poblado de Yepó, Sierra de Chihuahua, México
Tintorero Ñuu Savi en Jilacán Oaxaca, México
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Carol Hernández
Carol Hernandez holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Portland State University, U.S., and is a professor/researcher at the University Program of Bioethics, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her areas of interest focus on agriculture and climate change, seed sovereignty, and indigenous social movements.