Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies The meeting will be hosted online, but if you are on campus, please join part of the audience at the CLALS conference room (473 McNeil)—we’ll have coffee and some yummy snacks.
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IRC on Socioenvironmental and Territorial Conflicts - Thea Riofrancos
For those who would like to do some extra reading, Dr. Riofrancos has recently published in Foreign Policy drawing on this research and here you can find a methodology article, with the approach she develops in the manuscript we will discuss.
Thea Riofrancos Thea Riofrancos is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2020-2022) and an Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College. Her research focuses on resource extraction, renewable energy, climate change, green technology, social movements, and the left in Latin America. These themes are explored in her book, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Duke University Press, 2020), peer-reviewed articles in Perspectives on Politics, Cultural Studies,World Politics, and Global Environmental Politics (forthcoming), essays in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, n+1, Dissent, Jacobin and NACLA, and her co-authored book, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso Books, 2019). She is currently writing a book titled Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, under contract with W.W. Norton.
Dr. Riofrancos received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and her main advisor was CLALS Director, Dr. Tulia Falleti.