Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2023-2024

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology

Research Summary: Given the global transition away from carbon-dependent economies and growing tendency towards internationalization of mining activities, there is an increase of international regulations and environmental local policies are rapidly changing, as well as the governance of environmental conflicts and the definitions of environmental harms and crimes. Seeking to understand the developing strategies and local environmental conditions in Latin America, my research focuses on the power relationships of groups involved in mining conflicts and decisions about mining at a local level: international mining companies, local States, and social movements, based on different understandings of environmental harm and crime.

Advisor: Stephanie Malin and KuoRay Mao