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Manuel Arias-Maldonado

Prof. Dr. Manuel Arias-Maldonado

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University of Malaga, Spain


Manuel Arias-Maldonado is a political theorist focusing on environmental politics writ large. He studied law at the University of Malaga and completed a PhD in Political Science in 2001. After enjoying a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Berkeley in 2003-2004, he returned to the University of Malaga, where he is a lecturer in political science. He has researched at Keele University, Oxford University, and the University of Siena. His research topics include political liberalism, the minimal state, deliberative democracy, social movements, and, as of late, Wikipedia and the sociopolitical implications of information technologies. He is a regular contributor to the journal Environmental Politics, and has just published a study on ecological citizenship in Spain with two other colleagues.

At the Center, Arias-Maldonado finished a book entitled Real Green: Sustainability after the End of Nature (Ashgate, forthcoming). The book is supposed to be a combination of environmental philosophy and green political theory that advocates post-natural green politics—that is, a more realistic and less utopian environmentalism. To this end, it explores socio-natural relationships and the meaning of nature’s end as a departure point for an open view of sustainability that does not conflict with liberal-democratic society; they are, rather, seen as mutually reinforcing elements. He also worked on an article about the concept of nature in politics and the implications of naturalism for the next European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference.

Selected Publications:

  • With Ángel Valencia Sáiz and Rafael Vázquez García. Ciudadanía y conciencia medioambiental en España [Citizenship and Environmental Awareness in Spain]. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2010.
  • Wikipedia: un estudio comparado [Wikipedia: A Comparative Study]. Documentos del Colegio Libre de Eméritos 4. Madrid: Colegio Libre de Eméritos, 2010.
  • Sueño y mentira del ecologismo. Naturaleza, sociedad, democracia [Environmentalism’s Dream: Nature, Society, and Democracy]. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2008.
  • “The Democratization of Sustainability.” Environmental Politics 9, no. 4 (Winter 2000): 43-58.
  •  “Sustainability and Democracy: Towards a Green Democratic Model.” Oxford Centre for the Ethics, Environment and Society (OCEES) Research Papers (March 2001).
  •  “Green Politics and Deliberative Democracy.” Institute of International Studies Working Papers, Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics, WP 04-13. The Berkeley Electronic Press, 2005.
  • “An Imaginary Solution? The Green Defence of Deliberative Democracy.” Environmental Values 16, no. 2 (May 2007): 233-252.
  • “Democracy in a Risk Society? Notes on Risk and Deliberation.” In-Spire Journal of Law, Politics and Society 4, no 2 (December 2009): 13-25. http://www.in-spire.org/issues/vol4%20no2.html.

Last updated: March 2012