Comparative Studies on Socioecological Justice

Location: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Leopoldstraße 11a, fourth floor conference room, 80802 Munich, Germany, and online

The seminar brings together five contributions that, from complementary perspectives and drawing on research conducted in Europe and Latin America, explore different dimensions of socioecological justice. The presentations address a range of topics encompassing environmental peace, the rights of nature, food justice, food sovereignty, and the biocultural rights associated with native plants. Taken together, they offer a comparative perspective on these approaches and examine the potential and limitations of socioecological justice as a framework for understanding and addressing challenges arising in the context of global change.

Please note that this event will be in Spanish.

If you would like to join online, please contact bailogonzalo@gmail.com.

Presentations: 

Nuria des Viso Pabón (FUHEM, Spain) on “Paz ambiental: donde se cruza la justicia ecológica y los estudios de investigación para la paz” (Environmental Peace: At the Intersection of Ecological Justice and Peace Research)

Eduardo Melero Alonso (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain) on “¿Derechos de la naturaleza? Un análisis crítico y constructivo” (Rights of Nature? A Critical and Constructive Analysis)

Carolina Yacamán Ochhoa (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain) on “Justicia Alimentaria en el Antropoceno” (Food Justice in the Anthropocene)

María Eugenia Marichal (UNL-CONICET, Argentina) on “Soberanía alimentaria: un primer mapa conceptual” (Food Sovereignty: A First Conceptual Map)

Carolina Attallah (UNL-CONICET, Argentina) and Gonzalo Bailo (UNL- CONICET, Argentina) on “Plantas nativas medicinales en Argentina: entre el territorio y los derechos bioculturales” (Native Medicinal Plants in Argentina: Between Territory and Biocultural Rights)

Speak4Nature is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie-funded staff exchange action of the European Commission, with the specific object of transferring both theoretical and empirical knowledge related to the techniques that assert the voice of non-human nature in social and legal instances. Read more about the Rachel Carson Center's and LMU Munich's involvement in the project here.