Book launch: Latin American Political Ecology: Working with the Past, Enriching the Present, Sketching Futures.
Book launch: Latin American Political Ecology: Working with the Past, Enriching the Present, Sketching Futures.
Edited by David Dumolin Kevran, Gabriela Merlinsky, and Pierre Gautreau. Published January 22, 2026 (354 p.) https://books.openedition.org/iheal/15843
Round table with Chloé Nicolas-Artero, research fellow in geography, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement – UMR SENS (IRD/CIRAD/Université Paul Valéry); Emilie Coudel, socio-economic researcher, CIRAD, UMR Sens (IRD/CIRAD/Université Paul Valéry); David Dumoulin Kervran, professor of sociology, USN-IHEAL/CREDA; Gabriela Merlinsky, visiting professor at the University of Montpellier as part of the MAK’IT Institute’s guest researcher program and professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Buenos Aires).
Latin America now plays a central role in critical environmental thinking. Over the last fifty years, Latin American political ecology has established itself both as an interdisciplinary field within the social sciences and as a space for close dialogue with territorial struggles, the critique of extractivism, and agroecology, as well as decolonial and feminist epistemologies. It engages with Anglophone and European traditions while asserting itself as a situated site of enunciation. The authors of this work shed light on the genealogies, concepts, controversies, and transnational circulations that structure ecología política latinoamericana, questioning dominant development models and exploring ecopolitical futures. Based on empirical investigations and leading theoretical reflections, this volume analyzes socio-environmental conflicts. This contribution thus offers the French-speaking public a primary overview of this vibrant movement and encourages us to rethink the global ecological crisis from and with the Americas.
