{"id":2267,"date":"2025-09-18T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/?page_id=2267"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:38:59","slug":"gabriela-merlinsky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/fellows\/fellows-visiting-scientists\/gabriela-merlinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriela Merlinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gabriela Merlinsky is a sociologist who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. She holds PhDs in Geography from the University of Paris 8 and in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. She is a full professor of environmental sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. She also lectures in political ecology in various parts of the world. She is also a Principal Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Argentina. Her research combines social science and environmental humanities to study climate action, water, gender and environmental conflicts in Latin America.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriela Merlinsky’s professional career has been closely linked to the social and political construction of environmental issues in Argentina. She has spent more than twenty years conducting research on environmental degradation in the metropolitan basins of Buenos Aires. This experience has given her valuable insight into the complexities of environmental restoration in relation to social inequalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has shared her expertise with several institutions, including the Universit\u00e9 de Tours, the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) in Barcelona, the Institut des Hautes \u00c9tudes de l’Am\u00e9rique latine (IHEAL) at Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne Nouvelle \u2013 Paris 3, Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica del Per\u00fa, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, and Universidad Nacional de la Rep\u00fablica. She has also held the Richard E. Greenleaf Distinguished Chair in Latin American Studies at Tulane University and been a fellow on the \u201cSummer Programme in Social Science: An International and Interdisciplinary Initiative’ at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She combines case studies with participatory action research, collaborating with environmental activists and advocates. This has allowed her to develop a long-term perspective on the institutionalization of environmental demands in Argentina and other Latin American countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water and Environmental Policies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justice climatique<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Socio-Ecological Transformations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental Conflicts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gender and Feminist Political Ecologies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urban Political Ecology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Publications <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mart\u00edn, F; Merlinsky, G and Milanez, F (2025). Descolonizar la naturaleza. Por una ecolog\u00eda pol\u00edtica latinoamericana: textos reunidos de H\u00e9ctor Alimonda 1982-2017. Buenos Aires, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), 569 Pages. https:\/\/biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar\/handle\/CLACSO\/252109<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merlinsky, M.G y Tob\u00edas, M (2023). \u201cTrajectories of adaptation to climate change in Latin American cities. Climate justice blind spots\u201d. In:  Beatriz Bustos<\/a>, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro<\/a>, Gustavo Garc\u00eda-L\u00f3pez <\/a>, Felipe Milanez <\/a>et Diana Ojeda (editors)<\/a>: Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment, London, Routledge. 10.4324\/9780429344428-14<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hern\u00e1ndez Vidal, N., Merlinsky, G., & Bolados, P. (2023). Defending the Commons: New Frontiers in Latin American Perspectives on Environmental Justice. Sociological Inquiry. 2023-05. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/soin.12525<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guerra Flavia and Merlinsky, Gabriela (2022). City Profiles N 1. Buenos Aires. Transformative Urban Coalitions.  https:\/\/urbancoalitions.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/files\/20221110_TUC_City_Profile_BuenosAires.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schmidt, M., Tob\u00edas, M., Merlinsky, M. G., & Toledo L\u00f3pez, V. (2022). Conflicts over water and the use of agrochemicals in Salta and Santiago del Estero, Argentina: a political ecology analysis. [Conflictos por el agua y el uso de agroqu\u00edmicos en Salta y Santiago del Estero, Argentina: un an\u00e1lisis desde la ecolog\u00eda pol\u00edtica]. Agua y Territorio, Issue 21, Pages: 85 \u2013 102. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17561\/at.21.5889<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merlinsky, Gabriela (2021). Toda ecolog\u00eda es pol\u00edtica. Las luchas por el derecho al ambiente en busca de alternativas de mundos. Buenos Aires, Siglo Veintiuno Editores. 200 pages <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mel\u00e9 Patrice et Merlinsky, Gabriela (2021) Environnement et droit(s) dans la ville \u00e0 Buenos Aires. Cahiers des Am\u00e9riques Latines<\/em>, 2021, 97, pp.117-135. \u27e810.4000\/cal.13378\u27e9<\/a>. \u27e8hal-03613801\u27e9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merlinsky, G y Serafini, P (editors) (2020). Arte y Ecolog\u00eda Pol\u00edtica. Buenos Aires, Colecci\u00f3n IIGG-CLACSO, 244 pages. https:\/\/biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar\/Argentina\/iigg-uba\/20200827030621\/Arte-ecologia-politica.pdf<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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