PhD Project
Utopia, future imaginations and transformative practices in socio-environmental conflicts in Argentina
This project explores the imaginaries and practices of transformative futures in interrelation with global crises through social (movement) actors lived everyday experiences. In order to contribute to a better understanding of how desired and alternative futures are negotiated and build, the aims are two-fold. Firstly, to analyse the interrelation between local actions and global crises, structural dynamics and epistemologies in contemporary conflicts over the commodification of nature. Secondly, to delve into the transformative agenda Indigenous (movement) actors propose towards a new relationality that includes other-than-human beings and nature by comparing three cases. Argentina is the context of the three case studies analysed here because the country is a contested field of struggle over socio-environmental justice that arises from the commodification of nature, land and resources in capitalist modernity.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva Gerharz