Mirna InturiasNur University · Investigation Institute
Mirna Inturias
Doctor of Education (Candidate)
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Introduction
I am a social researcher, specializing in indigenous issues, identity and interculturality, indigenous education and transformation of environmental conflicts. I have carried out research on environmental conflicts in protected areas and indigenous territories in the East, Chaco and Bolivian Amazon. I am a founding member of Grupo Confluencias and part of different Latin American networks of reflection and research. Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Social Research at Nur University.
Publications
Publications (18)
Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we use...
Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we use...
Biodiversity conservation interventions have long confronted challenges of human poverty. The ethical foundations of international conservation, including conservation's relationship with poverty, are currently being interrogated in animated debates about the future of conservation. However, while some commentary exists, empirical analysis of conse...
atención al rol que juegan los conflictos socio ambientales y su transformación en la necesaria transformación socio-ecológica. Los conflictos socio ambientales son una parte inherente de la crisis del sistema ecomómico actual. Hacen visibles las injusticias y las asimetrías de poder que se configuran en el orden político y mundial y por lo tanto t...
El presente libro recoge aportes teóricos - conceptuales, reflexiones y análisis de personas comprometidas con la transformación de conflictos socioambientales. Estas personas fueron reunidas por el Instituto de Investigación Científica y Social de la Universidad Núr, en el marco del desarrollo de una línea de investigación que surge de la imperiosa n...
A pesar de que se habla cada vez más de la transformación de conflictos socio-ambientales como meta y proceso en la gestión ambiental, todavía existe una necesidad apremiante de desarrollar herramientas conceptuales y prácticas que permitan a profesionales, organizaciones comunitarias, actores gubernamentales, organizaciones internacionales, activi...
El estudio de caso del pueblo Monkoxi de Lomerío ubicado en el departamento de Santa Cruz- Bolivia hace énfasis en la descripción densa y el análisis de los procesos autonómicos indígenas desarrollados en el marco del Estado plurinacional boliviano. El abordaje de este caso es desde el enfoque de transformación de conflictos socioambientales, y por...
This research is concerned with the trend towards commodification of forestry, in the context of community forest governance for sustainable development in the tropics. In these contexts, commodification takes different forms, including sales of certified timbers and sales of carbon credits. In addition to the general aim to enhance income, these m...
We explore local people’s perspectives of community forest (CF) on their land in Tanzania and Bolivia. Community forest management is known to improve ecological conditions of forests, but is more variable in its social outcomes. Understanding communities’ experience of community forestry and the potential benefits and burdens its formation may pla...
One of the distinctive features of environmental justice theory in Latin America is its influence by decolonial thought, which explains social and environmental injustices as arising from the project of modernity and the ongoing expansion of a European cultural imaginary. The decolonization of knowledge and social relations is highlighted as one of...
El libro que tienen en sus manos es uno de los productos del proyecto de investigación Conservación, Mercados y Justicia (CMJ) en Bolivia, realizado de manera conjunta entre la escuela de Desarrollo Internacional (DEV) de la a Universidad de East Anglia (UEA) del Reino Unido, la Universidad NUR en Santa Cruz y la Central Indígenas de Comunidades Or...
We discuss how (PV) can help with indigenous needs for cultural reassertion as well as with creating opportunities for restoring environmental justice in their territories when community-based natural resource
management and autonomous development themselves have become issues of local contention. The story we share is the one of the Monkox people...
Although environmental justice and conflict transformation have many common goals, they rarely talk to each other. In this article we try to bring these two bodies of knowledge closer with a discussion of the contributions that the theory and practice of conflict transformation offer to the field of environmental justice. In order to do so, it draw...
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Project (1)
The goal of this research is to contribute to reducing conflicts between conservation and local livelihoods. This proposed research aims to generate new knowledge that will support this and other national and international processes that are working towards more just and
effective forest conservation.
We will achieve this overall goal by focusing our research on the currently neglected issue of local people's conceptions of
fairness and justice and the ways in which these local conceptions converge with and diverge from justice framings built
into forest conservation initiatives designed by national and international aid agencies, NGOs and public policy-makers.
