Sara Mingorría

• PhD in envrionmental sociology
• PostDoc Position at University of Girona

With the acceleration of airport construction and expansion in low- and middle-income countries, a multi-disciplinary scholarship that relates infrastructural development to social aviation is unfolding. By shifting the focus to the Global South, the authors of this book reveal colonial trajectories, the role of foreign investment and ownership, an...

Trained in the fields of ecological economics and political ecology, we are four women activist-researchers motivated by and interested in contributing to processes of social transformation. In this chapter, we make visible part of our critical thinking process in academia, departing from our experience in the fields of food sovereignty, commons an...

Este libro reúne una serie de textos que analizan las intersecciones entre las herencias coloniales, las múltiples formas de despojo capitalista y las respuestas que han dado distintas experiencias comunitario-populares en América Latina. Creemos que la profundización del capitalismo neoliberal que en estos momentos se deja caer sobre las tensiones...

Which role plays the more-than-human world in shaping the possibilities for contentious actions and politics? We discuss this question by revisiting reflections from social movement theory, agrarian studies, and commons management, and by reviewing empirical cases of protest significantly shaped by ecological endowments. Distinct political ecologic...

The Maya-Q’eqchi’ are the people that occupy the most territory in Guatemala and that historically, like other indigenous peoples, have resisted multiple waves of dispossession through ‘communitarian weavings’ and by maintaining their sacred relationship with the land and maize. In this article, I analyze how and why temporary and long-lasting ‘agr...

This teaching guide is aimed at professors, educators, and researchers interested in connecting research, teaching and art to better understand this globalized world, full of conflicts and so many uncertainties. It can also be used in work with students to build skills that allow them to develop collaboration, creativity, dialogue, reflection and c...

This study illustrates how, despite the diversity of women environmental defenders and their movements around the world, there are near-universal patterns of violence threatening their survival. Violence against women environmental defenders, often perpetrated by government-backed corporations, remains overlooked. Research on this issue importantly...

Recent research and policies recognize the importance of environmental defenders for global sustainability and emphasize their need for protection against violence and repression. However, effective support may benefit from a more systematic understanding of the underlying environmental conflicts, as well as from better knowledge on the factors tha...

La influencia y legitimidad social del conocimiento científico están decreciendo globalmente. Una de las razones es la falta de interacción y comu-nicación entre los ámbitos de la ciencia, la gestión y las poblaciones locales o la sociedad en su conjunto. En los ámbitos de las políticas de soste-nibilidad y la crisis socioecológica global, esto rep...

Reducing Air Travel in a Just Way Flying is the fastest way to heat the planet. How can a reduction of aviation and its climate impact be achieved in a just way? The report, published in December 2019, fills an important gap: While it has been clear to the climate movement and civil society that “green growth” of aviation is and will be an illusion...

Volar es la forma más rápida de freír el planeta. ¿Cómo se puede lograr una reducción de la aviación y de su impacto medioambiental de una manera justa? El informe, publicado en enero de 2020, llena un vacío importante: si bien el movimiento climático y la sociedad civil tienen claro desde hace tiempo que el “crecimiento verde” de la aviación es y...

Rural territories and cultures have been increasingly sacrificed through depopulation, invasion by infrastructure, and the presence of industries which are incompatible with agriculture. Meanwhile, the expansion of urban space through demographic agglomeration and the concentration of activities in cities is leading to a progressively urbanised wor...

Stay Grounded es una red global para construir un sistema de transporte socialmente justo y ecológicamente racional y por el decrecimiento de la aviación. Cuenta con el apoyo de casi 200 grupos y organizaciones y más de 130 de ellos son miembros activos.

La aviación es el camino más rápido hacia la crisis climática. Sin embargo, los viajes aéreos están creciendo rápidamente, con cientos de nuevos aeropuertos proyectados, a pesar de la resistencia local y la urgente necesidad de mitigar esta crisis. La industria de la aviación ha anunciado su intención de volverse más verde en el futuro. ¿Sus estrat...

Resumen: En este artículo reflexionamos sobre las potencialidades de conectar el arte, el activismo y la investigación para entender, analizar y comunicar qué son los conflictos socioambientales, sus causas y consecuencias [1]. En particular, presentamos y evaluamos una experiencia piloto de arte y educación activista con estudiantes universitarios...

In this Draft Chapter 2.1 of the IBES Global Assesment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services we explored how global transformation involved key tradeoffs, and inequalities, as growing interactions drove economic growth but also degradation. Accelerations in consumption & interconnection have had tradeoffs.

Guía docente basados en un proyecto piloto en la asignatura de Usos Humanas del Planeta Terra, en la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Puentes entre activismo, arte, investigación y educación. Contiene cinco fichas para que el alumnado explore a través de la música, el teatro y la plataforma on-line de conflictos socio-ambientales (Ejatlas.org) o...

Environmental justice activism is to this age what the workers’ movement was for the industrial age - one of the most influential social movements of its time. Yet, despite its consistent progress since the 1970s, environmental justice protests seem to get lost in the morass of information on broader environmental issues. In contrast, labour confl...

Although studies on environmental conflicts have engaged with the subject of violence, a multidimensional approach has been lacking. Using data from 95 environmental conflicts in Central America, we show how different forms of violence appear and overlap. We focus on direct, structural, cultural, slow, and ecological forms of violence. Results sugg...

La represión y la resistencia de las mujeres a favor de la justicia ambiental permanecen invisibles en las esferas académicas y políticas. Con este artículo, hemos querido señalar su relevancia, recordar los nombres de quienes ya no están físicamente presentes y citar ejemplos de las que continúan luchando aun cuando su vida está en constante pelig...

Over the last two decades, the expansion of oil palm and sugarcane plantations in the Polochic Valley (Guatemala) has exacerbated the historical struggle of Maya-Q’eqchi’ peoples for land rights. Based on a mixed-methods approach, I examine the dynamics of the conflict between 1998 and 2014, focusing on the visibility, manifestation and intensity o...

This chapter presents the evaluation of three organic tomato supply chains in Catalonia (Spain): the Local and Global supply chains, and a Mixed supply chain. The evaluation is based on a set of multidimensional indicators derived from different narratives: Commodity, Environmental and Livelihoods. In so doing, we identified the main challenges whe...

En las últimas dos décadas la expansión de cultivos flexibles en Latinoamérica ha exacerbado las históricas disputas por el acceso a tierra y recursos naturales. Específicamente en el Valle del Polochic, Guatemala; las comunidades Maya-Q’eqchi’ han sido desposeídas de su territorio desde la privatización de la tierra en la época de la colonia, y ah...

The wide-ranging literature on food systems provides multiple perspectives and world views. Various stakeholders define food and food systems in non-equivalent ways. The perception of the performance of food systems is determined by these specific perspectives, and a wide variety of policies responding to different aims are proposed and implemented...

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) has become one of the most rapidly expanding crops in the world. Many countries have promoted its cultivation as part of a broader rural development strategy aimed at generating paid work and producing both export commodities and biofuels. However, oil palm expansion has often occurred at the expense of ecosystems and s...

While rural transformations are nothing new in human history, current pro-cesses of rural change occur under multiple forces at an unprecedented pace, involving profound and unexpected changes in land use and users, and rapid transformations in the metabolic patterns of rural systems. The present special section aims to shed light on current driver...

El presente informe recaba la información necesaria para verificar el grado de implicación del Estado guatemalteco en el cumplimiento de sus obligaciones adquiridas en materia de derecho internacional con las ratificaciones del Pacto Internacional de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, el Pacto Internacional de Derechos Civiles y Políticos...

Land concentration and land grabbing do not occur only in developing countries in the South; in fact, both are underway in Europe today, argues a new report by European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands off the Land network. It shows how the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidy scheme and other national policies are driving this dynamic.

Desde el periodo colonial, América Latina (Indígena y Afro-descendiente) fue insertada en la economía mundial como proveedor de materias primas para sostener los patrones de producción y consumo de las metrópolis, primero, de los países “centrales” posteriormente y en la actualidad de éstos y de potencias emergentes del sur global (especialmente as...

Researchers and conservation managers largely agree on the relevance of traditional ecological knowledge for natural resource management in indigenous communities, but its prevalence and role as societies modernize are contested. We analyzed the transmission of traditional knowledge among rural local people in communities linked to protected areas...

El valle del río Polochic es un territorio en disputa. La expansión explosiva de los monocultivos de caña de azúcar y palma africana convergen con intereses mineros, hidroeléctricos, conservacionistas, finqueros-ganaderos, de explotación turística y, en menor medida, con huleros, madereros, bananeros y de plantaciones de teca. Esto trae consigo un...

El capitalismo agrario flexible, cuya vanguardia son los monocultivos extensivos de la caña de azúcar y la palma africana, junto con la explotación de minería de metales e hidrocarburos, el turismo de masas, y el control territorial del narcotráfico conducen los procesos de re-estructuración territorial. Procesos que permiten la apropiación de los...

En la presente tesis se analiza el estado y tendencia del Conocimiento Ecológico Local (LEK) en Doñana. Con el propósito de evaluar la contribución del LEK frente al régimen de perturbaciones y su potencial como herramienta de gestión en los espacios naturales. Con este fin, se caracterizó alguna de las prácticas adaptativas desarrolladas para hace...