Sara Latorre Tomás

Sara Latorre Tomás
Sierra Perenchiza 15. Picanya. Valencia. Spain. 46210
E-mail: [email protected]
Skype: sara.latorre.tomas
EDUCATION
2009-2013
University Autonomous of Barcelona. Ph.D. Programme in
Environmental Sciences and Technology. Ecological Economics
and Environmental Management. Institute of Environmental Science
and Technology. European doctorate mention.
Subfields: political ecology, socio-environmental conflicts and
social movements, indigeneity. Doctoral thesis: “Struggles over
Accumulation by Environmental Dispossession in Ecuador”.
Supervisors: Joan Martínez Alier and Katharine N. Farrell.
11/2010-04/2011
Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Short-term
scholarship at the research network DesiguAldades.net. Dimension
III: Socio-environmental inequalities in Latin America.
(http://www.desigualdades.net/es/index.html).
2006- 2008
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences- FLACSO, Ecuador.
Master degree in Social Science, option socio-environmental
studies. M.Sc thesis: “El pago de servicios ambientales por
conservación de biodiversidad como instrumento para el desarrollo
con identidad. Caso: La Gran Reserva Chachi. Cantón Eloy Alfaro,
provincia Esmeraldas” (The payment for environmental services in
biodiversity conservation as a means for development with identity.
Case: The great Chachi Reserve).
2000-2005
University Autonomous of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Bachelor
of Environmental Science. Final project: “Análisis del instrumento
de Consulta Previa del Convenio 169 de la OIT en un conflicto
petrolero de la Amazonía ecuatoriana” (Analysis of the Prior
consultation tool of the 169 ILO in an oil conflict in the Ecuadorian
Amazon).
2004-2005
San Francisco of Quito University, Quito, Ecuador.
One-year university exchange.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
2013
Rural conflict dynamics during the government of Rafael
Correa. Instituto de Estudios Ecuatorianos (IEE), Ecuador.
2012-2013
EJOLT Project (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities
and Trade, www.ejolt.org). European-funded FP7 project
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coordinated by Dr. Joan Martínez Alier, Autonomous University of
Barcelona.
Specific contribution:
Systematization of 45 socio-environmental conflicts of Ecuador.
2011-2013
ENGOV Project (Environmental Governance in Latin America and
the Caribbean: Developing Frameworks for Sustainable and
Equitable
Natural
Resource
Use
Environmental,
http://www.engov.eu/es/).
European-funded
FP7
project
coordinated by Dr. Joan Martinez-Alier, Autonomous University of
Barcelona.
Specific contributions:
Social-multicriteria evaluation of territorial scenarios in the Íntag
region, Ecuador.
Inventory and analysis of the nature of conflicts around natural
resource exploitation in Ecuador during the period 1980-2013.
2011-2013
MSOCA Project (Social Metabolism and Environmental
Conflicts). Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain.
Specific contribution:
Analysis of the political strategy of the Ecuadorian social movement
for the defense of mangrove ecosystems.
2008-2009
The Ecuadorian environmental movement. Case studies: mining
and water. Coordinators: FLACSO-Ecuador/ Instituto de Estudios
Ecuatorianos (IEE).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2012
Assistant professor (auxiliar docente) of Joan Martínez Alier, Latin
American Faculty of Social Sciences- FLACSO, Ecuador.
Course: “Ecological Economics and Political Ecology”.
2006
Temporal professor, School of Human Science, Pontifical
Catholic University of Ecuador.
Course: “Sustainable
Development”.
RELATED EMPLOYMENT
2009-2010
Researcher at the Instituto de Economía Ecológica y Ecología
Política, Barcelona. España. Web: www.ieeep.net.
FELLOWSHIP AND GRANTS
DesiguALdaldes.net short-term scholarship, Berlin, Germany (2010-2011).
Solidarity Autonomous Foundation-FAS, University Autonomous of Barcelona, grant for
field research, Barcelona, Spain (2010-2011; 2013-2014).
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Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences- FLACSO, best research proposal award, Quito,
Ecuador (2008).
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences- FLACSO, Master Degree Scholarship, Quito,
Ecuador (2006-2008).
University Autonomous of Barcelona, International Study Programme. Undergraduate
Scholarship to study one-year at the San Francisco of Quito University, Quito, Ecuador
(2004-2005).
PUBLICATIONS:
Peer-reviewed papers
Latorre, S, K. Farrell and J. Martínez-Alier (Forthcoming). “The Commoditization of Nature
and Socio-Environmental Resistance in Ecuador: an Inventory of Conflicts,
1980-2013”. Geoforum.
Walter, Mariana, Sara Latorre, Carlos Larrea and Giuseppe Munda. (Forthcoming). “A
social multi-criteria evaluation approach to structure and open-up social debate
on mining conflicts. The case of Intag, Ecuador”. Journal of Land Use Policy.
Latorre, S and K. Farrell. (In press). “The Disruption of Ancestral Peoples of the Mangrove
Ecosystem: Class and Ethnic Differentiation within a Changing Political
Context”. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.
Latorre, Sara. (2014). Resisting environmental dispossession in Ecuador: whom does the
political category of "Ancestral Peoples of the Mangrove Ecosystem" include
and aim to empower?. Journal of Agrarian Change.
Latorre, S. (2013). The politics of identification in a shrimp conflict in Ecuador: the political
subject Pueblos Ancestrales del Ecosistema Manglar (Ancestral People of
Mangrove Ecosystem). Journal of Latin American and Caribbean
Anthropology, 18 (1): 67-89.
Latorre, S. (2012). El movimiento ecologista popular anti-minero en el Ecuador. Ecuador
Debate 87: 123-146.
Latorre, S. (2011). El pago de servicios ambientales por conservación de biodiversidad
como instrumento de desarrollo con identidad. Caso La Gran Reserva Chachi,
cantón Eloy Alfaro, provincia de Esmeraldas Ed.Tesis-FLACSO. ISBN: 9789978-67-2.
Latorre, S y A. Santillana. (2009). Capitalismo estatal o convergencia populares. Íconos
34:13-18. ISSN: 1390-1249.
Latorre, S. (2005). ¿El instrumento de la Consulta Previa: una herramienta a favor de qué y
de quién?. Ecología Política 30: 119-120.
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Books
Latorre, S., M. Walter, y C. Larrea. (In press). Íntag, un territorio en disputa. Posibles
escenarios de desarrollo territorial para Íntag. Un enfoque de evaluación social
multi-criterio. Sobre las implicancias ambientales, económicas y sociales
locales de desarrollar la minería o el turismo en Íntag. Universidad Andina
Simón Bolívar-Abya-Yala.
Latorre, Sara y Stalin Herrera. (2014). “Gobernar para extraer: dinámica del conflicto en el
gobierno de Rafael Correa”. En: ¿A quién le importa los guayacanes?
Acumulación, gobierno y conflictos en el campo. Stalin Herrera. Pp. 109-193.
IEE-CDES.
Working Papers
Latorre, S. (2012). Territorialities of Power in the Ecuadorian Coast: The Politics of an
Environmentally
Dispossessed
Group.
Working
Paper.
Nº23.
DesiguAldades.net.
Latorre, S. (2009). El ecologismo popular en el Ecuador: pasado y presente. Quito: Instituto
de Estudios Ecuatorianos, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales,
Unpublished.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“La Mercantilización de la Naturaleza y Resistencia Socio-Ambiental en Ecuador: un
Inventario de Conflictos, 1980-2013”, presented at the Sixth Ibero-American Conference on
Development and Environment (CISDA), Quito, December 2013.
“Territorialities of Power in the Ecuadorian Coast: The Politics of an Environmentally
Dispossessed Group”, presented at the 54 International Congress of Americanists, Vienne,
July 2012.
“Pueblos Ancestrales del Ecosistema Manglar (Ancient Peoples of Mangrove Ecosystem):
the politics of an environmental dispossessed group”, presented at the XXX International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, May 2012.
“Social multi-criteria evaluation and local development alternatives in Intag, Ecuador”,
presented at the 9th conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE),
Istanbul, June, 2011.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Catalan and Spanish: native
English: fluent.
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