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Bio 

I work as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Specific Didactics, in the Faculty of Education Sciences and Psychology University of Córdoba, Spain.

I develop my research work at the Peace and Conflicts Institute, University of Granada; and within the South Training Action Network of Decoloniality (Stand UGR) and the NGO Asociación Solidaria Andaluza de Desarrollo (ASAD).

My research focuses mainly in the analysis of Socio-Environmental Conflicts and Environmental Justice Movements, within the framework of Political Ecology.

My research interests also include Peace and Conflict Studies, Environmental Education and Citizen Science. I teach different courses related to the topic of Socio-Environmental Conflicts, both at undergraduate and graduate level, and I have supervised a number of graduate and Master’s thesis on the same topic.

 

Research

Research interests:

  • Peace and Conflict Studies (Environmental Conflicts)
  • Political Ecology
  • Environmental Education
  • Citizen Science

– Researcher in the Project Strengthening of National Research Capacity on Policy, Conflict Resolution, and Reconciliation in Palestine. University of Granada/Arab-American University, Palestine (2018-2021).

-Lead researcher in the Project “Conflictos por recursos” (Conflicts over resources). Funded by Junta de Andalucía (2017-2018).

-Researcher in the International Project “Extracting Justice? Exploring the role of free, prior and informed consent, consultations and compensation payments related to socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America. Funded by the Research Council of Norway.

-Lead researcher in the project “Socio-environmental Conflicts Monitoring Model with Early Warning System” in El Pangui, Ecuador (2013-2015).

-Member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) (2014-)

-Member of the Nuclear International Research Group (NIRG), of the Network in Canadian History & Environment (NICHE) (2012-)

-Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal Publicaciones (ISSN: 1577-4147)

-Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal Revista de Paz y Conflictos (ISSN: 1988-7221)

Track record

Selected Publications

-Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis (2020) ¿Ciencia de resistencia? Monitoreos ambientales participativos en contextos de conflicto ambiental. Reflexiones desde una mirada decolonial. Revista de Paz y Conflictos, vol. 12, 2.

-Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis and Leifsen, Esben (2019) Anti-mining resistance in formal spaces of governance: The case of CASCOMI in EcuadorERLACS – European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies,  (108), 65–86. DOI: http://doi.org/10.32992/erlacs.10460

-Leifsen, Esben, Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis and Reyes Conza, Maleny. «Claiming prior consultation, monitoring environmental impact: Counterwork by the use of formal instruments of participatory governance in Ecuador’s emerging mining sector» in Leifsen, Esben et al. (2018) New Mechanisms of Participation in Extractive Governance. Between technologies of governance and resistance work. New York, Routledge.

-Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis, Leifsen, Esben y Verdú, Ana Dolores (2017) Minería a gran escala en el Proyecto Mirador, Ecuador: Conflicto, resistencia y etnicidad. [Large-scale mining in Ecuador: conflict, resistance and ethnicity]. AIBR, Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana, 12, 2. DOI: 10.11156/aibr.120205

–Van Tejlingen, Karolien, Leifsen, Esben, Fernández-Salvador, Consuelo, Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis (eds.)(2017) La Amazonía Minada. Minería a gran escala y conflictos en el sur del Ecuador. [Mining the Amazon – Large-scale mining and conflicts in Southern Ecuador]. Quito, Ediciones Abya-Yala/ USFQ Press.

-Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis, Reyes Conza, Maleny. «Producción de conocimiento científico en el Mirador: procesos participativos frente a ciencia corporativa» [Production of scientific knowledge in the Mirador: participatory processes versus corporate science]  in Van Tejlingen, Karolien, et al. (eds.)(2017) La Amazonía Minada. Minería a gran escala y conflictos en el sur del Ecuador.. Quito, Ediciones Abya-Yala/ USFQ Press.

-Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis, Niesar, Sebastian, Eguiguren, María Beatriz, Espinosa, María Gabriela. “Diálogo minero” en el Ecuador: una aproximación a las iniciativas en el Proyecto Mirador» [«Mining dialogue» in Ecuador: an approach to the initiatives in the Mirador Project] in Van Tejlingen, Karolien, et al. (eds.)(2017) La Amazonía Minada. Minería a gran escala y conflictos en el sur del Ecuador.  Quito, Ediciones Abya-Yala/ USFQ Press.

-Leifsen, Esben, Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis and Reyes Conza, Maleny (2017) Claiming prior consultation, monitoring environmental impact: Counterwork by the use of formal instruments of participatory governance in Ecuador’s emerging mining sector. Third World Quarterly, 38, 5. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1294980

-Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis,  y Eguiguren Riofrío, María Beatriz (2017) Aportes teórico-metodológicos para un Sistema de Alerta Temprana de conflictos socioambientales. Experiencias en torno al Proyecto Mirador, Ecuador, [Theoretical and methodological contributions for an Early Warning System of socio-environmental conflicts. The case of the Mirador Project, Ecuador]  Investigaciones Geográficas, Num. 93, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14350/rig.52264

-Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis, Espinosa Quezada, María Gabriela y Eguiguren Riofrío, María Beatriz (2016) Perception of socio-environmental conflicts in mining areas: the case of the Mirador Project, Ecuador. Ambiente & Sociedade, Vol. 19, Num. 2.

-Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis, Espinosa Quezada, María Gabriela y Eguiguren Riofrío, María Beatriz (2015) “Golden reality” or the “reality of gold”: artisanal mining and socio-environmental conflict in Chinapintza, Ecuador. The Extractive Industries and Society,Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2016, Pages 124–128. (DOI) 10.1016/j.exis.2015.11.004

-Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis and Menéndez-Navarro, Alfredo (2014) Nuclear Energy in the Public Sphere: Anti-Nuclear Movements vs. Industrial Lobbies in Spain (1962–1979). Minerva,Volume 53, Issue 1, pp 69-88 (DOI) 10.1007/s11024-014-9263-0.

– Sánchez-Vázquez, Luis (2014) Mediación en conflictos ambientales. Una aproximación preliminar desde la Investigación para la Paz. [Mediation in environmental conflicts. A preliminary approach from Peace and Conflict Studies] Complexus, saberes entretejidos, num. 3.

– Menéndez Navarro, Alfredo y Sánchez Vázquez, Luis (2013) Radiological protection in the Spanish nuclear industry
under Franco, 1939-1975. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos (ISSN 0104-5970) Volumen 20, Número 3.

– Sánchez Vázquez, Luis (2011) Conflictos socioambientales y energía nuclear. Perspectivas desde la Investigación para la Paz, [Socio-environmental conflicts around nuclear energy. Perspectives from Peace and Confict Studies] Revista Paz y Conflictos (ISSN: 1988-7221), Número 4.

-Sánchez Vázquez, Luis (2010) La legitimación de la energía nuclear en España: el Fórum Atómico Español (1962-1979). [The legitimacy of nuclear energy in Spain: the Spanish Atomic Forum (1962-1979)]. Doctoral Thesis, Granada.

-Sánchez Vázquez, Luis y Codorníu Solé, Juan (eds.) (2010) Movimiento asociativo y Cultura de Paz. Una mirada desde Andalucía. [Associative movement and Culture of Peace. A perspective from Andalusia]. Granada, Universidad de Granada.

 

 

Invited presentations at international conferences

-«Environmental injustices and conflicts. Proposals for peaceful and emancipatory transformation». Jornadas AIPAZ 2019, Afrontar la cultura del miedo a través de la cultura de paz. Granada, 28 November 2019.

-Workshop «Science&Activism: Co-production of scientific knowledge», co-organized with Marta Çonde. «Minería y extractivismos. diálogo entre la academia y los movimientos sociales». Granada, 10 May 2019.

-«Mining the Amazon: large-scale mining and conflicts in Southern Ecuador». Symposium: Global dynamics and socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America, ICA 2018, Salamanca, 19 July 2018.

-«Extractivism and socio-environmental conflicts: South-South connections». Jornadas Desalambre, Granada, 27 April 2018.

– «Peacebuilding and Environmental Justice». III Foro de la Paz. Construyendo la Paz: Justicia ambiental, Granada, 5 April 2018.

-«Conflicts over natural resources» Mesa redonda Conflictos por recursos: propuestas y alternativas desde lo local, Universidad de Jaén, 8 de febrero de 2018.

-«Struggles and collaborations against corporate science: community based environmental monitoring in areas affected by large-scale mining projects«, Seminar Indigenous Environmental Governance: Strategies and Struggles for Safeguarding the Future, Stockholm, 30 November 2017.

-“Struggling with the ‘politics of time’ in a collaborative research project in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The role of community based environmental monitoring in counterwork against large-scale mining”, Seminar Collaborative Research – Experiences from Latin America, Oslo, 22 June 2017.

-“Mining Dialogue in Ecuador: the case of the Mirador Project”, Seminar Peacebuilding in Latin America, Oslo, 21 June 2017

-Ponencia «Ciencia de resistencia: monitoreos ambientales participativos como estrategia de ‘counterwork’ en el Proyecto Mirador, Ecuador», SPRING SCHOOL: ACCIÓN-SABERES DECOLONIALES/ SEMILLEROS DE INVESTIG-ACCIÓN. Granada, 15-17 May 2017

-«Los Shuar frente al proyecto Mirador: conflicto, resistencia y etnicidad en Ecuador», Seminario Decolonial Identities: Belonging and Rejection from the Global South, Granada, 11-12 November 2016.

-«The boomerang effect: re-politization of invited spaces of participation for resistance. The case of Cascomi in Ecuador», LASA International Congress, New York City, 27-30 May 2016.

-“Minería a gran escala en Ecuador (el Proyecto Mirador): conflicto, resistencia y etnicidad”, IV Latin American Congress of Anthropology, México City, 7-10 October 2015.

-“Extracting Justice? El papel de la consulta previa en el manejo de conflictos socioambientales”, event IV Investiga UTPL. Loja, Ecuador, 13 May 2015.

-“Monitoreo de Conflictos Ambientales en Ecuador. Experiencias en el Proyecto Mirador” in the Latin American Congress of Environmental Conflicts (COLCA).Buenos Aires, Argentina, 30-31 October 2014.

-“Ecuador: estado plurinacional y multicultural” Masters Programme in Cultural Diversity, University of Granada. Melilla, Spain, 23 April 2014.

-“Percepción de los conflictos ecológico-distributivos en zonas mineras: una exploración previa al Proyecto Mirador, Ecuador” in the VI Iberoamerican Congress in Environment and Development. Quito, Ecuador, 12-13 December 2013.

-“Modelo de Monitoreo de Conflictos Socioambientales” Foro CDES. Loja, Ecuador, 3 October 2013.

-“Conflictos Ambientales: Enfoques Contemporáneos” Masters Programme in Environmental Education, University of Granada. Granada, Spain, 23 April 2013.

-“Conflictos Ambientales y Sociedad Civil. El caso de las prospecciones petróliferas en Canarias”. Center for Ecosocial Studies, University of La Laguna. Tenerife, Spain, 21 February 2013.

-“La energía nuclear: un conflicto socioambiental”. Programa Profundiza, Junta de Andalucía. Granada, Spain, 25 May 2012.

-“Uranium, reactors and technological development: relationships between de Nuclear Energy Board and the Spanish Nuclear Industry (1951-1977)” in the Symposium History of Physics in Spain during the 20th century. Barcelona, Spain, 1-2 December, 2011.

-“Mediating Environmental Conflicts” in the XIII Seminar in Culture of Peace. Tánger, Marocco, 17 Septiember, 2011.

-Workshop “Mediating Environmental Conflicts”. Masters Programme of International Studies in Peace, Conflicts and Development, Unesco Chair of Philosophy for Peace,Castellon, Spain, April 2011.

-“Legitimating nuclear energy in Spain: the role of Spanish Atomic Forum(1962-1979)” in the 4th International Conference of the European Society for History of Science. Barcelona, Spain, November 2010.

-Workshop “Mediating Environmental Conflicts” in the Advanced Course on Culture of Peace and Sustainability, organized by Centro Interdsiciplinare de Science per la Pace, Universitá di Pisa, Italy, June 2010.