Roger Merino
Biographic Data
| ID | 133067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Merino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Merino |
| SIGNATURE | MERINO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Pacific |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0648-6203 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Unraveling lithium dreams: Emergent imaginaries and discourses in the Altiplano’s new extractive frontier
Extractivism as Nationalism: Deciphering the Imaginaries and Discourses of Resource Nationalism
By examining the mining, oil, and agro-export sectors in Peru to analyse how resource nationalism operates within a neoliberal context, this article challenges dominant interpretations that view resource nationalism as a statist approach to managing natural resources. Based on interviews with high-level government officials and analysis of state policies and public declarations by influential government and corporate actors, this article engages …
A pluriversal environmental governance? Ontological differences and knowledge co-production in scientific panels
Most models for international environmental governance acknowledge that the participation of non-state actors is critical; however, this participation is limited to a pre-political level in which scientific communities have a predominant role and indigenous ontologies are often marginalized. This article contextualizes these discussions by examining how ontological differences are incorporated or excluded in the international environmental govern…
Governing International Commons: Re-examining Environmental and Sovereignty Imaginaries in the Amazon
The international community has consistently emphasized the importance of protecting the Amazon rainforest as a global carbon reservoir and climate regulator. Basin states have historically responded by rejecting the 'internationalization of the Amazon', arguing that they have sovereign rights to exploit the area under their own development plans. By reaffirming their sovereignty rights over international environmental concerns, they have also ex…
We're an Alternative to Revitalize the Indigenous Movement”: In the Peruvian Amazon, Indigenous communities are building their own autonomous territorial governments, without state support. A leader o…
Ever since she spoke out in 2022 about an oil spill in her people’s territory in the Amazon, Olivia Bisa has faced threats and persecution. In February, after a year and a half of intimidating call
Plurinationalism from Below
Tiwanaku, Bolivia, January 21, 2016. (MARCELO PÉREZ DEL CARPIO)On February 7, 2009, thousands of Bolivians gathered for a ceremony enacting a historic new constitution. As fireworks crackled and wi
Subnational Oil Resource Governance after the Commodity Boom: The Making and Limitations of Peru’s Closing Development Gaps Plan
Indigenous sovereignties in international governance: Envisioning a plurinational Amazon
Unraveling a Political Technology: Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in Peruvian Oil and Mining Sectors
The worldwide dissemination of the right to free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) has fostered discussions about its significance for removing the social exclusion of indigenous peoples. Most studies address problems in the regulation and implementation of FPIC, but less attention is paid to how the strengths and weaknesses of indigenous organizations and their different political engagements influence FPIC processes and outcomes. Based on the…
The open veins of the Amazon: Rethinking Extractivism and Infrastructure in Extractive Frontiers
Scholars often approach the Amazon to explain the materiality of resource extraction in mining, oil, and agribusinesses. This region has been less used for theorizing the different scales and dimensions of extractivism, and its relationship with mega-infrastructures. This paper contributes to this endeavor by reflecting on the IIRSA, an ambitious portfolio of mega-infrastructure projects aimed at facilitating international trade with little conce…
Reinventing Sovereignty: Removing Colonial Legacies, Opening Plurinational Futures
Indigenous nations have historically adapted, reinterpreted, and appropriated the conceptual apparatus of international law to fight dispossession, displacements, and subjugation. They have appealed to notions such as territory and self-determination to express a different kind of sovereignty. Scholars have conceptualised this process with different terms, such as ‘shared’ or ‘overlapped’ sovereignty, ‘multiple’ or ‘relational sovereignty’, ‘nest…
Lost in Transition: Explaining Authoritarianism in Peru
∞ International reports by human rights organizations coincide that the government of Dina Boluarte in Peru has responded to social mobilization with disproportionate actions by public forces. Whereas recent scholarship explains the rising authoritarianism in the country to the weakness of political actors, this article provides a different interpretation by focusing on the political and economic legacies of the authoritarian government of Albert…
Constitution-Making in the Andes: A Decolonial Approach to Comparative Constitutional Change
How might the field of comparative constitutional change account for constitution-making processes and outcomes forged by historically subordinated and racialized social movements? Inspired by critical comparative approaches to constitutional change and engaging decolonial theory, this article explores how in the Andes of South America the “colonial question” shaped constitution-making struggles and was the rationale behind the enactment of the n…
A Decolonial Approach to Innovation? Building Paths Towards Buen Vivir
Innovation has been central to development. Yet most assumptions around innovation stem from values derived by capitalist economies such as growth, individualism, and competition which prove to only widen inequalities and promote unsustainable environmental models of extraction and consumption. This paper explores what values and assumptions would underlie innovation in development if based on an alternative ontological and epistemological stance…
The Politics of Localizing Human Rights: Chinese Policies and Corporate Practices in Latin America
The ‘Going Out’ strategy that China began in 1999 escalated to a global level with the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ in 2013. However, the lack of a clear international framework for corporate accountability accentuates the risks of human rights’ affectation by Chinese corporations, considering their controversial performance in Latin America. This article engages with the scholarly framework of international norm localization to analyze the enactme…
Conflicting Sovereignties: Global Conservation, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Nations in the Peruvian Amazon
Indigenous organizations, international actors, and national authorities portray different images of Indigenous Peoples’ relationship with the natural environment. Based on these images, these actors deploy ecological, economic, and security arguments to create or transform protected areas. By exploring three cases of conflicts over creation and management of protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon, this article maps the tensions around the differ…
Between the environment and the economy: Foreign investments, global conservation, and Indigenous nations in the Amazon
Where is the communities’ voice when their territories are intervened by either extractive projects advanced by transnational corporations or environmental initiatives advanced by global conservation actors? These actors allege that their projects deeply engage with sustainable development, in practice, however, national policies and governmental actions over the forests tend to prioritizing the environmental or the economic angle of sustainabili…
The Geopolitics of Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Harmonizing Competing Visions or Reinforcing Extractive Agriculture
In Latin America — the region with the biggest tropical forest on the planet and the largest potential for agricultural expansion — food security and food sovereignty are two competing approaches to food policies. Drawing on decolonial approaches to political geography, this paper provides a comparative analysis of food policies in the four countries (Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia) that make up the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), a supr…
The Land of Nations: Indigenous Struggles for Property and Territory in International Law
Key studies have highlighted how Western law was central to the civilizing mission of colonialism, legitimizing conquest while presenting itself as a colonizer's gift for overcoming barbarism. But law was not just an imposition to dispossess resources and accumulate labor; it was also transformed by the contestations of First Nations and the new practices deployed in settler societies. In this context, the first international legal theories were …
Localizing the indigenous environmental steward norm: The making of conservation and territorial rights in Peru
Buen vivir and the Making of Indigenous Territories in the Peruvian Amazon
Awajun, Wampis, and other Amazonian indigenous peoples in Peru have acquired title to the collective property of their native communities as a legal strategy for the defense of their ancestral territory. This strategy, however, has failed to stop the expansion of extractive industries and the degradation of their livelihoods. In response, indigenous peoples in the northern Amazon are proposing the legal recognition of their "integral territory" u…
The cynical state: Forging extractivism, neoliberalism and development in governmental spaces
Recent analyses of development and extractivism in Latin America discuss how neoliberal and post-neoliberal strategies under the political economy of resource extraction define the developmental trajectory of national regimes. As most accounts privilege the analysis of structural and historical conditions over everyday practices of state actors, this paper contributes to the discussion by explaining how extractivism and neoliberalism are shaped, …
Rethinking Indigenous Politics: The Unnoticed Struggle for Self-Determination in Peru
Most scholars characterise Peru as a country with weak indigenous movements, whose demands would have no influence in regional and national policies, even though its socio-economic structures are similar to those of Bolivia and Ecuador, where indigenous movements are stronger. Based on fieldwork in the northern Peruvian Amazon and Lima between 2012-2013 and 2016-2018, this article argues that pro-indigenous legislation enacted as a response to st…
Reimagining the Nation-State: Indigenous Peoples and the Making of Plurinationalism in Latin America
In the last two decades, the concept of plurinationalism has appeared in discussions about nationalism, statehood and multilevel governance, being formulated as a new state model that accommodates cultural diversity within the liberal state with the aim of solving nationalistic conflicts in countries marked by profound ethnic grievances, mainly in Europe. However, these discussions have paid less attention to the meaning of plurinationalism in ex…
Re-politicizing participation or reframing environmental governance? Beyond indigenous’ prior consultation and citizen participation
Re-politicizing participation or reframing environmental governance? Beyond indigenous’ prior consultation and citizen participation
The politics of extractive governance: Indigenous peoples and socio-environmental conflicts
An alternative to 'alternative development: Buen vivirand human development in Andean countries
In Bolivia and Ecuador the concept of Buen vivir, based on indigenous cosmologies, has been formulated by indigenous organisations as an alternative paradigm to mainstream development theory. It has also inspired environmentalist movements in their struggle for a different environmental governance beyond extractivism, and it has been appropriated by national governments to justify economic and social policies and their political agendas. In Peru,…
The cynical state: Forging extractivism, neoliberalism and development in governmental spaces
Recent analyses of development and extractivism in Latin America discuss how neoliberal and post-neoliberal strategies under the political economy of resource extraction define the developmental trajectory of national regimes. As most accounts privilege the analysis of structural and historical conditions over everyday practices of state actors, this paper contributes to the discussion by explaining how extractivism and neoliberalism are shaped, …
Rethinking Indigenous Politics: The Unnoticed Struggle for Self-Determination in Peru
Most scholars characterise Peru as a country with weak indigenous movements, whose demands would have no influence in regional and national policies, even though its socio-economic structures are similar to those of Bolivia and Ecuador, where indigenous movements are stronger. Based on fieldwork in the northern Peruvian Amazon and Lima between 2012-2013 and 2016-2018, this article argues that pro-indigenous legislation enacted as a response to st…
Reimagining the Nation-State: Indigenous Peoples and the Making of Plurinationalism in Latin America
In the last two decades, the concept of plurinationalism has appeared in discussions about nationalism, statehood and multilevel governance, being formulated as a new state model that accommodates cultural diversity within the liberal state with the aim of solving nationalistic conflicts in countries marked by profound ethnic grievances, mainly in Europe. However, these discussions have paid less attention to the meaning of plurinationalism in ex…
The Geopolitics of Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Harmonizing Competing Visions or Reinforcing Extractive Agriculture
In Latin America — the region with the biggest tropical forest on the planet and the largest potential for agricultural expansion — food security and food sovereignty are two competing approaches to food policies. Drawing on decolonial approaches to political geography, this paper provides a comparative analysis of food policies in the four countries (Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia) that make up the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), a supr…
Between the environment and the economy: Foreign investments, global conservation, and Indigenous nations in the Amazon
Where is the communities’ voice when their territories are intervened by either extractive projects advanced by transnational corporations or environmental initiatives advanced by global conservation actors? These actors allege that their projects deeply engage with sustainable development, in practice, however, national policies and governmental actions over the forests tend to prioritizing the environmental or the economic angle of sustainabili…
Localizing the indigenous environmental steward norm: The making of conservation and territorial rights in Peru
Buen vivir and the Making of Indigenous Territories in the Peruvian Amazon
Awajun, Wampis, and other Amazonian indigenous peoples in Peru have acquired title to the collective property of their native communities as a legal strategy for the defense of their ancestral territory. This strategy, however, has failed to stop the expansion of extractive industries and the degradation of their livelihoods. In response, indigenous peoples in the northern Amazon are proposing the legal recognition of their "integral territory" u…
The open veins of the Amazon: Rethinking Extractivism and Infrastructure in Extractive Frontiers
Scholars often approach the Amazon to explain the materiality of resource extraction in mining, oil, and agribusinesses. This region has been less used for theorizing the different scales and dimensions of extractivism, and its relationship with mega-infrastructures. This paper contributes to this endeavor by reflecting on the IIRSA, an ambitious portfolio of mega-infrastructure projects aimed at facilitating international trade with little conce…
Conflicting Sovereignties: Global Conservation, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Nations in the Peruvian Amazon
Indigenous organizations, international actors, and national authorities portray different images of Indigenous Peoples’ relationship with the natural environment. Based on these images, these actors deploy ecological, economic, and security arguments to create or transform protected areas. By exploring three cases of conflicts over creation and management of protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon, this article maps the tensions around the differ…
Indigenous sovereignties in international governance: Envisioning a plurinational Amazon
Lost in Transition: Explaining Authoritarianism in Peru
∞ International reports by human rights organizations coincide that the government of Dina Boluarte in Peru has responded to social mobilization with disproportionate actions by public forces. Whereas recent scholarship explains the rising authoritarianism in the country to the weakness of political actors, this article provides a different interpretation by focusing on the political and economic legacies of the authoritarian government of Albert…
The Politics of Localizing Human Rights: Chinese Policies and Corporate Practices in Latin America
The ‘Going Out’ strategy that China began in 1999 escalated to a global level with the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ in 2013. However, the lack of a clear international framework for corporate accountability accentuates the risks of human rights’ affectation by Chinese corporations, considering their controversial performance in Latin America. This article engages with the scholarly framework of international norm localization to analyze the enactme…
The politics of extractive governance: Indigenous peoples and socio-environmental conflicts
Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America
Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America." Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 17(1), pp. 143–144
An alternative to 'alternative development: Buen vivirand human development in Andean countries
In Bolivia and Ecuador the concept of Buen vivir, based on indigenous cosmologies, has been formulated by indigenous organisations as an alternative paradigm to mainstream development theory. It has also inspired environmentalist movements in their struggle for a different environmental governance beyond extractivism, and it has been appropriated by national governments to justify economic and social policies and their political agendas. In Peru,…
Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization and Bolivia's Indigenous Intellectuals - by Waskar Ari
Reimagining the Nation-State: Indigenous Peoples and the Making of Plurinationalism in Latin America
In the last two decades, the concept of plurinationalism has appeared in discussions about nationalism, statehood and multilevel governance, being formulated as a new state model that accommodates cultural diversity within the liberal state with the aim of solving nationalistic conflicts in countries marked by profound ethnic grievances, mainly in Europe. However, these discussions have paid less attention to the meaning of plurinationalism in ex…
Re-politicizing participation or reframing environmental governance? Beyond indigenous’ prior consultation and citizen participation
The cynical state: Forging extractivism, neoliberalism and development in governmental spaces
Recent analyses of development and extractivism in Latin America discuss how neoliberal and post-neoliberal strategies under the political economy of resource extraction define the developmental trajectory of national regimes. As most accounts privilege the analysis of structural and historical conditions over everyday practices of state actors, this paper contributes to the discussion by explaining how extractivism and neoliberalism are shaped, …
Rethinking Indigenous Politics: The Unnoticed Struggle for Self-Determination in Peru
Most scholars characterise Peru as a country with weak indigenous movements, whose demands would have no influence in regional and national policies, even though its socio-economic structures are similar to those of Bolivia and Ecuador, where indigenous movements are stronger. Based on fieldwork in the northern Peruvian Amazon and Lima between 2012-2013 and 2016-2018, this article argues that pro-indigenous legislation enacted as a response to st…
The Land of Nations: Indigenous Struggles for Property and Territory in International Law
Key studies have highlighted how Western law was central to the civilizing mission of colonialism, legitimizing conquest while presenting itself as a colonizer's gift for overcoming barbarism. But law was not just an imposition to dispossess resources and accumulate labor; it was also transformed by the contestations of First Nations and the new practices deployed in settler societies. In this context, the first international legal theories were …
Localizing the indigenous environmental steward norm: The making of conservation and territorial rights in Peru
Buen vivir and the Making of Indigenous Territories in the Peruvian Amazon
Awajun, Wampis, and other Amazonian indigenous peoples in Peru have acquired title to the collective property of their native communities as a legal strategy for the defense of their ancestral territory. This strategy, however, has failed to stop the expansion of extractive industries and the degradation of their livelihoods. In response, indigenous peoples in the northern Amazon are proposing the legal recognition of their "integral territory" u…
Constitution-Making in the Andes: A Decolonial Approach to Comparative Constitutional Change
How might the field of comparative constitutional change account for constitution-making processes and outcomes forged by historically subordinated and racialized social movements? Inspired by critical comparative approaches to constitutional change and engaging decolonial theory, this article explores how in the Andes of South America the “colonial question” shaped constitution-making struggles and was the rationale behind the enactment of the n…
A Decolonial Approach to Innovation? Building Paths Towards Buen Vivir
Innovation has been central to development. Yet most assumptions around innovation stem from values derived by capitalist economies such as growth, individualism, and competition which prove to only widen inequalities and promote unsustainable environmental models of extraction and consumption. This paper explores what values and assumptions would underlie innovation in development if based on an alternative ontological and epistemological stance…
The Politics of Localizing Human Rights: Chinese Policies and Corporate Practices in Latin America
The ‘Going Out’ strategy that China began in 1999 escalated to a global level with the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ in 2013. However, the lack of a clear international framework for corporate accountability accentuates the risks of human rights’ affectation by Chinese corporations, considering their controversial performance in Latin America. This article engages with the scholarly framework of international norm localization to analyze the enactme…
Conflicting Sovereignties: Global Conservation, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Nations in the Peruvian Amazon
Indigenous organizations, international actors, and national authorities portray different images of Indigenous Peoples’ relationship with the natural environment. Based on these images, these actors deploy ecological, economic, and security arguments to create or transform protected areas. By exploring three cases of conflicts over creation and management of protected areas in the Peruvian Amazon, this article maps the tensions around the differ…
Between the environment and the economy: Foreign investments, global conservation, and Indigenous nations in the Amazon
Where is the communities’ voice when their territories are intervened by either extractive projects advanced by transnational corporations or environmental initiatives advanced by global conservation actors? These actors allege that their projects deeply engage with sustainable development, in practice, however, national policies and governmental actions over the forests tend to prioritizing the environmental or the economic angle of sustainabili…
The Geopolitics of Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Latin America: Harmonizing Competing Visions or Reinforcing Extractive Agriculture
In Latin America — the region with the biggest tropical forest on the planet and the largest potential for agricultural expansion — food security and food sovereignty are two competing approaches to food policies. Drawing on decolonial approaches to political geography, this paper provides a comparative analysis of food policies in the four countries (Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia) that make up the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), a supr…
Reinventing Sovereignty: Removing Colonial Legacies, Opening Plurinational Futures
Indigenous nations have historically adapted, reinterpreted, and appropriated the conceptual apparatus of international law to fight dispossession, displacements, and subjugation. They have appealed to notions such as territory and self-determination to express a different kind of sovereignty. Scholars have conceptualised this process with different terms, such as ‘shared’ or ‘overlapped’ sovereignty, ‘multiple’ or ‘relational sovereignty’, ‘nest…
Lost in Transition: Explaining Authoritarianism in Peru
∞ International reports by human rights organizations coincide that the government of Dina Boluarte in Peru has responded to social mobilization with disproportionate actions by public forces. Whereas recent scholarship explains the rising authoritarianism in the country to the weakness of political actors, this article provides a different interpretation by focusing on the political and economic legacies of the authoritarian government of Albert…
We're an Alternative to Revitalize the Indigenous Movement”: In the Peruvian Amazon, Indigenous communities are building their own autonomous territorial governments, without state support. A leader o…
Ever since she spoke out in 2022 about an oil spill in her people’s territory in the Amazon, Olivia Bisa has faced threats and persecution. In February, after a year and a half of intimidating call
Plurinationalism from Below
Tiwanaku, Bolivia, January 21, 2016. (MARCELO PÉREZ DEL CARPIO)On February 7, 2009, thousands of Bolivians gathered for a ceremony enacting a historic new constitution. As fireworks crackled and wi
Subnational Oil Resource Governance after the Commodity Boom: The Making and Limitations of Peru’s Closing Development Gaps Plan
Indigenous sovereignties in international governance: Envisioning a plurinational Amazon
Unraveling a Political Technology: Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in Peruvian Oil and Mining Sectors
The worldwide dissemination of the right to free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) has fostered discussions about its significance for removing the social exclusion of indigenous peoples. Most studies address problems in the regulation and implementation of FPIC, but less attention is paid to how the strengths and weaknesses of indigenous organizations and their different political engagements influence FPIC processes and outcomes. Based on the…
The open veins of the Amazon: Rethinking Extractivism and Infrastructure in Extractive Frontiers
Scholars often approach the Amazon to explain the materiality of resource extraction in mining, oil, and agribusinesses. This region has been less used for theorizing the different scales and dimensions of extractivism, and its relationship with mega-infrastructures. This paper contributes to this endeavor by reflecting on the IIRSA, an ambitious portfolio of mega-infrastructure projects aimed at facilitating international trade with little conce…
Political science (24 works) · Indigenous (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Mining and Resource Management (12 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Political economy (11 works)