Sofia Zaragocin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sofia Zaragocin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sofia |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaragocin |
| SIGNATURE | ZARAGOCIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad San Francisco de Quito |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0190-1439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 387 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Hemispheric revanchist masculinity
Our engagement with Neil Smith's concept of revanchism, particularly in relation to neoliberal urban restructuring, reframes it through the lens of masculinity at a hemispheric scale. We begin by examining the reception of Smith's work within Latin American critical geography, tracing how revanchism has been selectively appropriated and reinterpreted. We then build on existing formulations of revanchist masculinity to theorize a multiscalar forma…
Methodologies of intersectionality for disaster risk studies
Purpose This article proposes an intersectional methodological framework for disaster risk studies inspired by Latin American feminist understandings of intersectionality. In recent years, within disaster risk studies, there has been an incipient dialogue concerning feminist epistemologies and methodologies to draw out vulnerability and capacities, but these have seldom engaged with methodologies of intersectionality. Based on a pilot project car…
Cuerpo-Territorio. Lessons Learnt on a Method to Study Embodied Emotions
Qualitative researchers have strived to recenter epistemic authority and knowledge creation by increasingly engaging with Indigenous methodologies. Such effort is fundamental to decolonizing research i.e., putting the research participant in the position of the knower and facilitating the emergence of their knowledge through methods aligned with their ontoepistemology. In this paper, we introduce the method of cuerpo-territorio (body-territory) t…
Resistance to Extractivism‐Induced Water Insecurity. Does Gender Have a Role in It? A Systematic Scoping Review
Extractivist practices threaten water security and with it, people's health and livelihoods. Numerous communities around the world are engaged in the strenuous work of resistance against mining. Through our previous research, we matured a sense that women are a major force behind organizing for water security, particularly because they often refer to an embodied sense of urgency to act against ongoing extractivism to preserve their waters and ter…
Afro-Ecuadorian Women, Territory and Natural Resource Extraction in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Afro-descendant women in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, are amongst the most marginalized groups in the country. Living in a region severely affected by environmental degradation due to multiple and overlapping forms of resource extraction, they also face the impacts of drug-trafficking conflicts crossing the Colombian border, as well as institutional and everyday racism. Many of these conditions are rooted in a long history of colonialism. In this article…
Gender and public space
Commentary
Repair is about doing, (re)doing, and materiality. This plenary makes it very clear that repair means taking action, building relations, and a continuous attention to the material. The authors stress the methods of land-as-pedagogy, Black place making and the afterlives of slavery as political and cultural practices. The emphasis is on action and building relations that sustain the materiality of repair. I’d like to take up the four intersecting …
Agua-cuerpo-territorio/Water-body-territory
Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas
This article critically explores tensions concerning development from contemporary feminist thought and praxis in Latin America. In Ecuador, development is seen as an outdated and irrelevant theoretical framework from a variety of feminist perspectives, including feminist political ecology and decolonial feminisms. Nevertheless, development discourse and practices persist and are central to public policy with a gender focus throughout the country…
Geographies of the Global South and the hemispheric scale
This commentary engages with contemporary interpretations of the Global South in relation to the hemispheric scale in critical human geography. I am particularly interested in contributing to conversations on how the Global North/South divide can be untangled and challenged through a critical re-imagining of the hemispheric scale within the Latin American context. With this in mind, I ask: how does the term ‘Global South’ relate to existing decol…
Celebrando los 250 Años de Nacimiento del Buen Geógrafo Alexander von Humboldt
Durante el año 2019 en distintas partes de América Latina se celebró el nacimiento de Alexander Von Humboldt. Este texto analiza desde una geografía descolonial y anti-racista, lo que significa la celebración de Humboldt en terminos de la racialización del espacio. Asombrados de la falta de acercamientos críticos a la celebración de Humboldt, seguimos a los eventos desarrollados en el Ecuador para comprender los discursos y practicas alrededor de…
Feminismo y ambiente
El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) y la Entidad por la Igualdad de Género y el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres de las Naciones unidas (ONU Mujeres) impulsaron la convocatoria de becas para equipos de investigadoras y activistas denominada “Feminismo y ambiente. Un campo emergente en los estudios feministas en América Latina y el Caribe". Dicha convocatoria es la que da origen a esta publicación. Las propuestas de investigación…
Island feminism meets feminist geopolitics
This paper brings together reflections on island feminism with feminist geopolitics in the Latin American context. Based on ongoing qualitative research by two Ecuadorian feminist geographers, gender‐based violence spatial dynamics on one of the islands of the Galapagos archipelago – San Cristobal – is analysed. A multi‐scalar approach from the experience of Galapagueña and foreign women highlights that gender‐based violence is spatially determin…
Mapas para armar
Retomando los aportes y reflexiones surgidas en el marco del foro homónimo, celebrado en octubre de 2020, en el texto se aborda la pertinencia de la cartografía participativa en diferentes contextos de disputa, despojo o reivindicación territorial que se viven en la región latinoamericana, sobre todo por el modelo extractivo neoliberal que impera en sus economías. Se hace énfasis en los procesos seguidos por los cinco colectivos participantes par…
Feminist futurities
This reflection piece addresses how LatinX geographies primarily based in the US can engage with critical geography in Latin America. There are shared intellectual and political commitments between LatinX geographies and certain strands of critical geography in Latin America, primarily those in line with decolonial feminist geography. These geographies share the same objectives of fostering another geography based on decolonial and antiracist tho…
Descolonizando la historia oral
The English version of this article can be found here
Decolonising Oral History
In late 2019, a team of researchers and activists from Ecuador and the UK began a new oral history project, accompanying Afro‐Ecuadorian women living in the province of Esmeraldas, as they interrogated and articulated their history and heritage. The impact of coronavirus, which has hit Ecuador particularly hard, delayed the workshops and oral history interviews we had planned, but also created the space for an extended exploration of the ethics o…
Territory and decolonisation
This extended introduction to a volume on territory and decolonisation from the Global Souths highlights a series of tensions that arose in its production and discusses possible strategies for further developing dialogue on the theme. Specifically, it looks at the centrality of Latin America – as an idea, experience and epistemology – from which debates on the intersection of territory and decolonisation have been framed. The seeming hegemony of …
Cuerpo-Territorio
In the context of current decolonial geographical debates calling for action-oriented approaches to changing geographical knowledge construction, we propose cuerpo-territorio as a way to achieve this goal in Anglophone feminist geography. In Anglophone geography, emotions and embodiment have been studied through a range of ethnographic methods. There are intrinsic limitations of verbal and written data, however, because sensitive emotions might b…
Women’s organizing against extractivism
In Anglophone geography, proposals have called for the decolonization of geographical knowledge production to be focused on tangible and material manifestations of how dialogue is initiated and mediated among different ontologies and epistemologies. We strive to respond to this call by empirically cutting across the American continent to highlight the embodied and transnational dimensions of natural resource extraction. Across the Americas, extra…
Women’s resistance against the extractive industry
Feminist geography in Ecuador
Latin American feminist geography exists in historically strong academic centers in the region, such as Brazil, Mexico and Argentina with an incipient tradition in Colombia, Chile and now Ecuador. In countries like Ecuador, where institutionalized human geography perspectives are lacking, the rise of feminist geography provides the field with important reflections regarding the flow of knowledge and practice. This paper addresses two ways in whic…
Mapping gender and feminist geographies in the global context
As a way to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist geography, the journal sought to highlight the status of feminist geography across the globe. This special issue gives an overview of feminist geography as a praxis and an intellectual field across 39 countries. This process has highlighted the contemporary nature of feminist geographical knowledge construction across multiple scales and diverse conte…
Interpreting the Internet. Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America - by Friedman, Elisabeth J
Gendered Geographies of Elimination
Gendered geographies of elimination further settler colonialism's influence on conceptual discussions in human geography on contemporary forms of the place‐based death of indigenous peoples. Through work stemming from scholarship on the gendering of settler colonialism, this paper adds to narratives on place annihilation and dispossession of indigenous territory tied to the slow death of racialised, gendered and sexualised populations. Building o…
Cuerpo-Territorio
In the context of current decolonial geographical debates calling for action-oriented approaches to changing geographical knowledge construction, we propose cuerpo-territorio as a way to achieve this goal in Anglophone feminist geography. In Anglophone geography, emotions and embodiment have been studied through a range of ethnographic methods. There are intrinsic limitations of verbal and written data, however, because sensitive emotions might b…
Interventions
Gendered Geographies of Elimination
Gendered geographies of elimination further settler colonialism's influence on conceptual discussions in human geography on contemporary forms of the place‐based death of indigenous peoples. Through work stemming from scholarship on the gendering of settler colonialism, this paper adds to narratives on place annihilation and dispossession of indigenous territory tied to the slow death of racialised, gendered and sexualised populations. Building o…
Women’s organizing against extractivism
In Anglophone geography, proposals have called for the decolonization of geographical knowledge production to be focused on tangible and material manifestations of how dialogue is initiated and mediated among different ontologies and epistemologies. We strive to respond to this call by empirically cutting across the American continent to highlight the embodied and transnational dimensions of natural resource extraction. Across the Americas, extra…
Women’s resistance against the extractive industry
Mapping gender and feminist geographies in the global context
As a way to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist geography, the journal sought to highlight the status of feminist geography across the globe. This special issue gives an overview of feminist geography as a praxis and an intellectual field across 39 countries. This process has highlighted the contemporary nature of feminist geographical knowledge construction across multiple scales and diverse conte…
Territory and decolonisation
This extended introduction to a volume on territory and decolonisation from the Global Souths highlights a series of tensions that arose in its production and discusses possible strategies for further developing dialogue on the theme. Specifically, it looks at the centrality of Latin America – as an idea, experience and epistemology – from which debates on the intersection of territory and decolonisation have been framed. The seeming hegemony of …
Agua-cuerpo-territorio/Water-body-territory
Feminist futurities
This reflection piece addresses how LatinX geographies primarily based in the US can engage with critical geography in Latin America. There are shared intellectual and political commitments between LatinX geographies and certain strands of critical geography in Latin America, primarily those in line with decolonial feminist geography. These geographies share the same objectives of fostering another geography based on decolonial and antiracist tho…
Island feminism meets feminist geopolitics
This paper brings together reflections on island feminism with feminist geopolitics in the Latin American context. Based on ongoing qualitative research by two Ecuadorian feminist geographers, gender‐based violence spatial dynamics on one of the islands of the Galapagos archipelago – San Cristobal – is analysed. A multi‐scalar approach from the experience of Galapagueña and foreign women highlights that gender‐based violence is spatially determin…
Decolonising Oral History
In late 2019, a team of researchers and activists from Ecuador and the UK began a new oral history project, accompanying Afro‐Ecuadorian women living in the province of Esmeraldas, as they interrogated and articulated their history and heritage. The impact of coronavirus, which has hit Ecuador particularly hard, delayed the workshops and oral history interviews we had planned, but also created the space for an extended exploration of the ethics o…
Gender and public space
Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas
This article critically explores tensions concerning development from contemporary feminist thought and praxis in Latin America. In Ecuador, development is seen as an outdated and irrelevant theoretical framework from a variety of feminist perspectives, including feminist political ecology and decolonial feminisms. Nevertheless, development discourse and practices persist and are central to public policy with a gender focus throughout the country…
Feminist geography in Ecuador
Latin American feminist geography exists in historically strong academic centers in the region, such as Brazil, Mexico and Argentina with an incipient tradition in Colombia, Chile and now Ecuador. In countries like Ecuador, where institutionalized human geography perspectives are lacking, the rise of feminist geography provides the field with important reflections regarding the flow of knowledge and practice. This paper addresses two ways in whic…
Afro-Ecuadorian Women, Territory and Natural Resource Extraction in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Afro-descendant women in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, are amongst the most marginalized groups in the country. Living in a region severely affected by environmental degradation due to multiple and overlapping forms of resource extraction, they also face the impacts of drug-trafficking conflicts crossing the Colombian border, as well as institutional and everyday racism. Many of these conditions are rooted in a long history of colonialism. In this article…
Geographies of the Global South and the hemispheric scale
This commentary engages with contemporary interpretations of the Global South in relation to the hemispheric scale in critical human geography. I am particularly interested in contributing to conversations on how the Global North/South divide can be untangled and challenged through a critical re-imagining of the hemispheric scale within the Latin American context. With this in mind, I ask: how does the term ‘Global South’ relate to existing decol…
Gendered Geographies of Elimination
Gendered geographies of elimination further settler colonialism's influence on conceptual discussions in human geography on contemporary forms of the place‐based death of indigenous peoples. Through work stemming from scholarship on the gendering of settler colonialism, this paper adds to narratives on place annihilation and dispossession of indigenous territory tied to the slow death of racialised, gendered and sexualised populations. Building o…
Interventions
A Soldier's Buen Vivir
This article examines the connections between Buen Vivir, a radical approach to socially inclusive development in Latin America, and equality policies developed by the Ministry of Defence for the Ecuadorian armed forces. Drawing on extensive qualitative research on the Ecuadorian military, this article explores and compares the implementation of policies on crosscutting themes such as gender, interculturality and class. This article adds to the e…
Feminist geography in Ecuador
Latin American feminist geography exists in historically strong academic centers in the region, such as Brazil, Mexico and Argentina with an incipient tradition in Colombia, Chile and now Ecuador. In countries like Ecuador, where institutionalized human geography perspectives are lacking, the rise of feminist geography provides the field with important reflections regarding the flow of knowledge and practice. This paper addresses two ways in whic…
Mapping gender and feminist geographies in the global context
As a way to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist geography, the journal sought to highlight the status of feminist geography across the globe. This special issue gives an overview of feminist geography as a praxis and an intellectual field across 39 countries. This process has highlighted the contemporary nature of feminist geographical knowledge construction across multiple scales and diverse conte…
Interpreting the Internet. Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America - by Friedman, Elisabeth J
Women’s organizing against extractivism
In Anglophone geography, proposals have called for the decolonization of geographical knowledge production to be focused on tangible and material manifestations of how dialogue is initiated and mediated among different ontologies and epistemologies. We strive to respond to this call by empirically cutting across the American continent to highlight the embodied and transnational dimensions of natural resource extraction. Across the Americas, extra…
Women’s resistance against the extractive industry
Feminist futurities
This reflection piece addresses how LatinX geographies primarily based in the US can engage with critical geography in Latin America. There are shared intellectual and political commitments between LatinX geographies and certain strands of critical geography in Latin America, primarily those in line with decolonial feminist geography. These geographies share the same objectives of fostering another geography based on decolonial and antiracist tho…
Descolonizando la historia oral
The English version of this article can be found here
Decolonising Oral History
In late 2019, a team of researchers and activists from Ecuador and the UK began a new oral history project, accompanying Afro‐Ecuadorian women living in the province of Esmeraldas, as they interrogated and articulated their history and heritage. The impact of coronavirus, which has hit Ecuador particularly hard, delayed the workshops and oral history interviews we had planned, but also created the space for an extended exploration of the ethics o…
Territory and decolonisation
This extended introduction to a volume on territory and decolonisation from the Global Souths highlights a series of tensions that arose in its production and discusses possible strategies for further developing dialogue on the theme. Specifically, it looks at the centrality of Latin America – as an idea, experience and epistemology – from which debates on the intersection of territory and decolonisation have been framed. The seeming hegemony of …
Cuerpo-Territorio
In the context of current decolonial geographical debates calling for action-oriented approaches to changing geographical knowledge construction, we propose cuerpo-territorio as a way to achieve this goal in Anglophone feminist geography. In Anglophone geography, emotions and embodiment have been studied through a range of ethnographic methods. There are intrinsic limitations of verbal and written data, however, because sensitive emotions might b…
Feminismo y ambiente
El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) y la Entidad por la Igualdad de Género y el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres de las Naciones unidas (ONU Mujeres) impulsaron la convocatoria de becas para equipos de investigadoras y activistas denominada “Feminismo y ambiente. Un campo emergente en los estudios feministas en América Latina y el Caribe". Dicha convocatoria es la que da origen a esta publicación. Las propuestas de investigación…
Island feminism meets feminist geopolitics
This paper brings together reflections on island feminism with feminist geopolitics in the Latin American context. Based on ongoing qualitative research by two Ecuadorian feminist geographers, gender‐based violence spatial dynamics on one of the islands of the Galapagos archipelago – San Cristobal – is analysed. A multi‐scalar approach from the experience of Galapagueña and foreign women highlights that gender‐based violence is spatially determin…
Mapas para armar
Retomando los aportes y reflexiones surgidas en el marco del foro homónimo, celebrado en octubre de 2020, en el texto se aborda la pertinencia de la cartografía participativa en diferentes contextos de disputa, despojo o reivindicación territorial que se viven en la región latinoamericana, sobre todo por el modelo extractivo neoliberal que impera en sus economías. Se hace énfasis en los procesos seguidos por los cinco colectivos participantes par…
Questioning development from Black feminisms in Ecuador and moving towards a Black feminist political ecology in the Americas
This article critically explores tensions concerning development from contemporary feminist thought and praxis in Latin America. In Ecuador, development is seen as an outdated and irrelevant theoretical framework from a variety of feminist perspectives, including feminist political ecology and decolonial feminisms. Nevertheless, development discourse and practices persist and are central to public policy with a gender focus throughout the country…
Geographies of the Global South and the hemispheric scale
This commentary engages with contemporary interpretations of the Global South in relation to the hemispheric scale in critical human geography. I am particularly interested in contributing to conversations on how the Global North/South divide can be untangled and challenged through a critical re-imagining of the hemispheric scale within the Latin American context. With this in mind, I ask: how does the term ‘Global South’ relate to existing decol…
Celebrando los 250 Años de Nacimiento del Buen Geógrafo Alexander von Humboldt
Durante el año 2019 en distintas partes de América Latina se celebró el nacimiento de Alexander Von Humboldt. Este texto analiza desde una geografía descolonial y anti-racista, lo que significa la celebración de Humboldt en terminos de la racialización del espacio. Asombrados de la falta de acercamientos críticos a la celebración de Humboldt, seguimos a los eventos desarrollados en el Ecuador para comprender los discursos y practicas alrededor de…
Resistance to Extractivism‐Induced Water Insecurity. Does Gender Have a Role in It? A Systematic Scoping Review
Extractivist practices threaten water security and with it, people's health and livelihoods. Numerous communities around the world are engaged in the strenuous work of resistance against mining. Through our previous research, we matured a sense that women are a major force behind organizing for water security, particularly because they often refer to an embodied sense of urgency to act against ongoing extractivism to preserve their waters and ter…
Afro-Ecuadorian Women, Territory and Natural Resource Extraction in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Afro-descendant women in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, are amongst the most marginalized groups in the country. Living in a region severely affected by environmental degradation due to multiple and overlapping forms of resource extraction, they also face the impacts of drug-trafficking conflicts crossing the Colombian border, as well as institutional and everyday racism. Many of these conditions are rooted in a long history of colonialism. In this article…
Gender and public space
Commentary
Repair is about doing, (re)doing, and materiality. This plenary makes it very clear that repair means taking action, building relations, and a continuous attention to the material. The authors stress the methods of land-as-pedagogy, Black place making and the afterlives of slavery as political and cultural practices. The emphasis is on action and building relations that sustain the materiality of repair. I’d like to take up the four intersecting …
Agua-cuerpo-territorio/Water-body-territory
Hemispheric revanchist masculinity
Our engagement with Neil Smith's concept of revanchism, particularly in relation to neoliberal urban restructuring, reframes it through the lens of masculinity at a hemispheric scale. We begin by examining the reception of Smith's work within Latin American critical geography, tracing how revanchism has been selectively appropriated and reinterpreted. We then build on existing formulations of revanchist masculinity to theorize a multiscalar forma…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Geography (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Latin Americans (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works)