Diana Vela-Almeida
Biographic Data
| ID | 1414575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Vela-Almeida |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Vela-Almeida |
| SIGNATURE | VELA-ALMEIDA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7631-9750 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Articulating Sovereignties
This article examines the cycles of articulation and disarticulation between working‐class and indigenous‐campesino movements in Ecuador and Bolivia. While the former advances national‐popular sovereignty, aiming to strengthen the state against imperialism, the latter defends community‐territorial sovereignty against internal colonialism. Bridging Gramscian geography, political ecology and Latin American debates on plurinationality, we argue that…
Just energy transition and gender. A systematic review for feminist research
Urgent transition, urgent extraction? Global decarbonization, national governance, and local impacts in the Indonesian nickel industry
The shift to low-carbon societies will require large amounts of energy transition materials for batteries to support intermittent renewable energy generation. While this energy transition is still at an early phase, the risks of negative social and environmental impacts associated with the extraction of these materials are becoming increasingly apparent. The challenges associated with resource extraction are well documented. However, there are si…
Will the EU deforestation-free products regulation (Eudr) reduce tropical forest loss? Insights from three producer countries
A globally just and inclusive transition? Questioning policy representations of the European Green Deal
Climate change and transition policies are increasingly packaged as ‘green deals’ • These deals pursue continued green growth while making ambitious ethical claims. • European Green Deal discourse silence negative impacts of its need for raw material. • This justifies green growth paradigms by presenting EU as leading a just transition. • Addressing tensions between green growth and justice is key for transition policies. Climate change mitigatio…
Reinforcing path marginalization
How could we conceptualize path development taking place in regions dominated by extracting industries and subsistence economies? The article expands existing Evolutionary Economic Geography theory by focussing on extractive economies in a peripheral region that has, thus far, barely been covered. It challenges existing conceptualizations by highlighting a tin producing island in Indonesia. The article introduces the concept of path marginalizati…
Austeridad y corona-shock en Ecuador
El regreso de un Gobierno neoliberal a Ecuador desde 2017 se ha caracterizado por políticas de austeridad diseñadas para reducir la deuda estatal, a través de recortes a los programas sociales y ambientales, la privatización de las instituciones estatales y de los bienes comunes, la promoción de concesiones mineras y la corporativización de la producción alimentaria. En este artículo, examinamos los procesos organizativos que han surgido o se han…
The right to decide
This article introduces a triad of participation as an explanatory framework that places more emphasis on the distinction between participation, decision-making and consent in politicizing extractive governance in three Latin American countries. To explore this issue, we consider the institutional mechanisms of participation from above expressed in the legislation of Mexico, Ecuador and Peru, as well as diverse experiences of community resistance…
The role of local participation in the governance of natural resource extraction
This article introduces the special section on "The role of local participation in the governance of natural resource extraction". It highlights the inherent conflicts between official techno-regulatory and corporate schemes for citizen engagement and bottom-up, community-led participatory mechanisms for decision-making in extractive governance. This special section offers empirically and theoretically innovative analyses of participatory process…
Consultation in Ecuador
An analysis of five lawsuits against the infringement of the rights to participation illustrates that effective compliance with free prior and informed consultation and popular consultation on extractive projects in Ecuador is compromised by state institutional fragility. While suits on the rights to participation have served as strategies to halt extractive projects that lack prior consultation, extractive activities continue to present great ri…
Seeing like the people
The Cordillera del Condor in the Ecuadorian Amazon has been analyzed frequently in the literature of extractivism in Latin America, due to the current mining pressure on this territory. Mining is, however, the most recent in a long history of territorial transformations in the region. The production of territory in the Cordillera del Condor is the result of a complex historical accumulation of events, motivated by the political economy of the cou…
Territorial partitions, the production of mining territory and the building of a post-neoliberal and plurinational state in Ecuador
The building of mining discourses and the politics of scale in Ecuador
Setting the limits to extraction
The building of mining discourses and the politics of scale in Ecuador
Territorial partitions, the production of mining territory and the building of a post-neoliberal and plurinational state in Ecuador
The right to decide
This article introduces a triad of participation as an explanatory framework that places more emphasis on the distinction between participation, decision-making and consent in politicizing extractive governance in three Latin American countries. To explore this issue, we consider the institutional mechanisms of participation from above expressed in the legislation of Mexico, Ecuador and Peru, as well as diverse experiences of community resistance…
The role of local participation in the governance of natural resource extraction
This article introduces the special section on "The role of local participation in the governance of natural resource extraction". It highlights the inherent conflicts between official techno-regulatory and corporate schemes for citizen engagement and bottom-up, community-led participatory mechanisms for decision-making in extractive governance. This special section offers empirically and theoretically innovative analyses of participatory process…
Seeing like the people
The Cordillera del Condor in the Ecuadorian Amazon has been analyzed frequently in the literature of extractivism in Latin America, due to the current mining pressure on this territory. Mining is, however, the most recent in a long history of territorial transformations in the region. The production of territory in the Cordillera del Condor is the result of a complex historical accumulation of events, motivated by the political economy of the cou…
A globally just and inclusive transition? Questioning policy representations of the European Green Deal
Climate change and transition policies are increasingly packaged as ‘green deals’ • These deals pursue continued green growth while making ambitious ethical claims. • European Green Deal discourse silence negative impacts of its need for raw material. • This justifies green growth paradigms by presenting EU as leading a just transition. • Addressing tensions between green growth and justice is key for transition policies. Climate change mitigatio…
Consultation in Ecuador
An analysis of five lawsuits against the infringement of the rights to participation illustrates that effective compliance with free prior and informed consultation and popular consultation on extractive projects in Ecuador is compromised by state institutional fragility. While suits on the rights to participation have served as strategies to halt extractive projects that lack prior consultation, extractive activities continue to present great ri…
Setting the limits to extraction
The building of mining discourses and the politics of scale in Ecuador
Territorial partitions, the production of mining territory and the building of a post-neoliberal and plurinational state in Ecuador
Seeing like the people
The Cordillera del Condor in the Ecuadorian Amazon has been analyzed frequently in the literature of extractivism in Latin America, due to the current mining pressure on this territory. Mining is, however, the most recent in a long history of territorial transformations in the region. The production of territory in the Cordillera del Condor is the result of a complex historical accumulation of events, motivated by the political economy of the cou…
The right to decide
This article introduces a triad of participation as an explanatory framework that places more emphasis on the distinction between participation, decision-making and consent in politicizing extractive governance in three Latin American countries. To explore this issue, we consider the institutional mechanisms of participation from above expressed in the legislation of Mexico, Ecuador and Peru, as well as diverse experiences of community resistance…
The role of local participation in the governance of natural resource extraction
This article introduces the special section on "The role of local participation in the governance of natural resource extraction". It highlights the inherent conflicts between official techno-regulatory and corporate schemes for citizen engagement and bottom-up, community-led participatory mechanisms for decision-making in extractive governance. This special section offers empirically and theoretically innovative analyses of participatory process…
Consultation in Ecuador
An analysis of five lawsuits against the infringement of the rights to participation illustrates that effective compliance with free prior and informed consultation and popular consultation on extractive projects in Ecuador is compromised by state institutional fragility. While suits on the rights to participation have served as strategies to halt extractive projects that lack prior consultation, extractive activities continue to present great ri…
Austeridad y corona-shock en Ecuador
El regreso de un Gobierno neoliberal a Ecuador desde 2017 se ha caracterizado por políticas de austeridad diseñadas para reducir la deuda estatal, a través de recortes a los programas sociales y ambientales, la privatización de las instituciones estatales y de los bienes comunes, la promoción de concesiones mineras y la corporativización de la producción alimentaria. En este artículo, examinamos los procesos organizativos que han surgido o se han…
Reinforcing path marginalization
How could we conceptualize path development taking place in regions dominated by extracting industries and subsistence economies? The article expands existing Evolutionary Economic Geography theory by focussing on extractive economies in a peripheral region that has, thus far, barely been covered. It challenges existing conceptualizations by highlighting a tin producing island in Indonesia. The article introduces the concept of path marginalizati…
A globally just and inclusive transition? Questioning policy representations of the European Green Deal
Climate change and transition policies are increasingly packaged as ‘green deals’ • These deals pursue continued green growth while making ambitious ethical claims. • European Green Deal discourse silence negative impacts of its need for raw material. • This justifies green growth paradigms by presenting EU as leading a just transition. • Addressing tensions between green growth and justice is key for transition policies. Climate change mitigatio…
Just energy transition and gender. A systematic review for feminist research
Urgent transition, urgent extraction? Global decarbonization, national governance, and local impacts in the Indonesian nickel industry
The shift to low-carbon societies will require large amounts of energy transition materials for batteries to support intermittent renewable energy generation. While this energy transition is still at an early phase, the risks of negative social and environmental impacts associated with the extraction of these materials are becoming increasingly apparent. The challenges associated with resource extraction are well documented. However, there are si…
Will the EU deforestation-free products regulation (Eudr) reduce tropical forest loss? Insights from three producer countries
Articulating Sovereignties
This article examines the cycles of articulation and disarticulation between working‐class and indigenous‐campesino movements in Ecuador and Bolivia. While the former advances national‐popular sovereignty, aiming to strengthen the state against imperialism, the latter defends community‐territorial sovereignty against internal colonialism. Bridging Gramscian geography, political ecology and Latin American debates on plurinationality, we argue that…
Economics (9 works) · Mining and Resource Management (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)