Malayna Raftopoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 230520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malayna Raftopoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malayna |
| FAMILY NAME | Raftopoulos |
| SIGNATURE | RAFTOPOULOS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5619-8496 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating the hybrid media landscape? Danish green NGOs’ use of digital platforms for internal and external communication
Operating within a hybrid media environment, NGOs face ongoing digital platform expansions and shifting user preferences, demanding continual adaptation of communication strategies. While research largely overlooks internal communication practices, we examine how 20 Danish green NGOs navigate multiple platforms for both external and internal communication. Although advocacy and operational NGOs share similar platform preferences, they manage mult…
Fragmenting deliberation: Green hydrogen and the conditions for public participation
Counter-hegemonic resistance on the extractive frontier in Peru: Exploring the Legal-Political Nexus
This article examines how power is permanently contested in the extractive frontier, forcing extractive investments to re-accommodate or to retreat. Using the Chuschi mining conflict as a case study, it argues that the anti-mining mobilization appropriated different rights discourses that span different historical blocs to carve out counter-hegemonic spaces of resistance that reproduce a political subjectivity, which is not subsumed by extractivi…
Peri-urban communities and precarious temporality in Cochabamba, Bolivia: Class, indigeneity, and social exclusion
Addresses new forms of social inequalities in expanding urban areas in Latin America. • Explores how peri-urban spaces destabilise traditional ethnic and class divisions. • Argues that peri-urban environments challenge top-down approaches to mobility. • Shows how alternative modalities adaptation occur in peri-urban environments. One of the key challenges facing urban areas in the twenty-first century is how to promote inclusive developmental pol…
Problematising environmental governance and the politics of natural resource sovereignty in Brazil
Frack-Off: Social Media Fights Against Fracking in Argentina
This article explores how the anti-fracking movements in the province of Mendoza, Argentina, have used Twitter to shape narratives around anti-fracking. Adopting a dynamic view of collective action frames, the article shows that the anti-fracking movements have developed multiple frames to articulate their struggle and justify their grievances, and how procedural injustice and environmental values have been motivational factors for local citizens…
Latin American readings of Gramsci and the Bolivian indigenous nationalist state
This article engages critically with recent theories on the eclipse of Gramsci’s notion of hegemony in the face of twenty-first-century practices of grassroots activism. It demonstrates how hegemony, and other concepts reworked from Gramscian thought, have been used as the theoretical basis for assimilating indigeneity into a new form of nationalism in Bolivia. The first section of this piece examines the role of Gramscian thought in the emergenc…
Provincialising nature: Multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in Latin America
This book offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices within Latin America. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and identity, and their role in understanding recent and current practices of climate change and environmental policy. Using these frameworks, the chapters o…
Ecocide in the Amazon: The contested politics of environmental rights in Brazil
Though a discussion of the 2019 Brazilian Amazon fires, this article examines the contested politics of environmental rights in Brazil. It analyses how the concept of ecocide can offer a useful lens with which to articulate the socio-ecological consequences of President Bolsonaro’s extractive imperialism, and the persistent failure of current international governance frameworks to address the continuing widespread destruction of the natural envir…
Rural Community-Based Tourism and its Impact on Ecological Consciousness, Environmental Stewardship and Social Structures
Since rural community-based tourism (RCBT) emerged, it has been widely considered to be an effective means of promoting development and conserving natural resources. Through a political ecology approach, this article explores the potential of RCBT to foster long-term stewardship and transformations in ecological consciousness among campesino communities in unprotected areas. Using Cocachimba as a case study, the article reveals that while RCBT ca…
Implementing free prior and informed consent: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), the challenges of Redd+ and the case for the precautionary principle
Over 21 years after the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (September 2007 – hereafter UNDRIP) was passed, it is useful to examine the functionality and utility of a core principle it contains- the notion of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) with respect to the twin challenges of environmental destruction and a key ‘mitigation’ policy: REDD+. While UNDRIP, and to a lesser extent, the International Labour Organisat…
Promises of hope or threats of domination: Chinese mining in Greenland
Social-Environmental Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights in Latin America
Contemporary debates on social-environmental conflicts, extractivism and human rights in Latin America
This opening contribution to ‘Social-Environmental Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights in Latin America’ analyses how human rights have emerged as a weapon in the political battleground over the environment as natural resource extraction has become an increasingly contested and politicised form of development. It examines the link between human rights abuses and extractivism, arguing that this new cycle of protests has opened up new politica…
Redd+ and human rights: Addressing the urgent need for a full community-based human rights impact assessment
This article makes the case for carrying out a series of community-based human rights impact assessments (HRIA) on the international mechanism, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation plus conservation and sustainable development (REDD+). In outlining the prima facie case, this article discusses the key areas of concern surrounding REDD+ and the repercussions for the rights and interests of local forest and indigenous communi…
Contemporary debates on social-environmental conflicts, extractivism and human rights in Latin America
This opening contribution to ‘Social-Environmental Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights in Latin America’ analyses how human rights have emerged as a weapon in the political battleground over the environment as natural resource extraction has become an increasingly contested and politicised form of development. It examines the link between human rights abuses and extractivism, arguing that this new cycle of protests has opened up new politica…
Ecocide in the Amazon: The contested politics of environmental rights in Brazil
Though a discussion of the 2019 Brazilian Amazon fires, this article examines the contested politics of environmental rights in Brazil. It analyses how the concept of ecocide can offer a useful lens with which to articulate the socio-ecological consequences of President Bolsonaro’s extractive imperialism, and the persistent failure of current international governance frameworks to address the continuing widespread destruction of the natural envir…
Promises of hope or threats of domination: Chinese mining in Greenland
Fragmenting deliberation: Green hydrogen and the conditions for public participation
Counter-hegemonic resistance on the extractive frontier in Peru: Exploring the Legal-Political Nexus
This article examines how power is permanently contested in the extractive frontier, forcing extractive investments to re-accommodate or to retreat. Using the Chuschi mining conflict as a case study, it argues that the anti-mining mobilization appropriated different rights discourses that span different historical blocs to carve out counter-hegemonic spaces of resistance that reproduce a political subjectivity, which is not subsumed by extractivi…
Peri-urban communities and precarious temporality in Cochabamba, Bolivia: Class, indigeneity, and social exclusion
Addresses new forms of social inequalities in expanding urban areas in Latin America. • Explores how peri-urban spaces destabilise traditional ethnic and class divisions. • Argues that peri-urban environments challenge top-down approaches to mobility. • Shows how alternative modalities adaptation occur in peri-urban environments. One of the key challenges facing urban areas in the twenty-first century is how to promote inclusive developmental pol…
Rural Community-Based Tourism and its Impact on Ecological Consciousness, Environmental Stewardship and Social Structures
Since rural community-based tourism (RCBT) emerged, it has been widely considered to be an effective means of promoting development and conserving natural resources. Through a political ecology approach, this article explores the potential of RCBT to foster long-term stewardship and transformations in ecological consciousness among campesino communities in unprotected areas. Using Cocachimba as a case study, the article reveals that while RCBT ca…
Implementing free prior and informed consent: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), the challenges of Redd+ and the case for the precautionary principle
Over 21 years after the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (September 2007 – hereafter UNDRIP) was passed, it is useful to examine the functionality and utility of a core principle it contains- the notion of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) with respect to the twin challenges of environmental destruction and a key ‘mitigation’ policy: REDD+. While UNDRIP, and to a lesser extent, the International Labour Organisat…
Redd+ and human rights: Addressing the urgent need for a full community-based human rights impact assessment
This article makes the case for carrying out a series of community-based human rights impact assessments (HRIA) on the international mechanism, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation plus conservation and sustainable development (REDD+). In outlining the prima facie case, this article discusses the key areas of concern surrounding REDD+ and the repercussions for the rights and interests of local forest and indigenous communi…
Redd+ and human rights: Addressing the urgent need for a full community-based human rights impact assessment
This article makes the case for carrying out a series of community-based human rights impact assessments (HRIA) on the international mechanism, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation plus conservation and sustainable development (REDD+). In outlining the prima facie case, this article discusses the key areas of concern surrounding REDD+ and the repercussions for the rights and interests of local forest and indigenous communi…
Contemporary debates on social-environmental conflicts, extractivism and human rights in Latin America
This opening contribution to ‘Social-Environmental Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights in Latin America’ analyses how human rights have emerged as a weapon in the political battleground over the environment as natural resource extraction has become an increasingly contested and politicised form of development. It examines the link between human rights abuses and extractivism, arguing that this new cycle of protests has opened up new politica…
Promises of hope or threats of domination: Chinese mining in Greenland
Social-Environmental Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights in Latin America
Implementing free prior and informed consent: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), the challenges of Redd+ and the case for the precautionary principle
Over 21 years after the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (September 2007 – hereafter UNDRIP) was passed, it is useful to examine the functionality and utility of a core principle it contains- the notion of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) with respect to the twin challenges of environmental destruction and a key ‘mitigation’ policy: REDD+. While UNDRIP, and to a lesser extent, the International Labour Organisat…
Provincialising nature: Multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in Latin America
This book offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices within Latin America. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and identity, and their role in understanding recent and current practices of climate change and environmental policy. Using these frameworks, the chapters o…
Ecocide in the Amazon: The contested politics of environmental rights in Brazil
Though a discussion of the 2019 Brazilian Amazon fires, this article examines the contested politics of environmental rights in Brazil. It analyses how the concept of ecocide can offer a useful lens with which to articulate the socio-ecological consequences of President Bolsonaro’s extractive imperialism, and the persistent failure of current international governance frameworks to address the continuing widespread destruction of the natural envir…
Rural Community-Based Tourism and its Impact on Ecological Consciousness, Environmental Stewardship and Social Structures
Since rural community-based tourism (RCBT) emerged, it has been widely considered to be an effective means of promoting development and conserving natural resources. Through a political ecology approach, this article explores the potential of RCBT to foster long-term stewardship and transformations in ecological consciousness among campesino communities in unprotected areas. Using Cocachimba as a case study, the article reveals that while RCBT ca…
Latin American readings of Gramsci and the Bolivian indigenous nationalist state
This article engages critically with recent theories on the eclipse of Gramsci’s notion of hegemony in the face of twenty-first-century practices of grassroots activism. It demonstrates how hegemony, and other concepts reworked from Gramscian thought, have been used as the theoretical basis for assimilating indigeneity into a new form of nationalism in Bolivia. The first section of this piece examines the role of Gramscian thought in the emergenc…
Frack-Off: Social Media Fights Against Fracking in Argentina
This article explores how the anti-fracking movements in the province of Mendoza, Argentina, have used Twitter to shape narratives around anti-fracking. Adopting a dynamic view of collective action frames, the article shows that the anti-fracking movements have developed multiple frames to articulate their struggle and justify their grievances, and how procedural injustice and environmental values have been motivational factors for local citizens…
Peri-urban communities and precarious temporality in Cochabamba, Bolivia: Class, indigeneity, and social exclusion
Addresses new forms of social inequalities in expanding urban areas in Latin America. • Explores how peri-urban spaces destabilise traditional ethnic and class divisions. • Argues that peri-urban environments challenge top-down approaches to mobility. • Shows how alternative modalities adaptation occur in peri-urban environments. One of the key challenges facing urban areas in the twenty-first century is how to promote inclusive developmental pol…
Problematising environmental governance and the politics of natural resource sovereignty in Brazil
Fragmenting deliberation: Green hydrogen and the conditions for public participation
Counter-hegemonic resistance on the extractive frontier in Peru: Exploring the Legal-Political Nexus
This article examines how power is permanently contested in the extractive frontier, forcing extractive investments to re-accommodate or to retreat. Using the Chuschi mining conflict as a case study, it argues that the anti-mining mobilization appropriated different rights discourses that span different historical blocs to carve out counter-hegemonic spaces of resistance that reproduce a political subjectivity, which is not subsumed by extractivi…
Navigating the hybrid media landscape? Danish green NGOs’ use of digital platforms for internal and external communication
Operating within a hybrid media environment, NGOs face ongoing digital platform expansions and shifting user preferences, demanding continual adaptation of communication strategies. While research largely overlooks internal communication practices, we examine how 20 Danish green NGOs navigate multiple platforms for both external and internal communication. Although advocacy and operational NGOs share similar platform preferences, they manage mult…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Human rights (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Environmental law and policy (4 works)