Carlos Espinosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 789782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlos Espinosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlos |
| FAMILY NAME | Espinosa |
| SIGNATURE | ESPINOSA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4479-4071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mobilizing rights of nature and science to contest industrial mining
Environmental justice (EJ) groups are increasingly turning to courts to address socio-ecological conflicts. Central to these efforts is the production of evidence and the translation of collective grievances into arguments recognized by judicial institutions. This article develops the concept of ‘science-based legal mobilization’ to capture the strategic use and foregrounding of scientific knowledge and expert testimony to meet evidentiary standa…
Forging territorial justice
The expansion of extractive economies in Colombia disrupts human and ecological interactions in particular places. In response, Black communities have enacted different activist strategies, including legal mobilization around the multicultural reforms that took root throughout Latin America in the 1990s. However, these legal mechanisms in Colombia reflect a Pacific-centered bias, which ties Blackness to rigid ethnic and territorial definitions, m…
Claves para la comprensión del barroco
Revista Procesos es una publicación académica semestral producida por el Área de Historia. Se propone difundir investigaciones sobre el pasado de los países andinos y sudamericanos, y promover el debate historiográfico
Conservation Conflict
Protected areas (PAs) are often seen as a solution to the biodiversity crisis, however, such conservation intervention can drive environmental change and conflict. Despite being presented as neutral and technically informed, PA establishment is highly political, often concealing social, economic, and political factors. Political ecology research examines how dominant narratives shape PA establishment, helping to better understand multi-layered co…
What roles do civil society organizations play in monitoring and reviewing the Sustainable Development Goals? An exploration of cases from Ecuador, Colombia, and Argentina
The UN 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute an international roadmap to end poverty, revert environmental degradation, and fight socio-economic inequalities. Monitoring and reviewing (M&R) processes can expose countries’ success or failure in achieving the SDGs. However, SDG M&R is a daunting task. Current mechanisms mainly rely on national statistics that lack the necessary spatial and temporal granularity. Buildin…
Reducing power disparities in large-scale mining governance through counter-expertise
La puesta en escena de la Cuarta Transformación
El texto expone que la permanencia del actual gobierno mexicano, encabezado por el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador, se explica en buena parte por una eficaz puesta en escena que proyecta la imagen de un mandatario cercano al pueblo y que descansa en un acertado manejo de escenarios, símbolos, códigos, ceremonias, guiones y rituales. Los elementos más destacados de ese montaje teatral, los analiza con base en el concepto de performatividad.…
Conocimiento como causa y medio de resistencia a la minería de gran escala
En este artículo se argumenta cómo la producción de conocimiento se ha convertido en una práctica central en los procesos de resistencia y oposición a proyectos mineros de gran escala. Se parte de la observación de que, más allá de la resistencia, los conflictos socioambientales que emergen en torno de la extracción de minerales abarcan la producción y circulación de conocimiento. Mediante tal conocimiento, los actores que se oponen a dichos proy…
Intelligibility and the intricacies of knowledge and power in transnational activism for the rights of nature
Rights of nature are promoted by transnational activists with various backgrounds. These include legal scholars, environmentalists, and indigenous leaders from the Global North and the Global South. These actors converge in their support for the reconceptualization of nature as a subject with legally enforceable rights. How is this ideational convergence fostered across different actors? What knowledge politics are configured? This article focuse…
Los mecanismos de la cooperación
Reseña de: Luna, Matilde y José Luis Velasco. (2017) Complex Associative Systems: Cooperation amid Diversity. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades
No Country for the Right Wing? Actores, trayectoria, oferta y demanda de la derecha en Ecuador
Objective/context: This article describes and analyzes the performance, supply, organization and electoral reception of the right wing in Ecuador between 1998 and 2018, a period in which this ideological tendency faced particularly adverse structural conditions. Methodology: Research was conducted through a mixed approach. The first part of the article, focused on the supply, strategies and performance of the different actors of the Ecuadorian ri…
Response to “Investigating Ministry Names for Comparative Policy Analysis
Bringing about the global movement for the rights of nature
Legal scholars, environmental organizations, indigenous groups and activists from around the world are energizing an emergent global movement on the rights of nature. To face the environmental crisis, these heterogeneous actors are coming together to reconceptualize nature as a legal subject. In this article, I examine Democracy Schools and Awakening the Dreamer Symposia (ADS) to establish where and how this emergent movement is being organized. …
Interpretive Affinities
In 2008, Ecuador adopted the world's first constitution recognizing the rights of nature. The status of nature was redefined to enable, ideally, legal interventions to protect ecosystems. This article examines the process through which rights of nature entered the Ecuadorian context by contextualizing the campaign to mobilize support for these constitutional changes launched by Fundación Pachamama, a nongovernmental organization close to indigeno…
The Advocacy of the Previously Inconceivable
The proposal to adopt the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth (UDRME) sought to challenge the hegemony of green economy at Rio+20. The essence of this proposal is the recognition of nature as a subject holding rights. Adopting a discourse analytical perspective, this article analyzes the advocacy activities for the UDRME at Rio+20 and critically reconstructs the arguments in favor of the Rights of Nature, which condense deliberati…
Tras las huellas de Rumiñahui
Tras las huellas de Rumiñahui explora las múltiples y contradictorias imágenes de este personaje que figura en las crónicas españolas y en el imaginario nacionalista de mediados del siglo XX. La minuciosa revisión de las fuentes escritas y de representaciones visuales permite a Estupiñán realizar una triple tarea: esclarecer quien fue el Rumiñahui histórico, explorar los sucesivos pasos del proceso de su idealización a manos de la historiografía …
El barroco y Bolívar Echeverría
This article examines the concept of the baroque in the works of philosopher Bolvar Echeverra. Not only does it present an exegesis of the concept of Echeverra's vision of the baroque, but it also problematizes the central categories on which Echeverra focuses in his discussions surrounding the baroque. This paper proposes that neither the distinction between use-value and exchange value, nor the idea of the baroque as an aestheticization of life…
The riddle of leaving the oil in the soil—Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT project from a discourse perspective
Interpretive Affinities
In 2008, Ecuador adopted the world's first constitution recognizing the rights of nature. The status of nature was redefined to enable, ideally, legal interventions to protect ecosystems. This article examines the process through which rights of nature entered the Ecuadorian context by contextualizing the campaign to mobilize support for these constitutional changes launched by Fundación Pachamama, a nongovernmental organization close to indigeno…
The riddle of leaving the oil in the soil—Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT project from a discourse perspective
The Advocacy of the Previously Inconceivable
The proposal to adopt the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth (UDRME) sought to challenge the hegemony of green economy at Rio+20. The essence of this proposal is the recognition of nature as a subject holding rights. Adopting a discourse analytical perspective, this article analyzes the advocacy activities for the UDRME at Rio+20 and critically reconstructs the arguments in favor of the Rights of Nature, which condense deliberati…
No Country for the Right Wing? Actores, trayectoria, oferta y demanda de la derecha en Ecuador
Objective/context: This article describes and analyzes the performance, supply, organization and electoral reception of the right wing in Ecuador between 1998 and 2018, a period in which this ideological tendency faced particularly adverse structural conditions. Methodology: Research was conducted through a mixed approach. The first part of the article, focused on the supply, strategies and performance of the different actors of the Ecuadorian ri…
Reducing power disparities in large-scale mining governance through counter-expertise
Conservation Conflict
Protected areas (PAs) are often seen as a solution to the biodiversity crisis, however, such conservation intervention can drive environmental change and conflict. Despite being presented as neutral and technically informed, PA establishment is highly political, often concealing social, economic, and political factors. Political ecology research examines how dominant narratives shape PA establishment, helping to better understand multi-layered co…
Bringing about the global movement for the rights of nature
Legal scholars, environmental organizations, indigenous groups and activists from around the world are energizing an emergent global movement on the rights of nature. To face the environmental crisis, these heterogeneous actors are coming together to reconceptualize nature as a legal subject. In this article, I examine Democracy Schools and Awakening the Dreamer Symposia (ADS) to establish where and how this emergent movement is being organized. …
The riddle of leaving the oil in the soil—Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT project from a discourse perspective
Tras las huellas de Rumiñahui
Tras las huellas de Rumiñahui explora las múltiples y contradictorias imágenes de este personaje que figura en las crónicas españolas y en el imaginario nacionalista de mediados del siglo XX. La minuciosa revisión de las fuentes escritas y de representaciones visuales permite a Estupiñán realizar una triple tarea: esclarecer quien fue el Rumiñahui histórico, explorar los sucesivos pasos del proceso de su idealización a manos de la historiografía …
El barroco y Bolívar Echeverría
This article examines the concept of the baroque in the works of philosopher Bolvar Echeverra. Not only does it present an exegesis of the concept of Echeverra's vision of the baroque, but it also problematizes the central categories on which Echeverra focuses in his discussions surrounding the baroque. This paper proposes that neither the distinction between use-value and exchange value, nor the idea of the baroque as an aestheticization of life…
The Advocacy of the Previously Inconceivable
The proposal to adopt the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth (UDRME) sought to challenge the hegemony of green economy at Rio+20. The essence of this proposal is the recognition of nature as a subject holding rights. Adopting a discourse analytical perspective, this article analyzes the advocacy activities for the UDRME at Rio+20 and critically reconstructs the arguments in favor of the Rights of Nature, which condense deliberati…
Interpretive Affinities
In 2008, Ecuador adopted the world's first constitution recognizing the rights of nature. The status of nature was redefined to enable, ideally, legal interventions to protect ecosystems. This article examines the process through which rights of nature entered the Ecuadorian context by contextualizing the campaign to mobilize support for these constitutional changes launched by Fundación Pachamama, a nongovernmental organization close to indigeno…
Bringing about the global movement for the rights of nature
Legal scholars, environmental organizations, indigenous groups and activists from around the world are energizing an emergent global movement on the rights of nature. To face the environmental crisis, these heterogeneous actors are coming together to reconceptualize nature as a legal subject. In this article, I examine Democracy Schools and Awakening the Dreamer Symposia (ADS) to establish where and how this emergent movement is being organized. …
Response to “Investigating Ministry Names for Comparative Policy Analysis
Intelligibility and the intricacies of knowledge and power in transnational activism for the rights of nature
Rights of nature are promoted by transnational activists with various backgrounds. These include legal scholars, environmentalists, and indigenous leaders from the Global North and the Global South. These actors converge in their support for the reconceptualization of nature as a subject with legally enforceable rights. How is this ideational convergence fostered across different actors? What knowledge politics are configured? This article focuse…
Los mecanismos de la cooperación
Reseña de: Luna, Matilde y José Luis Velasco. (2017) Complex Associative Systems: Cooperation amid Diversity. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades
No Country for the Right Wing? Actores, trayectoria, oferta y demanda de la derecha en Ecuador
Objective/context: This article describes and analyzes the performance, supply, organization and electoral reception of the right wing in Ecuador between 1998 and 2018, a period in which this ideological tendency faced particularly adverse structural conditions. Methodology: Research was conducted through a mixed approach. The first part of the article, focused on the supply, strategies and performance of the different actors of the Ecuadorian ri…
Conocimiento como causa y medio de resistencia a la minería de gran escala
En este artículo se argumenta cómo la producción de conocimiento se ha convertido en una práctica central en los procesos de resistencia y oposición a proyectos mineros de gran escala. Se parte de la observación de que, más allá de la resistencia, los conflictos socioambientales que emergen en torno de la extracción de minerales abarcan la producción y circulación de conocimiento. Mediante tal conocimiento, los actores que se oponen a dichos proy…
Reducing power disparities in large-scale mining governance through counter-expertise
La puesta en escena de la Cuarta Transformación
El texto expone que la permanencia del actual gobierno mexicano, encabezado por el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador, se explica en buena parte por una eficaz puesta en escena que proyecta la imagen de un mandatario cercano al pueblo y que descansa en un acertado manejo de escenarios, símbolos, códigos, ceremonias, guiones y rituales. Los elementos más destacados de ese montaje teatral, los analiza con base en el concepto de performatividad.…
What roles do civil society organizations play in monitoring and reviewing the Sustainable Development Goals? An exploration of cases from Ecuador, Colombia, and Argentina
The UN 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute an international roadmap to end poverty, revert environmental degradation, and fight socio-economic inequalities. Monitoring and reviewing (M&R) processes can expose countries’ success or failure in achieving the SDGs. However, SDG M&R is a daunting task. Current mechanisms mainly rely on national statistics that lack the necessary spatial and temporal granularity. Buildin…
Conservation Conflict
Protected areas (PAs) are often seen as a solution to the biodiversity crisis, however, such conservation intervention can drive environmental change and conflict. Despite being presented as neutral and technically informed, PA establishment is highly political, often concealing social, economic, and political factors. Political ecology research examines how dominant narratives shape PA establishment, helping to better understand multi-layered co…
Claves para la comprensión del barroco
Revista Procesos es una publicación académica semestral producida por el Área de Historia. Se propone difundir investigaciones sobre el pasado de los países andinos y sudamericanos, y promover el debate historiográfico
Forging territorial justice
The expansion of extractive economies in Colombia disrupts human and ecological interactions in particular places. In response, Black communities have enacted different activist strategies, including legal mobilization around the multicultural reforms that took root throughout Latin America in the 1990s. However, these legal mechanisms in Colombia reflect a Pacific-centered bias, which ties Blackness to rigid ethnic and territorial definitions, m…
Mobilizing rights of nature and science to contest industrial mining
Environmental justice (EJ) groups are increasingly turning to courts to address socio-ecological conflicts. Central to these efforts is the production of evidence and the translation of collective grievances into arguments recognized by judicial institutions. This article develops the concept of ‘science-based legal mobilization’ to capture the strategic use and foregrounding of scientific knowledge and expert testimony to meet evidentiary standa…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Mining and Resource Management (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental law and policy (5 works) · Humanities (5 works)