Carlota McAllister

Political Ecology

Political Ecology is the study of how social power relations are entwined with environmental processes, in contexts such as food production, extractive industries, climate change vulnerability and urbanization. EUC researchers are examining these processes in contexts as diverse as Indigenous communities and urban peripheries in Canada, the forests of Costa Rica, water resources in Chile, […]

Water as moral substance in Chilean Patagonia

“Water is life” is a key slogan for anti-extractivist movements, particularly in the Americas. In a project that examines a dam conflict in the remote Aysén region of Chilean Patagonia, Professor Carlota McAllister explores how gauchos living in river valleys threatened with damming draw on this substance and the histories of its use on this “last frontier” […]