Nathalia Hernandez Collaboration Bio

My research examines how technology and law produce intersecting inequalities and the role that social movements have in challenging and transforming prominent technoscientific regimes. I do so by putting in conversation the frameworks and analytic tools provided by feminist political ecology, critical race theory, and science and technology studies. I focus specifically on the study of agrarian-environmental regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean and the struggles for agrarian-environmental justice in the region. I am currently writing a book based on my dissertation. It is entitled Regenerating Mobilizations Against Extractivism.

I am a passionate educator. I draw from the intersectional tradition and decolonial thought and praxis to design and teach my courses, and to engage in grassroots-based education initiatives. I have taught in universities in the US and Colombia and participated in other educational activities with colleagues in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Cuba, among other countries.

I hold a doctorate in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago and I am currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of North Texas. I am also a member of the working group of Latin American Political Ecology from the South/ Abya Yala, affiliated with the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), and a Book Review Editor at Tapuya, Latin American Knowledge, Technology, and Society.