Pablo Arias-Benavides

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Graduate Student

Contact info

Email:
pablo.ariasbenavides@uga.edu
Research Interests:

Rural and Peasant Studies; Conflict, Peace, and Rights; Political Ecology; More-than-Human Geographies

Pablo is broadly trained in Anthropology and Latin American Studies, and bases his research in Costa Rica. He is interested in ethnography and orature, history, landscapes, and social theory. Pablo uses a framework informed by Political Ecology, Political Economy, critical and decolonial scholarship to analyze global phenomena like colonialism, development, governance, environmental change,  and human-environment relationships as they unfold in local space and everyday life.

Education:

B.A. Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

M.A. Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico

Selected Publications:


Arias-Benavides, P. (2017). First as Farce: Symbolic Politics and Donald Trump’s Hands. Global Societies Journal, 5. 

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39p5p4th

 

Arias-Benavides, Pablo Alonso. "The Bearing Earth: Colonization, Conservation, and Political Ecology in Costa Rica (Coto Brus 1948 - Present)." (2023).

 https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ltam_etds/65

 

Hernandez, A., Arias-Benavides, P., Machada, C.M., Pame, O., Main, A. & Moller, P.(Forthcoming). “Pathways to Sustainability: Industry, Development, Business, Agriculture,Economy, and Politics”. In (Ed. Zilli Vieira, C.)
The Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on the Natural Environment and Societies During the Contemporary Period 
. CRC Press

 
 
 
 
Research Areas:
People, Place, and Identity
Earth, Environment, and Climate

Major Professor

Amy Trauger

Professor
atrauger@uga.edu

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