Susan Paulson spent many years in Latin America, researching and teaching about ways in which gender, class and ethnoracial systems interact with biophysical environments, influencing the development of bodies, landscapes and ecosystems (including humans). Books she has written/edited include Masculinities and Femininities in Latin America’s Uneven Development (Routledge 2015), Masculinidades en movimiento, transformación territorial (TESEO 2013), Political Ecology across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups (Rutgers University Press 2005), Huellas de géneroen el mar, el parque y el páramo (AbyaYala 2009), and Desigualdad social y degradación ambiental en América Latina (AbyaYala 1998). After living and working for more than 20 years outside her home country of USA, she joined the University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies in 2014.
Reflections on dynamics of strategy in degrowth
The Degrowth & Strategy volume makes a case that, to bring about shared goals of eco-social transformation, we need to collaboratively bring together, honor, reflect critically on, and deliberate about a wide mix of approaches.
December 21, 2022
How do we Humans Change Course?
If climate crisis has a silver lining, it may be the power to provoke residents of high-GDP high-emission countries to question the portrayal of their own societies as “developed, ” in the sense of full-grown, perfected, complete.
June 9, 2017