Patricio Trincado Vera: Rethinking the Margins series

Rethinking the Margins series:
 

Patricio Trincado Vera
Right to a Healthy Environment in Latin America

A seminar organised by Fair Transitions

Chair: Julie Fraser, Assistant Professor
International and European Law, School of Law, Utrecht University

Discussant: Jesse Jonkman, Assistant Professor International Development Studies
Department of Human Geography & Spatial Planning, Utrecht University

Speaker Bio
Patricio Trincado Vera is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Transboundary Legal Studies (Faculty of Law, University of Groningen). His research focuses on International Human Rights Law, the Inter-American System of Human Rights, collective rights, environmental issues, and decolonial approaches. He holds a Bachelor in Law with Certification in Public Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and an Advanced LLM in International and European Human Rights Law from Leiden University. His current PhD project is titled Renewable Energy Colonialism in the Lithium Triangle: A decolonial analysis of the European and Inter-American Systems of Human Rights.

Learn more about Patricio Trincado Vera’s work on his RUG staff page.

Chair Bio
Julie Fraser is Assistant Professor with the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and the Montaigne Centre at Utrecht University. Her research and teaching span international human rights law, transitional justice, and the intersection of human rights and the environment. She is a Senior Peace Fellow with the Public International Law & Policy Group and a board member of Fair Transitions, a platform within Utrecht University’s Institutions for Open Societies working toward inclusive and climate-resilient futures. Julie holds a PhD from Utrecht University, awarded the Max van der Stoel Prize and published by Cambridge University Press.

Learn more about Julie Fraser’s work on her UU staff page.

Discussant Bio
Jesse Jonkman is Assistant Professor of International Development Studies at Utrecht University’s Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning. Trained as a political and environmental anthropologist, his research probes how resource extraction, state-making and ecology intersect in Latin America, with a focus on gold mining in Colombia. His cum-laude PhD (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2021) won the J.C. Ruigrok Award and the VU Faculty Social Sciences Dissertation Prize. After an NWO-Rubicon fellowship at the University of New Brunswick (2022-24), he began an NWO-Veni project (2024-28) on transparency in global gold supply chains. Jonkman is the author of Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Colombia and co-editor of the journal Etnofoor.

Learn more about Jesse Jonkman’s work on his UU staff page.

Practical Information
Date and time: Tuesday 17 June, 16.00 – 17.30
Venue: Toon Peterszaal, Achter Sint Pieter 200, Utrecht University