Dr. Diana Vela Almeida
Assistant Professor
Publications
2023
Scholarly publications
Vela Almeida, D., Kolinjivadi, V., Ferrando, T., Roy, B., Herrera, H., Vecchione Gonçalves, M., & Van Hecken, G. (2023). The “Greening” of Empire: The European Green Deal as the EU first agenda. Political Geography. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629823001038
Almeida, D. V., & Karlsen, A. (2023, Jul). Reinforcing path marginalization: revealing the unaccounted labor organization at a mining frontier in Indonesia. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad018
2022
Scholarly publications
Vela Almeida, D. (2022). La “ecologización” del imperio: El Pacto Verde Europeo como agenda impuesta para el Sur Global. Abstract from IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología Política.
Bracena, I., Perez, A., & Vela Almeida, D. (2022). Nuevos Pactos Verdes, ¿solución o problema?: editorial. Ecología Política , 64, 4-9. https://doi.org/10.53368/EP64NPVed01
Indra Kurniawan, N., Lujala, P., Angen Rye, S., & Vela Almeida, D. (2022). The role of local participation in the governance of natural resource extraction. Extractive Industries and Society, 9, Article 101029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.101029
Vela Almeida, D. (2022). Cherishing the reproductive work within academia for securing emancipatory work outside academia–commentary to Refstie. Fennia, 200(1), 78-80. https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.124807
Vela Almeida, D., Gonzalez, A., Gavilán, I., Fenner Sánchez, G., Torres, N., & Ysunza, V. (2022). The right to decide: a triad of participation in politicizing extractive governance in Latin America. Extractive Industries and Society, 9, Article 100875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.01.010
Popularising publications
Vela Almeida, D. (2022). Peran Perempuan di Belitung: Ekonomi Perawatan dan Penghidupan Keluarga Juru Sebrang dan Perempuan Pengumpul Kerang. In N. Indra Kurniawan, & M. Djindan (Eds.), Keluar dari Ketergantungan Timah: Mencari Ekonomi Alternatif dan Berkelanjutan di Belitung Universitas Gadjah Mada.
2021
Scholarly publications
Vela Almeida, D., Lyall, A., Lasso, G., & Andreucci, D. (2021). Austeridad y corona-shock en Ecuador: Resistencias y ecologismos antineoliberales. Ecología Política , 62, 28-38.
Vela Almeida, D., Lyall, A., Lasso, G., & Andreucci, D. (2021). Resisting Austerity in the Era of COVID-19: Between Nationwide Mobilisation and Decentralised Organising in Ecuador. In R. Calvario, M. Kaika, & G. Velegrakis (Eds.), The Political Ecology of Austerity Routledge.
Vela Almeida, D., & Torres, N. (2021). The consultation in Ecuador, institutional fragility and participation in National Extractive Policy. Latin American Perspectives, 48(3), 172-191. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X211008148
Popularising publications
Vela Almeida, D. (2021). Política climàtica i ambientalisme corporatiu en la transició verda europea. Nous Horitzons , 223, 74-77.
2020
Scholarly publications
Vela Almeida, D. (2020). Ambientalismo corporativo: entre extractivismo, extrema derecha y crisis ambiental. Ecología Política , 59, 12-16.
Vela Almeida, D. (2020). Seeing like the people: a history of territory and resistance in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. Journal of Political Ecology, 27(1), 1110-1127. https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23286
Vela Almeida, D., Zaragocín, S., Bayón, M., & Arrazola, I. (2020). Imaginando territorios plurales de vida: una lectura feminista de las resistencias en los movimientos socio-territoriales en el Ecuador. Journal of Latin American Geography, 19(2), 87-109. https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.2020.0029
Moreano, M., & Vela Almeida, D. (2020). El lugar de la ecología política dentro de la geografía latinoamericana: el caso de CLAG. Journal of Latin American Geography, 19(1), 74-83. https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.2020.0009
2019
Scholarly publications
Vela Almeida, D. (2019). Particiones territoriales: territorio minero y la construcción de un estado postneoliberal y plurinacional en Ecuador. In Geografía Crítica para detener el despojo de los territorios: teorías y experiencias en Ecuador Abya-Yala.
Kolinjivadi, V., Vela Almeida, D., & Martineau, J. (2019). Can the planet be saved in Time? On the temporalities of socionature, the clock and the limits debate. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 3(3), 904-926. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619891874
2018
Scholarly publications
Vela Almeida, D. (2018). Territorial partitions, the production of mining territory and the building of a post-neoliberal and plurinational state in Ecuador. Political Geography, 62, 126-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.10.011
Vela Almeida, D., Kolinjivadi, V., & Kosoy, N. (2018). The building of mining discourses and the politics of scale in Ecuador. World Development, 103, 188-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.10.025
2017
Scholarly publications
Kolinjivadi, V., van Hecken, G., Vela Almeida, D., Dupras, J., & Kosoy, N. (2017). Neoliberal performatives and the ‘making’ of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). Progress in Human Geography, 43(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517735707
2016
Scholarly publications
Vela Almeida, D., Kuijk, F., Wyseure, G., & Kosoy, N. (2016). Lessons from Yanacocha: assessing mining impacts on hydrological systems and water distribution in the Cajamarca region, Peru. Water International, 41(3), 426-446. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1159077
2015
Scholarly publications
Vela Almeida, D., Brooks, G., & Kosoy, N. (2015). Setting the limits to extraction: a biophysical approach to mining activities. Ecological Economics, 119, 189-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.09.001