Research Expertise and Interest

geospatial representation, political economy, critical environments, social mapping, political ecology, historical and political geography, environmental history, indigenous/campesino ontologies and epistemologies, Latin American geographies, videography

Research Description

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography. As a geographer, his interests are at the intersections of political and historical geographies, political ecologies, and critical cartographies. His work focuses on peoples’ relation to their land/territory/landscape while engaging wide-reaching environmental policies, colonialism, and statism. His research is grounded on collaborative methods, mainly social mapping, and videography, highlighting the multiple geographies and ways of knowing that can inform epistemic and social justice efforts. He has worked closely with communities in Oaxaca for over a decade on a range of issues, such as forest conservation, agrarian change, social mapping, and local knowledges. Currently, he is in the final stage of a feature documentary film exploring the consequences of and experiences around the international carbon offset market in Indigenous and campesino communities in Mexico.