RESEARCH · MARIÉN GONZÁLEZ-HIDALGO
emotional
political
ecologies
Research on the role of emotions
in environmental change,
conflict, and disasters.
RESEARCH TOPICS
My research explores how emotions are present in environmental disasters and conflicts, in environmental and climate change processes, and in environmental movements and discourses.
I analyze how these emotions influence decision-making, social participation, and relationships with territories and nature.
Extractivism, environmental justice, and socio-ecological inequalities
Collective action, resistance, and processes of social transformation
Affective care practices during conflicts, disasters, and mobilizations
Socio-environmental conflicts and disasters
Emotional well-being and collective healing in response to environmental damage
Strategic use of emotions in green capitalism
“The affective is political. Territory is lived and felt.
Emotions are inseparable from how territories are experienced and contested”
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Research, outreach
and thought
Emotions, power, and environmental conflict: Expanding the ‘emotional turn’ in political ecology
We examine the role of emotions in environmental conflicts and propose an expanded approach to emotional political ecology. Drawing on feminist studies, human geography, social psychology, social movement theory, and anthropology, we develop a conceptual framework…
How sovereignty claims and “negative” emotions influence the process of subject-making: Evidence from a case of conflict over tree plantations from Southern Chile
We examine the conflict generated by industrial tree plantations in Mapuche territories in southern Chile to understand how emotions, power, and claims to sovereignty shape socio-environmental conflicts. We show how the state and private companies seek to consolidate…
The ambivalent political work of emotions in the defence of territory, life and the commons
We explore the role of emotions in the defence of the commons and in mobilization against socio-environmental conflicts through experiences of grassroots movements and communities in Chile and Mexico. We show how emotional expression can strengthen resistance and…