Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Joyce Matos

Modern Culture and Media
Research Interests political ecology/geography, mapping as media, indigenous resistances to extractive economies
Pronouns She/her/hers

Biography

My interests are in asking how nature act simultaneously as an individual and collective entity with political desires and effects. I'm focused on the Andean regions of Peru and Bolivia and how native communities react and response to such desires. Regions like the Altiplano have shaped the material politics of movements and resistance (e.g. rondas campesinas, bolivian water war, the dina boluarte dictorship) and I'm interested in exploring this relationship further in my graduate studies.