diego andreucci  

PhD Candidate MA in Environment, Society and Development (2010) BA, La Sapienza, University of Rome, Philosophy (2007)
Room:	114, Geography
Email:	d.andreucci1nuigalway.ie

Working Title:

Green Neoliberalism and its Discontents: Development, Free-market Environmentalism and Indigenous Peoples in Peru

Research Description:

The mainstreaming of environmental sustainability in the agenda of development institutions – most notably the World Bank – is one of the most important advancements in international development in the last two decades. Yet, throughout the developing world, concerns about the implications of the Bank’s neoliberal environmental agenda are widespread. The extraction of natural resources and the privatisation of their management are among the key tenets of this agenda; they are also, however, some of the most widely contested policy principles, particularly for their allegedly disruptive impacts on local ecologies and resource-based communities. Through an in-depth exploration of the recent wave of indigenous protests against ’green’ neoliberalism in Peru, this research aims to provide an empirically-grounded appraisal of the environmental sustainability paradigm currently adopted in international development.

Supervisors:

Dr Anna Stanley, Prof. Ulf Strohmayer

Research Cluster:

Research Interests:

• Neoliberalism and Nature 
• Political Ecology
• Critical Development Studies
• Global, Social and Environmental Justice
• Critical and Radical Social Theory
• Contemporary Latin America
• Social and Indigenous Movements

Teaching Involvement:

Tutor/teaching assistant for:

• TI344 - Environmental Justice
• TI252 - Theory and Practice 2
• TI251 - Theory and Practice 1
• TI250 - Critical Introduction to Nature Power and Society

Presentations:

• (Forthcoming) Free-Market Environmentalism and Indigenous Resistance in Peru. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) conference, Sacramento, CA
• (2010) Nature, Development and ’Deep’ Neoliberalism: The World Bank and the Remaking of Environment-Society Relations in Bosnia. Symposium on Environment, Society and Development, NUI Galway