Pedro Alarcón
University of Giessen
Universität Kassel | Nora-Platiel-Straße 1 | 34127 Kassel
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biography
Dr. Pedro Alarcón studied energy and environmental sciences at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences and the University of Oslo. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Socio-environmental Studies and a Ph.D. in Development Economics from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Ecuador. His research interests include development theories and alternatives, natural resource extractivism and rentier states, and the relationship between energy, climate change and society.
Short
biography
Dr. Pedro Alarcón studied energy and environmental sciences at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences and the University of Oslo. He also holds a Master’s degree in Socio-environmental Studies and a Ph.D. in Development Economics from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Ecuador. His research interests include development theories and alternatives, natural resource extractivism and rentier states, and the relationship between energy, climate change and society.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT
Pedro Alarcón is an expert on oil-driven development with an empirical focus on Ecuador. He has analyzed this case in a longer historical period from the 1970s up to date, stressing the historical impact of extractivism on contemporary Ecuador. Within the context of Extractivism.de, he focuses on the impact of global sustainability on the drivers of change as well as the persistence of extractivism in Ecuador.
Recent Publications (Selection)
Alarcón, Pedro. (2022). “Dependency Revisited: Ecuador’s (Re)Insertions into the International Division of Nature.” Latin American Perspectives, 49 (243): 207–226. VIEW PUBLICATION
Alarcón, Pedro. (2021). “The Ecuadorian Oil Era: Nature, Rent, and the State.” Nomos. VIEW PUBLICATION
Alarcón, P., Peters, S. (2020). “Ecuador After the Commodities Boom: A Rentier Society’s Labyrinth.” Cadernos do CEAS: Revista crítica de humanidades, 45 (250): 251–278. VIEW PUBLICATION
Alarcón, Pedro. (2020). “Latin American Environmental Thinking Revisited: The Polyphony of Buen Vivir.” Diálogos: Revista Electrónica de Historia, 21 (2): 215–236. VIEW PUBLICATION
Alarcón, P., Rocha, K., Di Pietro, S. (2018). “Die Yasuní Initiative zehn Jahre später: Entwicklung und Natur in Ecuador heute.” Peripherie: Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, 149 (38): 55–73. VIEW PUBLICATION