Lorena Arias SolanoPhD student

About me

I am a historian and geographer specializing in environmental conflicts, planning and land-water use, development policies, and water justice. My research focuses on Feminist Political Ecology and environmental conflicts in diverse and vulnerable populations due to the armed conflict, women peasants, and ethnic communities in Colombia. My PhD project concerns the link between agrarian extractivism and violence in sugar production in southwest Colombia, producing sedimented landscapes. I propose using sugarcane agro-business as an example of how capitalism is inherently racial and requires control over land, water, and violence to make profits. 

I am part of the Colombian Water Observatory, Waterlat Gobacit. 

Publications:

LORENA ARIAS SOLANO. 2023. "La Violencia del Paisaje Azucarero en Colombia" Sugarlandscape's Violence in Colombia. Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña (HALAC). Revista Solcha 13 (Edición suplementaria): 208-13. ISSN 2237-2717209

 LORENA ARIAS SOLANO, "Sugarcane and water access in Candelaria, Valle del Cauca, Colombia 1945-1970." In Spain, Americanist Themes ISSN: 1988-7868 ed: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla v.N/A fasc.38 p.130 - 152, 2017.

LORENA ARIAS SOLANO, "Consolidation and territorial control" Territorial Grabbing. Sociospatial impacts. In: Colombia ISBN: 978-958-774-707-2 ed: Ediciones Uniandes, v. , p.1 - 18, 2018.

LORENA ARIAS SOLANO, "A Thirst Issue: sugarcane crops and conflicts over water in Candelaria, Valle del Cauca" Fragments of Colombian environmental history. In: Colombia ISBN: 978-958-774-928-1 ed: Ediciones Uniandes, v. , p.119 - 144, 2020.

LORENA ARIAS SOLANO, "Social and economic characterization of Craftsmanship´s Zenu Indigenous People, in Department of Antioquia, Colombia." In: Colombia. 2015. Environment and Sustainability Magazine. ISSN: 2339-3122 p.142 - 165 v.5

Working papers:

Beyond Landgrabbing: Violent Sugar-Landscapes in Southwest Colombia.

One Glyphosate: Toxic Dispossession and the Agri-Military Regime in Colombia

Awards:
Doctoral Fund Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies-CIDER- Colombia-2020-
Latin American Scholar, Conicet - Argentina, November 2016
Francisco José de Caldas Scholar, Colombia 2012. 
Graduate School Scholar of the Central-West State University in Paraná, Brazil, Central-West State University - 2015

Teaching

Undergraduate Level:

Health Anthropology (Health Department, Industrial University of Santander, Colombia)

Graduate Level:

Regional Development Policies, (Assistant professor, Universidad de Los Andes Colombia).