Field Trips

Yucatán Mexico
Field trip to Quintana Roo and the vicinity of Mérida, Mexico, in November 2025

The second field trip took PhD researchers, postdoctoral scholars, and principal investigators through Quintana Roo and the Mérida region. Participants explored territorial conflicts, extractive development, and local resistance movements, including visits to Hunucmá and Sisal. The trip highlighted the impacts of industrial production, tourism-driven real estate expansion, and water privatization, as well as ongoing community efforts to defend territory, water, and alternative models of Buen Vivir.

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Field Trip Brazil
Field Trip to the Cerrado do Distrito Federal and Matopiba in Brazil, October 2024

In Brazil, two field trips were conducted: on 6 October to the Cerrado do Distrito Federal, including a camp of the MST, and from 12–15 October to the MATOPIBA territory.

Field Trip Chile
Extractive urbanization and green transition in the region of Antofagasta, Chile - Fieldtrip in July-August 2024

Academic field excursion conducted in Antofagasta and its extractive hinterland between July 29 and August 2, 2024, combining an international seminar with field visits to mining territories.

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