Course WS 2025

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Grettel Navas is a political ecologist specializing in toxic pollution, public policy, and environmental justice. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the School of Government, University of Chile (Santiago, Chile), and an Associate Lecturer in the interdisciplinary Master’s program in Planetary Health at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) (Spain). In November 2025 she holds a Paul Lazarsfeld Visiting Professorship at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Social Sciences in the area of International Politics / Research Group Latin America.
Grettel Navas earned her PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she was part of the ENVJustice project (ERC-GA 69544). She also holds a Master’s degree in Socio-Environmental Studies from FLACSO-Ecuador and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the National University of Costa Rica. Grettel is an active member of the Latin American Political Ecology Group (CLACSO–Abya Yala) and serves on the leadership and coordination team of the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas), a global initiative documenting environmental conflicts and resistance movements. In her talk “Landscapes of Extractivism and Resistance,” she will reflect on her long-standing fieldwork in Central America and her more recent research in Chile.