Omar Felipe Giraldo

Omar Felipe Giraldo

Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Rural Sociology at the Autonomous University of Chapingo, Master of Rural Development of the National University of Costa Rica, and graduated veterinarian at the National University of Colombia. His research interests focus on the areas of environmental thinking, political ecology, the post-development, and theory and epistemology of rural studies. He has authored eight journal articles, book chapters, and his doctoral thesis, "Utopias in the era of survival. An interpretation of Good Living "is being published.At the Institute for Social Research developed the project "Crisis and capitalist accumulation through dissociation territory / culture: A reading of dispossession of land for industrial agriculture from the perspective of political ecology". This research seeks to track the specific devices and discursive practices associated with the ontological and epistemic deterritorialization of peasant communities, as well as conflicts and disputes reterritorialization and reappropriation of nature and culture, in the context of grabbing land for planting of monocultures