Nicholas L. Padilla

Dr. Padilla is a broadly-trained critical human geographer who researches at the intersections of political ecology, political economy, and indigenous peoples in Latin America. In Colombia, his research explores the politics and spatialities of indigenous and peasant social movements, education, and economic activism through ethnographic fieldwork. His previous research examined the spaces of decolonial thinking and praxis among indigenous and rural actors in Cauca, Colombia, who have coalesced in order to further their ‘own’ educational model, re-introduce social relations in rural economies, and account for and incorporate nature in economic practices.