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  • Abigail Perez Aguilera

    Assistant Professor and Chair of the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Program

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    perezagd@newschool.edu

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    Abigail Perez Aguilera

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    Dr. Abigail Perez Aguilera is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at The New School. Her most recent work is titled “Affective Multi-Species Resistance as Radical Imaginations” to be published in an edited volume by Bloomsbury in 2023. As part of her research she will published the article “The End of Nature and the Human: A Global South Ecofeminist Approach to the Anthropocene” in the edited volume titled  “Critical Environmental Reflections in the Anthropocene: Making Sense of Nature” to be published in 2024 by Taylor and Francis. She has co-authored the following articles; “Decolonize, ReIndigenize: Planetary Crisis, Biocultural Diversity, Indigenous Resurgence and Land Rematriation” (2021)  in the edited volume Contesting Extinctions: Critical Relationality, regenerative futures. Recently, she co-organized a panel discussion titled “Uncommon Collaborations: Bringing Humanities and Sciences Together for Planetary Healing (II) for the Biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE). This panel was part of her work for the Humanities for the Environment Latin American Observatory Panel. As part of the panel, she presented a paper titled “Mapping the Body-Territory to Restore the Commons: A Multidisciplinary Approach from Latin America” in August of 2022, she presented a paper titled “Cuerpo-Territorio and Multispecies Cosmopolitics" at the Earth Crisis and the Global Environmental Movement conference hosted by the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at The New School, based on her current research on land-body entanglements and decolonial approaches to critical geographies. She has spoken on panels about decolonial feminisms, radical imaginations and environmental justice. In 2022, she spoke in a panel titled Indigenous Futures organized by Columbia Climate School, and in November of 2022, she spoke at the Jahadee Sisters Summit Love We More where she spoke about decolonization, radical imaginations and Global South feminisms. She has been invited as a lecturer at Humboldt State University, and Northern Arizona University. 


    Current Courses

    Gendered Ecologies
    NEPS 6003, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Ecofeminism and Global Justice
    UGLB 3601, Spring 2025

    Toxicity, Ecology & Health
    NEPS 5029, Spring 2025

    Water Ecologies & Justice
    NEPS 5030, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Ecofeminism and Global Justice
    UENV 3601, Spring 2024

    Ecofeminism and Global Justice
    UGLB 3601, Spring 2024

    Toxicity, Ecology & Health
    NEPS 5029, Spring 2024

    Water Ecologies & Justice
    NEPS 5030, Spring 2024

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