I’m an anthropologist and political ecologist currently working as a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am originally from El Salvador. My work explores the relationships between urbanization and environmental change. Specifically, I focus on the dynamics of land use change and water politics emerging under the expansion of global real estate markets in Central America.
I have written on topics related to land and water grabbing, urbanization, elites, financialization, agrarian change and authoritarian populism. My work has been published in academic journals such as Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, City & Society, and The Journal of Peasant Studies. I have also written for Central American newspapers such as El Faro, MalaYerba and Focos.
