Pabel C. López Flores
Visiting researcher at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), with funding from FAPESP. He is an associate researcher in the Graduate Program in Development Sciences at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (CIDES-UMSA) in Bolivia. He was a distinguished researcher at the University Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Seville. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Milan “Bicocca” and the Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy). He served as coordinator of the “Territorialities in Dispute” and “Indigenous Peoples and Processes of Autonomy” Working Groups at CLACSO (Latin American Council of Social Sciences). His main areas of research are socioterritorial movements and processes of indigenous autonomy in Latin America. In recent years, his academic work has focused on the areas of political sociology, the sociology of social movements, environmental sociology, and the sociology of territory, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Territories of Sacrifice and Socio-Community Re-existences. CONTIOCAP and the Current Indigenous-Peasant Socio-Territorial Rearticulation in Bolivia
The term “sacrifice territories,” as well as the notion of re-existence, has emerged as a recent and more or less widespread expression associated with territorial actors involved in socio-ecological conflicts and community and environmental justice movements in South America, as well as to designate territories and geographies where extractive projects and multiple dispossessions are taking place, with impacts resulting from environmental damage and risks. To a certain extent, these terms synthesize and express a way of naming and problematizing the situation faced by various territories in the region, where socio-environmental conflicts, deterritorialization, and socio-ecological, sociopolitical, and identity-related transformations are manifest. This study proposes to address some of the socio-environmental conflicts and socio-territorial movements in the Andean-Amazonian region, based on an analysis of the tensions and disputes over territoriality in certain “sacrificial territories” in Bolivia, while also taking into account the leadership role of women in socio-territorial struggles and resistance, that is, processes that could (or could not) be identified as territorial ecofeminization and depatriarchalization, specifically in the Bolivian lowlands, as exemplified by the experience of the Coordinating Committee for the Defense of Indigenous, Native, and Peasant Territories and Protected Areas (CONTIOCAP).
Salvador Schavelzon (mediação e debate)
Antropólogo pelo Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, onde fez doutorado sobre o processo constituinte boliviano, as autonomias indígenas e a plurinacionalidade. Hoje é professor da Unifesp (Osasco) e do Programa de Integração Latinoamericana (PROLAM-USP), além de pesquisador associado ao CEMAA/USP e aos grupos de trabalho Pueblos indígenas y ecología política da CLACSO. Atualmente, estuda mobilização e rebelião indígena nos Andes, processos constituintes latinoamericanos e cosmopolítica ameríndia contra o desenvolvimento.
Salvador Schavelzon (moderator and panelist)
An anthropologist at the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, where he earned his Ph.D. on the Bolivian constitutional process, indigenous autonomies, and plurinationality. He is currently a professor at Unifesp (Osasco) and the Latin American Integration Program (PROLAM-USP), as well as a research associate at CEMAA/USP and the CLACSO working groups on Indigenous Peoples and Political Ecology. He is currently studying indigenous mobilization and rebellion in the Andes, Latin American constitutional processes, and Amerindian cosmopolitics against development.
Poster image credit: CONTIOCAP mobilization. Source: ANA (Environmental News Agency). Bolivia, November 13, 2025
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