Tom Perreault

• 2025 Spring
  • GEO 103 Environment and Society
  • ESP 499 Honors Thesis
  • GEO 321 Latin American Development: Spatial Aspects
• 2024 Fall
  • GEO 353 Geographies of Environmental Justice
  • GEO 317 Geography of Mountain Environments

"Beyond the oil pipeline: environmental injustices and indigenous women's struggles in the northern peruvian amazon", Sponsored by Society of Woman Geographers.

"Governing the Paddies: Gender, Race, and Environmental Governance in Rice Farming in Colombia:_Doctoral Dissertation", Sponsored by Society of Woman Geographers.

"Unmasking the Uneven Geographies along the HaitianDominican Transboundary Massacre River:_ Doctoral Dissertation Research", Sponsored by Society of Woman Geographers.

"US Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program 2010 - 2011", Sponsored by Department of Education.

"Returning the Commons: Resource Access and Environmental Governance in Southern Colorado: Doctoral Dissertation Research", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

• Books
  • Justicia Hídrica, Poder y Solidaridad. Perreault, T. A., Boelens and Vos (eds.) Editorial Abya Yala, 2023.
  • Water Justice. Boelens, R., Perreault, T. A. and Vos, J. (eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  • The Handbook of Political Ecology. Perreault, T. A., Bridge, G. and McCarthy, J. (eds.) Routledge, 2015.
  • Minería, Agua y Justicia Social en los Andes: Experiencias Comparativas de Perú y Bolivia. Perreault, T. A. (ed.) PIEB/Plural, 2014.
  • Perreault, T. A., In Movilización política e identidad indígena en el Alto Napo. Ediciones Abya Yala, 2002.
• Journal Articles
  • Kooy, M., Harris, L., Boelens, R., Perreault, T. A. and Swyngedouw, E., "Karen Bakker: Honouring a sharp mind, fierce intellect, thought pioneer heart-led scientist, and friend." Water Alternatives, 2025.
  • Perreault, T., "Adaptive Livelihoods in Andean Pastoralism: Community-Based Institutions, Peatland Management, and Migration in Sajama National Park, Bolivia." Mountain Research and Development, 2025.
  • Prieto, M., Valdivia, G. and Perreault, T., "Aporias de las ecologías políticas norte/sur." Revista Geográfica de Valparaíso, 2024.
  • Perreault, T. A., Prieto and Valdivia, "Aporias of North/South political ecology." Progress in Environmental Geography, 2023.
  • Mulhern, R., Mulhern, M. and Perreault, T. A., "Contesting the social license to operate: Competing visions and community exclusion on the Bolivian Altiplano." The Extractive Industries and Society, 2022.
  • Boelens, R., Escobar, A., Bakker, K., Hommes, L., Swyngedouw, E., Hogenboom, B., Huijbens, E. H., Jackson, S., Vos, J., Harris, L. M., Joy, K. J., Castro, F. d., Duarte-Abadia, B., de Souza, D. T., Sisitka, H. L., Mora, N. H., Alier, J. M., Servat, D. R., Perreault, T. A., Ibor, C. S., Suhardiman, D., Ulloa, A., Wals, A., Hoogesteger, J., Hidalgo Bastidas, J. P., Avendaño, T. R., Veldwisch, G. J., Woodhouse , P. and Wantzen, K. M., "Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice." The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2022.
  • Perreault, T. A., "Extraction and its others." Latin American Research Review, 2022.
  • Perreault, T. A., "Bolivia’s high stakes lithium gamble." NACLA Report on the Americas, 2020.
  • Perreault, T. A., "Climate change and climate politics: Parsing the causes and effects of the drying of Lake Poopó, Bolivia." Journal of Latin American Geography, 2020.
  • Perreault, T. A., Astudillo Pizarro, F., "Medioambiente, agua y conocimiento en la coyuntura latinoamericana: La justicia social como matriz de los estudios socioambientales críticos." A&P Continuidad, 2020.
• Book Chapters
  • Díaz-Combs, C., Garaizar , A. M. and Perreault, T. A., "Water governance in Latin America." In Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Water Resources. Fritsch , O., Benson , D. (eds.) Edward Elgar, 2024.
  • Perreault, T. A., "Toward a critical-geographic understanding of resource nationalism." In The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography. Himley, M., Valdivia , G. and Havice , E. (eds.) Routledge, 2021.
  • Perreault, T. A., "State of nature: On the co-constitution of resources, state and nation." In Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics. Moisio, S., Koch, N., Jones, A. E., Lizotte, C. and Juukkonen , J. (eds.) Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020.
  • Perreault, T. A., Vos , J. and Boelens, R., "Conclusion." In Water Justice. Boelens, R., Perreault, T. A. and Vos , J. (eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  • Boelens, R., Vos, J. and Perreault, T. A., "Introduction." In Water Justice. Boelens, R., Perreault, T. A. and Vos, J. (eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  • Perreault, T. A., La memoria del agua: Contaminación minera, memoria colectiva y justicia hídrica. Benites , G. V., Bonelli, C. (eds.) Abya Yala, 2018.
  • Perreault, T. A., "Mining and development in Latin America." In The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development. Cupples, J., Palomino-Schalscha , M. and Prieto, M. (eds.) Routledge, 2018.
• Blog Posts
  • Perreault, T. A., "Mining, power and the limits of public consultations in Bolivia’s mining sector." Public Political Ecology Lab (http://ppel.arizona.edu/?p=847), 2014.
  • Perreault, T. A., "Repensando las raíces y trayectorias de la ecología política." ENTITLE network blog (http://entitleblog.org/2014/11/04/repensando-las-raices-y-trayectorias-de-la- ecologia-politica/), 2014.
• Book Reviews
  • Perreault, T. A., "Review of Andrea Marston, 2024 “Subterranean matters: Cooperative mining and resource nationalism in plurinational Bolivia,”." Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2024.
  • Perreault, T. A., "Review of Japhy Wilson, 2022 “Reality of dreams: Post-neoliberal utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon,”." Journal of Latin American Studies, 2023.
  • Perreault, T. A., Anthias , P., "Review of: Penelope Anthias, "Limits to decolonization: Indigeneity, territory, and hydrocarbon politics in the Bolivian Chaco" (2018)." AAG Review of Books, 2019.
  • Perreault, T. A., Gómez-Barris, M., In The extractive zone: Social ecologies and decolonial perspectives (2017). Journal of Latin American Geography, 2018.
  • Perreault, T. A., In Social Conflict, Economic Development and Extractive Industry: Evidence from South America (2012). Bebbington, A. (ed.) International Development Planning Review, 2016.
  • Perreault, T. A., Farthing, L. C. and Kohl, B. H., In Evo's Bolivia: Continuity and Change (2014). Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2015.
  • Perreault, T. A., Auyero , J. and Swistun, D. A., In Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown (2009). Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2012.
• Guest Editors
  • "Geographies of neoliberalism in Latin America,." Perreault, T. A., Martin, P. (eds.) Environment and Planning A, 2005.
  • "Indigenous transformational movements in contemporary Latin America." Perreault, T. A., Wilson, P. and Roper, J. M. (eds.) Latin American Perspectives, 2003.

Department of Environment and Natural Resources speaker series, Cornell University, "Highlands and drylands: Socio-ecological transformations of high altitude peatlands (bofedales) in the Bolivian Altiplano" (November 28, 2023 - November 28, 2023)

speaker series on "Agua, Territorio y Soberanía Alimentaria", Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, "Buscando estabilidad en un paisaje móvil: Vidas rurales, turberas altoandinos (bofedales) y cambio socioambiental en la zona transfronteriza boliviana- chilena" (November 13, 2023 - November 13, 2023)

Agua, Territorio y Soberanía Alimentaria seminar series, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia , "Colonialismos, colaboraciones, y contradicciones: Aporías de la ecología política del norte y del sur" (November 8, 2023 - November 8, 2023)

social science doctoral program speaker series, Universidad de Tarapacá, "Entre la minería y la memoria: imaginarios de extracción, naturaleza y nación en Bolivia y más allá" (September 7, 2023 - September 7, 2023)

Universidad de Tarapacá doctoral program in social sciences, "Review and critique of doctoral research " (September 6, 2023 - September 6, 2023)

Universidad de Tarapacá, "Justicia hídrica y las luchas socio-ambientales en Bolivia" (August 16, 2023 - August 16, 2023)

Graduate Program in Development Studies (CIDES), Universidad de San Andres (UMSA), "El concepto de justicia hídrica y las luchas socio-ambientales en Bolivia" (August 8, 2023 - August 8, 2023)

Tulane University Latin American Studies Program (virtual), "Subnational environmental governance institutions in Latin America" (May 16, 2022)

Latin American Studies Association International Congress (virtual), "Present and future of neo-extractivism: the political economy of resource extraction in Latin America" (May 6, 2022)

Climate Justice and Sustainability in Latin America and the Caribbean, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) Student Caucus, "On the ragged edge of empire: Climate change, water security, and cultural survival at Lake Poopó, Bolivia" (March 28, 2022)

University of California, Santa Cruz Research Group on Extractivism and Society, "Emerging perspectives: Theorizing extractivism and socio-territorial conflicts in post-pandemic Americas" (October 28, 2021)

Riverhood/River Commons international meeting (based in Wageningen University, The Netherlands, "River-as-Territory" (September 23, 2021)

Earth Day Webinar, Oxfam at Syracuse University, "Restore Our Earth" (April 22, 2021)

Bill Anderson Fund Spring Webinar, "Graduate students, mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic" (April 9, 2021)

Environmental Justice in Syracuse, Syracuse University Student Association, "Race, space and place: Geographies of Environmental justice in Syracuse" (April 6, 2021)

American Association of Geographers, "The impact of COVID-19 on graduate students and graduate programs" (February 24, 2021)

FLACSO Ecuador (virtual), "Estrategias comunitarias frente a conflictos socioambientales: Más allá de la resistencia" (February 18, 2021)

CNY Youth Summit, "Environmental justice in Syracuse, CNY and beyond" (October 31, 2020)

Agua y Medio Ambiente 2020, Centro de Ecología y Pueblos Andinos, "El concepto de justicia hídrica y las luchas socio-ambientales en Bolivia" (October 24, 2020)

Department of Geography, University of Florida (presented virtually), "Resource Nationalism" (October 8, 2020)

Latin America’s Green New Deal, University of Pennsylvania Latin American and Latinx Studies Program (presented virtually), "The politics of lithium in Bolivia" (October 8, 2020)

Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award, Conference of Latin American Geography (2022)

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence, Syracuse University (2018 - 2021)

United Methodist Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award, Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church (2017)

2004-2005 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award, Syracuse University (2005)