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Tom Perreault

Tom Perreault

Contact Information:

taperrea@syr.edu

315.443.2607

144F Eggers Hall

Tom Perreault

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department


DellPlain Professor of Latin American Geography

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Courses

  • 2022 Fall
    • GEO 353 Geographies of Environmental Justice
    • GEO 215 Global Environmental Change
    • GEO 700 Selected Topics - Agrarian Political Ecology
  • 2022 Spring
    • GEO 215 Global Environmental Change

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2000

Areas of Expertise

Political ecology, environmental justice, water governance, critical resource geography, mining and extractivism, rural livelihoods, agrarian political economy, indigeneity and indigenous politics, Latin America

Research Grant Awards and Projects

"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.

"Mine-Related Water Contamination and Rural Livelihoods in the Bolivian Andes", Sponsored by Department of Education.

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

Selected Publications

  • Books
    • Justicia Hídrica, Poder y Solidaridad. Perreault, T. A., Boelens and Vos (eds.) Editorial Abya Yala, 2023.
    • In Water Justice. Boelens, R., Perreault, T. A. and Vos, J. (eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2018.
    • In The Handbook of Political Ecology. Perreault, T. A., Bridge, G. and McCarthy, J. (eds.) Routledge, 2015.
    • In Minería, Agua y Justicia Social en los Andes: Experiencias Comparativas de Perú y Bolivia. Perreault, T. A. (ed.) PIEB/Plural, 2014.
    • "Minería, Agua y Justicia Social en los Andes: Experiencias Comparativas de Perú y Bolivia." In Minería, Agua y Justicia Social en los Andes: Experiencias Comparativas de Perú y Bolivia. Perreault, T. A. (ed.) Centro Bartolomé de las Casas, 2014.
    • Perreault, T. A., In Movilización política e identidad indígena en el Alto Napo. Ediciones Abya Yala, 2002.
  • Journal Articles
    • 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., "Climate change and climate politics: Parsing the causes and effects of the drying of Lake Poopó, Bolivia." Journal of Latin American Geography, 2020.
    • Koch , N., Perreault, T. A., "Resource Nationalism." Progress in Human Geography, 2019.
    • Perreault, T. A., "Energy, extractivism, and hydrocarbon geographies in contemporary Latin America." Journal of Latin American Geography, 2018.
    • Perreault, T. A., "Mining, meaning and memory in the Andes." The Geographical Journal, 2018.
  • Book Chapters
    • 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.
    • Perreault, T. A., "Prefacio." In Equidad y Justicia Hídrica: El Agua como Reflejo de Poder en los Países Andinos. Budds , J., Cecilia Roa García , M. (eds.) Fondo Editorial, 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., Anthias , P., In 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.
    • Perreault, T. A., Andolina, R., Laurie , N. and Radcliffe, S., In Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism (2009). Geographical Review, 2011.
    • Perreault, T. A., Gow, D., In Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination (2008). American Ethnologist, 2010.
  • 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.
  • Technical Report
    • Perreault, T. A., "Bolivia’s high stakes lithium gamble." NACLA Report on the Americas, 2020.

Presentations and Events

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)

Political Economy Reading Group, Columbia University, "Meaning, mining and memory: A political ecology of extractivism in Bolivia" (November 7, 2019)

Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, "Living with a dying lake: Climate change politics and the problem of overdetermination, Lake Poopó, Bolivia" (October 23, 2019)

Legal issues related to I-81: Economic inclusion and environmental justice, Onondaga County Bar Association, "Space, place and race: Understanding the geographies of environmental (in)justice" (October 17, 2019)

Studying water as a transdisciplinary challenge: From environmental governance to knowledge and territorial politics, Unesco-Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE), "Changing waterscapes, changing livelihoods: Water governance and rural transformation in Latin America" (May 29, 2019)

Water Resources Management Chair Group, Wageningen University, "Water, power and knowledge conflicts" (May 28, 2019)

Latin American Studies Association International Congress, "Dialogues of environmental justice in South America: Global dynamics, extractivism, and local change" (May 24, 2019)

Ecología política, conflictos y territorios hidrosociales en Argentina y América Latina, CONICET/Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, "¿Cambio climático o algo más? Vivir y morir con un lago seco en el altiplano boliviano" (April 16, 2019)

American Association of Geographers conference, "Critical resource geographies I: Intersecting lineages in dialogue" (April 6, 2019)

American Association of Geographers conference, "Limits to decolonization: Indigeneity, territory, and hydrocarbon politics in the Bolivian Chaco" (April 5, 2019)

Department of Geography, University of Colorado, "Climate change or something more? Living with a dying lake on the Bolivian Altiplano" (March 1, 2019)

Honors and Accolades

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

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