Professor Facundo Martín
Education
2008-2011 Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Thesis title: The Nature of Power. The Political Ecology of Regional Development in Mendoza, Argentina (1879-2000). Grade: Outstanding/Summa cum laude.
2006-2009 Ms.Sc. in Social Agrarian Studies, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Thesis title: Recent Transformations in Oasis Agriculture in Mendoza, Argentina. An Approach to the Wine Industry Restructuring from the Political Economy of Agriculture. Grade: Outstanding
1999-2004 Dipl.-Ing. Agronomical Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
Academic Positions
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2024-2025 |
Georg Forster Fellow for Experienced Researchers (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation). 15 months. Universität Kassel and Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. |
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2022-present |
Associate Professor of Rural Geography, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (On Sabbatical leave) |
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2019-present |
Adjunct Researcher, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) |
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2022 |
Visiting Scholar, 1 month. Institute for International Development, University of Vienna, Austria |
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2015-2019 |
Assistant Researcher, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) |
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2012-2021 |
Adjunct Professor of Rural Geography, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo |
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2017 |
Fulbright Visiting Fellow, 4 months. University of Connecticut, USA |
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2017 |
Research Fellow, 2 months. Project “Global change – local conflicts? Land conflicts in Latin America and Africa in the context of interdependent transformation processes” (GLOCON), BMBF funded. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
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2012 |
CONICET Abroad Fellow, 2 months. Universidade Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Third-Party Grants
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2012-2018 |
Co-Principal Investigator “Influential Science-Policy Dialogues for Water Security in the Arid Americas”, University of Arizona - National Science Foundation, United States of America. |
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2020-2022 |
Co-Principal Investigator “Bibliohack Plus: an integrated, low cost, open source digitization tool kit and workflow for the global south and underserved areas”, University of Connecticut - SCHARP, United States of America. |
Academic Teaching
Graduate Courses
Latin American Geography (University of Vienna); Environmental Sociology (Universidad de Buenos Aires); Policial Ecology and Geography (Universidad de Buenos Aires); Latin American Agrarian History (Universidade Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro); Latin American Political Ecology (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales); Environmental History (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo)
Undergraduate Courses
Rural Geography; Political Ecology; Urban & Rural Sociology; Social and Political Geography; Territory and Extension (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo)
Editorial Boards
Member of the Editorial Board, Journal “Boletín de Estudios Geográficos”, Argentina
Member of the Editorial Council, Journal “Debates en Sociología”, Perú
Member of the International Advisory Board, Journal “Revista NERA”, Brazil
Evaluation of Scientific Articles for Publication
Journal of Agrarian Change; Bulletin of Latin American Research; Ambiente & Sociedade; Theory and Society; Estudios Atacameños; Área 26; Economía, Sociedad y Territorio; Proyección; Estudios Rurales; Revista Latinoamericana de Metodología de las Ciencias Sociales; Revista de Ciencias Políticas; Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; IDEAS; Medios y Comunicación; Alternativas; Corpoica; CLACSO; Revista NERA; RIVAR; Población y Sociedad; Alternautas; Colombia Internacional; REVIISE; Mundo Agrario.
Memberships In Professional Associations
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
International Geographical Union (IGU)
Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
Argentinean Association of Rural Sociology (AASRu)
Language skills
Spanish (first language)
English (fluent)
Portuguese (fluent)
German (basic knowledge)
French (basic knowledge)
Fields of Study: Socio-Ecological Transformation, Critical Agrarian Studies, Environmental Conflicts, Political Ecology
Regional Focus: Argentina, Latin America, Transregional Studies
Articles
Larsimont, R.* & Martín, F. (2024) Disputas corporativas en torno a la creación de indicaciones geográficas vitivinícolas en Mendoza, Argentina [Corporate disputes around the creation of wine geographical indications in Mendoza, Argentina]. Perspectiva Geográfica 23 (3): 1-20.
Martín, F. (2023): Die Politische Ökologie Lateinamerikas im Dialog mit der Geographie. Geographische Zeitschrift. 111 (2-3): 137-159.
Rojas, F.*, Sironi, O., Martín, F. (2023): Sequías en Mendoza (Argentina): una mirada sociohistórica desde la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. [Water Scarcity in Mendoza (Argentina): a Socio–historical Insight from the Second Half of 19th century]. Agua y Territorio/Water and Landscape. 22: 147-166.
Soto, O.* & Martín, F. (2022) Neoliberalism in rural South America: political trends in peasant-led unionization (2000-2020). Canadian Journal of Development Studies. 44: 77-96.
Lutz-Ley, A. N., Scott, C. A., Wilder, M., Varady, R. G., Ocampo-Melgar, A., Lara-Valencia, F., Zuniga-Teran, A. A., Buechler, S., Díaz-Caravantes, R., Ribeiro Neto, A., Pineda-Pablos, N., Martín, F. (2021): Dialogic science-policy networks for water security governance in the arid Americas. Environmental Development. 38:1-14.
Díaz-Caravantes, R. E., Zuniga-Teran, A., Martín, F., Bernabeu, M., Stoker, P., Scott, C. (2020): Urban water security: A comparative study of cities in the arid Americas. Environment and Urbanization. 32 (1): 1-20.
Rojas, F., Rubio, C., Rizzo, M., Bernabeu, M., Akil, N., Martín, F. (2020): Land Use and Land Cover in Irrigated Drylands: A Long-Term Analysis of Changes in the Mendoza and Tunuyán River Basins, Argentina (1986–2018). Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. 13(4): 875-899.
Martín, F.*, Larsimont, R. (2016): ¿Es posible una ecología cosmo-política? Notas hacia la desregionalización de las ecologías políticas. [Is a cosmo-political ecology possible? Notes towards the Deregionalization of Political Ecologies]. POLIS Revista Latinoamericana. 10: 1-16.
Gómez, A.*, Wagner, L., Torres, B., Martín, F., Rojas, F. (2014). Resistencias sociales en contra de los megaproyectos hídricos en América Latina. [Social Resistance against Water Megaprojects in Latin America]. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 97: 75-96.
Book chapters
Larsimont, R. Martín, F., (2022): Reflections from Latin America on the hydrosocial approach: its use, abuse, and a possible way through the maze. In: Luttes pour l´eau dans les Amériques, Eds. Nicolas-Artero, C., Velut, S., Schneier-Madanes, G., Poupeau, F., Chavarochette, C. (Éditions de l´IHEAL). 102-121.
Rubio, C.*, Rojas, F., Rubio, M. C., Sales, R., Rubio, F., Verdugo, L., Greco, G., Martín, F. (2022): Chapter 7—Drivers of land use and land cover changes in South America. A Review Focused on Drylands. In: Mapping and Forecasting Land Use. Eds. Pereira, P., Gomes, E., Rocha, J. (Amsterdam, Oxford, Cambridge: Elsevier). 143-171.
Martín, F. (2021): Experts, land regimes and the politics of mapping. In: Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies, Eds. Hakram-Lodi, A., Engels, B., Dietz, K., McKay, B. (Edward Elgar Publishing). 480-490.
Martín, F.*, Healey, M. (2020): La Ley de Glaciares en la encrucijada. Cuestión minera y juridificación del conflicto ambiental en Argentina [The Glacier´s Law at a Crossroads. Mining Issues and juridification of environmental conflict in Argentina]. In: Cartografías del conflicto ambiental en Argentina III. Comp. Merlinsky, G. (Buenos Aires: CLACSO-CICCUS). 157-185.
Martín, F. (2016): Reimagining Extractivism. Reflections from Space Theory. In: Contested Extractivism, Society and the State: Struggles over Mining and Land. Eds. Dietz, K., Engels, B. (London, United Kingdom: Palgrave-Mcmillan). 27-51.
Martín, F., Larsimont, R. (2016): Agua, poder y desigualdad socio-espacial. Un nuevo ciclo hidrosocial en Mendoza, Argentina (1990-2015).[Water, power and socio-spatial inequality. A new hydro-social in Mendoza, Argentina (1990-2015). En: Cartografías del conflicto ambiental en Argentina. Vol II. Ed. Merlinsky, G. (Buenos Aires: CLACSO-CICCUS).
Edited volumes
Martín, F.*, Merlinsky, G. & Milanez, F. (Eds.) (2025) Descolonizar la naturaleza. Por una ecología política latinoamericana. Textos reunidos de Héctor Alimonda (1982-2017) [Decolonising nature. Towards a Latin American political ecology. Collected Texts by Héctor Alimonda (1982-2017)]. Buenos Aires. CLACSO.
Alimonda, H., Toro Pérez, C, Martín, F.* Eds. (2017): Ecología Política Latinoamericana. Pensamiento crítico, diferencia latinoamericana y rearticulación epistémica. [Latin American Political Ecology. Critical Thinking, Latin American Difference and Epistemic Rearticulation]. Volumen 1 y 2. Buenos Aires. CLACSO.
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