Leadership for the
ECOZOIC
Ivan D. Vargas Roncancio
Ivan has a PhD from the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University, a B.Laws, and an LL.M. (Law and Bioscience) from the National University of Colombia. He has been a postdoctoral fellow with the Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) program (2021-22) and is co-writing a book on Pedagogies for the Ecozoic. He is an active member of a cross-cultural team of academics and practitioners supporting the co-creation of the Indigenous Biocultural University led by the Inga people of Colombia (2019 -) and has worked with Andean-Amazonian communities since 2011. Iván has been a research fellow at the Center for Public Policy Research (University of California at Davis, 2011-2013), an institutional ethnographer for the Everyday Peace Indicators Project (George Mason University, 2017-18) and a Caldas scholar (COLCIENCIAS-Colombia, 2013-2016). He has published on Earth Law and the rights of nature, Indigenous legal traditions and cosmologies in the Amazon, anthropology of plant-human relations, and critical pedagogies. Iván is currently the Associate Director of Cicada
PUBLICATIONS & OTHER WORKS
Vargas Roncancio, I.D and Mutumbajoy Sonia (2023). “Indigenous Community” in Haddad B. and Solomon B (Eds), Dictionary of Ecological Economics, Cheltenham UK/ Northampton-USA: Edward Elgar Press. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/dictionary-of-ecological-economics-9781788974905.html
Vargas Roncancio, I.D and Mutumbajoy Sonia (2023). “Indigenous Rights” in Haddad B. and Solomon B (Eds), Dictionary of Ecological Economics, Cheltenham UK/ Northampton-USA: Edward Elgar Press. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/dictionary-of-ecological-economics-9781788974905.html
Vargas Roncancio, I.D. (2023). “Law as Relation and the Co-emergence of Beings: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Legal Education for Socioecological Transitions.” In Thomas Giddens and Dundee Luca Siliquini-Cinelli (Eds). Life and the Structures of the Law School: The Biopolitics of Legal Education. Vol. 2 (Resisting the Law School). London – NY: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Biopolitics-and-Structure-in-Legal-Education/Siliquini-Cinelli-Giddens/p/book/9781032006925
Vargas Roncancio, I.D. „Eine Welt, in die viele Welten passen“, in: ARCH+ 250 The Great Repair – Politiken der Reparaturgesellschaft (Dezember 2022), Page 154–159, hier S. 154. Link: https://archplus.net/en/current-issue /
Vargas Roncancio, I.D. et al. “An Indigenous University.” In The Architectural Review, Fall 2022. https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/an-indigenous-university
Vargas Roncancio, I.D., (2022) “Unas palabritas de ayer. Despertando a la Conversa. On Connections, Free Associations and Political Possibilities in Latin America.” In Molano P., Rocha-Vivas, M., & Rojas-Sotelo, M., (eds). Mingas de la Imagen. Estudios Ecocríticos, Indígenas e Interculturales, Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. https://repository.javeriana.edu.co/handle/10554/60234
“Why would the fish pain debate be so contentious?” Forum Letter in response to Vettese T. et al (2020) “The Great Fish Pain Debate: What happens when scientists get hooked on a question that could be argued forever?”
Gagliano, Monica & Vargas Roncancio, Ivan Darío, (2020). In Issues in Science and Technology, Summer, 49-53.
From the Anthropocene to Mutual Thriving: An Agenda for Higher Education in the Ecozoic
L4E Contributors: Ivan Vargas Roncancio, Leah Temper, Joshua Sterlin, Nina L. Smolyar, Shaun Sellers, Maya Moore, Rigo Melgar-Melgar, Jolyon Larson, Catherine Horner, Jon D. Erickson, Megan Egler, Peter G. Brown, Emille Boulot, Tina Beigi and Michael Babcock
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