Leadership for the
ECOZOIC
Ivan D. Vargas Roncancio
Postdoctoral Fellow – McGill University
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
Posthuman legalities. New Materialism and Law Beyond the Human.
Anna Grear, Emille Boulot, Iván Darío Vargas-Roncancio, and Joshua Sterlin (Editors). 2021. Edward Elgar Publishing.
“Yoco (Paullinia yoco)”
Vargas Roncancio, I.D. (2021). In Ryan, J., Gagliano, M., and Vieira, P., (eds.) The Mind of Plants. Synergetic Press: Santa Fe.
Conjuring Sentient Beings and Relations in the Law: A Comparative Praxis of Legal Cosmologies.
Vargas, I. D. (2021). In Anker, K., Burdon, P., Garver, G., Maloney, Carla S., (Eds). From Environmental to Ecological Law. Routledge - Taylor & Francis.
“Indigenous Legalities” - Chapter 25
Vargas Roncancio, I.D., and Chindoy, H., (2020). In Zelle, A., Wilson, G., Adam, R., Greene, H., (eds.). Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law. A practitioner’s Guide. Aspen Coursebook Series. Wolters Kluwer.
“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.
Forest on Trial: Towards a Relational Theory of Legal Agency for Transitions into the Ecozoic.
In: Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet. 2019.
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
Nomadic ecologies: Plants, embodied knowledge, and temporality in the Colombian Amazon
In: Boletin de Antropologia. Vol. 32, # 53. 2017.
Plants and the Law: Vegetal Ontologies and the Rights of Nature. a Perspective from Latin America
In: Australian Feminist Law Journal. Vol.43, # 1. 2017.
Elementos para una evaluación de los cultivos transgénicos en América Latina: apuntes desde el marxismo ecológico
In: Revista de la Maestria en Derecho Economico.Vol. 6. # 6. 2010.
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Contratos de acceso a recursos genéticos: un análisis comparado
In: Pensamiento Juridico. # 27. 2010.