Dr. Alejandro Mora Motta

Degrees / expertise

(Candidate) Dr Phil. in the area of Development Studies, University of Bonn

MSc Environment and Development, IDEA, FCE, National Univesity of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

BA in Economics, FCE, National Univesity of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Professional experience

Lecturer (see teaching)

One-year visiting postgraduate researcher, RLC Campus Austral-Valdivia, FACEA, Austral University of Chile

Supervisors of
doctoral work

Prof. Dr. Eva Youkhana

Advisor at ZEF

Dr. Till Stellmacher

2022

Avilés-Irahola, D.; Mora-Motta, A; Pereira, A.B.; Bharati, L.; Biber-Freudenberger, L.; Petersheim, C., Quispe-Zuniga, M. R.; Schmitt, C. B.; & Youkhana, E.. 2022. Integrating scientific and local knowledge to address environmental conflicts: The role of academia.. Human Ecology, . (Open Access) Further Information

Mora-Motta, A.; Stellmacher, T.; Barrera, MdV.. 2022. Fundamental Human Needs and socio-ecological transformation: a reflection on methodology in a context of expanding tree plantations in southern Chile. International Journal of Sustainable Development (IJED), 25(1/2) : 53-77 . Further Information

2021

Fuders, F. & Mora-Motta, A.. 2021. El Índice de Desarrollo a Escala Humana: una primera evaluación. In: Oyarzún Ortega, C., Donoso Hiriart, P., & Núñez, J. (eds.): Historia Natural, Servicios Ecosistémicos y Perspectivas de Desarrollo de la Cuenca de Llancahue, Valdivia, Chile. Ediciones Kultrún: Valdivia. 173-194.

Youkhana, E., R. Rojas-Robles, D. Avilés-Irahola, A. Mora-Motta, & J. Santander-Durán. 2021. Pensamiento Ambiental, Críticas al Desarrollo y Propuestas en Construcción para la Cooperación Sur-Sur-Norte. Gestión y Ambiente, 24(supl1) : 11-38 . (Open Access) Further Information

2020

Mora-Motta, A. & Stellmacher, T.. 2020. Tree plantations at the last resource frontiers: extractivism and territorialisation in southern Chile. In: Laube, W. & Pereira, A. R. B. (eds.): 'Civilizing' resource investments and extractivism: Societal negotiations and the rule of law. ZEF Development Studies, Vol. 31, Lit Verlag. 115-155.

Mora-Motta, Alejandro; Stellmacher, Till; Pacheco-Habert, Guillermo; Henríquez-Zúñiga, Christian. 2020. Between extractivism and conservation: Tree plantations, forest reserves, and peasant territorialities in Los Ríos, Chile. In: Felix Fuders & Pablo J. Donoso (eds.): Ecological economic and socio ecological strategies for forest conservation: A transdisciplinary approach focused on Chile and Brazil. Springer. 99-125. Further Information

2018

Aranda Camacho, Yesid; Mora-Motta, Alejandro. 2018. Procesos de evaluación de tierras en el ordenamiento productivo agrario de los territorios rurales. In: Molina, Juan; Aranda, Yesid; Lesmes, Angélica (eds.): Desafíos para la implementación de políticas de desarrollo rural con enfoque territorial en Colombia. Editorial Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 167-198. Further Information

Mora-Motta, A.. 2018. Salidas a la crisis ambiental: conciencia relacional, transdisciplinariedad y suficiencia en la base de otra economía (Reseña de Max-Neef, M. Economía Herética: treinta y cinco años a contracorriente. Barcelona: Icaria, 2017). Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, (46) : 357-361 . (Open Access) Further Information

Mora-Motta, Alejandro. 2018. Plantaciones forestales en Chile: ¿hacia un modelo más sustentable?. Gestión y Ambiente, 21 (supl. 2) : 100-116 . (Open Access) Further Information

2017

Mora Motta, A. and N. León Rodríguez. 2017. Cambiando de perspectiva en la economía de la mitigación del cambio climático. Cuadernos de Economia , 36 (70), : 169-195 . Further Information

2012

Ortega-Guerrero, Gustavo; Mora-Motta, Alejandro & Arciniegas-Barrera, Jair. 2012. La regulación social de los bienes comunes: justicia ambiental como salida a una crisis ambiental y climática. In: Gregorio Mesa Cuadros (Ed.) (eds.): Elementos para una teoría de la Justicia Ambiental y el Estado Ambiental de Derecho. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá. 115-148.

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Research themes

Environmental and climate change
Institutions
Social and Cultural Change and Adaptation
Sustainable use of natural resources
Methods
Theories of Development
Development Politics
Politics & Democracy
Governance and conflict

Research countries

Chile
Colombia

Teaching

Intensive Courses:
- Focus Groups (Grad., ZEF A Disciplinary Course, 2019-)
- Case Study Design (Grad., ZEF A Disciplinary Course, 2022-)
- Approaches to political ecology (Grad., DSSP, ZEF, Uni Bonn, 2022)
- Undisciplined methodologies in the social sciences (Grad., DSSP, ZEF, Uni Bonn, 2020-)

Semester Courses:
- Development and nature in Latin America: an overview of the German influence (Undergrad., Uni Bonn, WS 2022/23)
- Social movements: Contentious politics, resistance and repression (with W Laube & A Pereira, Grad. SoPoWi, Uni Bonn, SS 2021)
- Extractivism, resource grabbing, and agricultural commercialisation (with W Laube & A Pereira, Grad. SoPoWi, Uni Bonn, SS 2019-WS 2020/21)
- Human scale development (with MdV Barrera, Grad., FACEA, MEDEH, UACh, Chile)
- Economics and politics of sustainability (Undergrad., FCE, UNAL, Colombia)

Professional experience

Lecturer (see teaching)

One-year visiting postgraduate researcher, RLC Campus Austral-Valdivia, FACEA, Austral University of Chile

Degrees

(Candidate) Dr Phil. in the area of Development Studies, University of Bonn

MSc Environment and Development, IDEA, FCE, National Univesity of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

BA in Economics, FCE, National Univesity of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Funding institutions

DAAD (Right Livelihood College)

Thesis title

The (un)making of an extractivist logging enclave: Fundamental human needs and tree plantations in southern Chile

Supervisors of
doctoral work

Prof. Dr. Eva Youkhana

Advisor at ZEF

Dr. Till Stellmacher

Former Junior Researcher

Former Department :
ZEF A: Department of Political and Cultural Change