Iokine Rodriguez Fernandez

Iokiñe Rodríguez is a Professor in Environment and Development from the School of Global Development (DEV) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and part of DEV’s Global Environmental Justice Group. She trained as a sociologist in Venezuela, and uses local environmental knowledge and participatory action-research to help transform environmental conflicts and achieve environmental justice. Her work on environmental conflict transformation focuses on issues of local history, local knowledge, cultural revitalization, power, equity and intercultural dialogue. She has worked building local and institutional capacity to transform environmental conflicts in Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico.  She is co-editor of a new Pluto Press publication “Just Transformations: grassroots struggles for alternative futures (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745344775/just-transformations) that looks at how societies can be transformed in the interests of environmental sustainability from the ground up.

For a complete set of publications to date, please see below.