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Rodríguez, Dr. Fabricio

Position at ABI:
E-mail:
fabricio.rodriguez [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone:
+49 (0)761-8887842
Areas of research:
Global inequalities and South-South relations, natural resource conflicts and socio-ecological transitions, critical IR-theory
Regional focus:
Latin America from a transregional perspective (China-Latin America-Europe)
Education:
2013-2018
Ph.D. International Politics, University of Freiburg
1999-2006
M.A. Political Science & Philosophy, University of Freiburg
1997-1999
B.A. Studies in Economics & Cultural Studies, Trent University
1995-1997
I.B. International Baccalaureate, Pearson College UWC Canada
Professional experience:
Since 2022
Senior Researcher - Knowledge in Dialogue & Transfer(s), BMBF-Network Postcolonial hierarchies in peace and conflict (Hierarchies)
Since 2018
Guest Lecturer of International Politics, University of Freiburg
2016-2022
Researcher (Post-Doc), Junior Research Group "Bioeconomy and Inequalities", Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (BMBF)
2013-2022
ALMA Fellow & Associate Researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg
2015-2016
Researcher (Pre-Doc), Department of Development Theory and Policy, University of Freiburg
Since 2013
Consultant in International Development, Higher Education Cooperation. Focus Latin America (IADB, Mesopartner, GIZ, BMZ, DAAD)
2011-2013
Advisor to the national urban planning and land use policy of Guatemala, SEGEPLAN/GIZ Guatemala
2007-2011
Regional economies and land use policy in municipalities affected by civil war in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala, GIZ Guatemala
2005-2006
Teamleader National Concertation System
National Modernization Council, Ecuador

Projects:

Postcolonial hierarchies in peace & conflict, BMBF-funded collaborative project of the Center for Conflict Studies at the Philipps University Marburg, the University of Bayreuth, the University of Erfurt and the ABI Freiburg.

Bioeconomy & Social Inequalities,  BMBF-Junior Research Group, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Trade & Investment / China-Brazil - completed).

Articles:

Julia Gurol, Alke Jenss, Fabricio Rodríguez, Benjamin Schuetze & Cita Wetterich (2023): Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state, Globalizations. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2162290 (free access)

Rodríguez, Fabricio; Bazán Seminario, César (2023): Authoritarian practices between ‘para-coloniality’ and ‘cheap security’: when Chinese state capital meets neoliberal copper mining (and protests) in Las Bambas, Peru, Globalizations. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2023.2179813 (open access)

Rodríguez, Fabricio (2023): “Changing Theory. Concepts from the Global South” by Dilip Menon (ed.), International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 54(1), 105-108. https://doi.org/10.11588/IQAS.2023.1.21785

Rodríguez, Fabricio (2022): Entre la incertidumbre y el hambre. La guerra en Ucrania y su relación con la energía y los alimentos. Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica 22(4), pp.11-17. https://revistafal.com/fal-22-4/

Gurol, Julia; Rodríguez, Fabricio (2022): “Contingent power extension” and regional (dis)integration: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its consequences for the EU, Asia Europe Journal. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-022-00651-9 (open access)

Tyfield, David; Rodríguez, Fabricio (2022): China beyond China. Infrastructuring and Ecologising a New Global Hegemony? Editorial. International Quarterly for Asian Studies 53(2), pp. 171-180. https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2022.2.19448 (open access)

Tyfield, David; Rodríguez, Fabricio (2022): Against and For China’s Ecological Civilisation: Economising the Bios or “Life-ising” Transition? International Quarterly for Asian Studies 53(3), pp. 441-469. https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2022.3.15525 (open access)

Luo, Anran; Rodríguez, Fabricio & Leipold, Sina (2022): Explanations of the political gridlock behind international circular economy: Waste Ban narratives in the China-EU cooperation. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01758-4 (open access)

Rodríguez, Fabricio; Rüland, Jürgen (2022): Cooperative counter-hegemony, interregionalism and ‘diminished multilateralism’: the Belt and Road Initiative and China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Journal of International Relations and Development, pp. 476-496. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-021-00248-6 (open access)

Rodríguez, Fabricio (2020): „Süd-Süd-Beziehungen und Bioökonomie. Die chinesisch-brasilianische Handelsachse“, PERIPHERIE, Vol. 40, Nr. 159/160, S. 360–383. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v40i3-4.07 (open access)

Rodríguez, Fabricio (2020): Endstation China? Die globalen Stoffströme auf ihrem Weg durch die „Werkstatt der Welt“. PROKLA, Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 198, S. 89-108. https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v50i198.1857

Special Issues:

Julia Gurol, Alke Jenss, Fabricio Rodríguez, Benjamin Schuetze & Cita Wetterich (2023): Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state, Globalizations. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2162290

Tyfield, David; Rodríguez, Fabricio (2022): China beyond China, Part I. Infrastructuring and Ecologising a New Global Hegemony? International Quarterly for Asian Studies 53(2). https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqas/issue/view/795 (open access)

Tyfield, David; Rodríguez, Fabricio (2022): China beyond China, Part II. Infrastructuring and Ecologising a New Global Hegemony? International Quarterly for Asian Studies 53(3). https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqas/issue/view/1116 (open access)

(Co-)Edited volumes:

Backhouse, Maria; Lehmann, Rosa; Lorenzen, Kristina; Lühmann, Malte; Puder, Janina; Rodríguez, Fabricio; Tittor, Anne (Eds.): Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68944-5 (open access)

Book chapters:

Rodríguez, Fabricio; Gurol, Julia (2023): Infrastructure, development and the environment in a landscape of spatial reconfigurations across the Global South: the case of the Belt and Road Initiative. In Benedicte Bull, Mariel Aguilar-Støen (Eds.): Handbook on International Development and the Environment: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 200–215. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800883789.00022

Rodríguez, Fabricio (2021): „Contested Resources and South-South Inequalities: What Sino-Brazilian Trade Means for the “Low-Carbon” Bioeconomy.“ In: Backhouse, Maria et al. (Eds.): Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 265–285. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68944-5_13 (open access)

Backhouse, Maria; Lehmann, Rosa; Lorenzen, Kristina; Puder, Janina; Rodríguez, Fabricio; Tittor, Anne (2021): Introduction: „Contextualizing the Bioeconomy in an Unequal World: Biomass Sourcing and Global Socio-Ecological Inequalities.“ In: Backhouse, Maria et al. (Eds.): Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 3–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68944-5_1 (open access)

Gurol, Julia; Rodríguez, Fabricio (2020): Desintegration statt Konnektivität? Chinas Belt and Road Initiative als außenpolitische Herausforderung für die EU. In: Andreas Grimmel (Ed.): Die Neue Europäische Union. Zwischen Integration und Desintegration. Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 235–257.

Huizar, Richard; Rodríguez, Fabricio (2020): Privatization. In: Kaltmeier, Olaf; Tittor, Anne; Hawkins, Daniel; Rohland, Eleonora (Eds.): The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas. London und New York: Routledge, pp. 182-191.

Backhouse, Maria; Tittor, Anne; Rodríguez, Fabricio (2020): Energy. In: Kaltmeier, Olaf; Tittor, Anne; Hawkins, Daniel; Rohland, Eleonora (Eds.): The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas. London und New York: Routledge, pp. 78-92.

Rodríguez, Fabricio (2019): China y América Latina en la nueva normalidad. Elementos de análisis en perspectiva Sur-Sur, in: Pamela Aróstica, Walter Sánchez (Eds.): China y América Latina en una nueva fase: desafíos en el siglo XXI. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria, pp. 41–62.

Working Papers:

Cobb, Michael; Hampel, Annika; Missbach, Antje; Muhammad, Dilshad; Rodríguez, Fabricio (2020): "Insiders" and "Outsiders": Reflections on Hierarchies, Privileges and Positionalities in Academic Research. ABI Working Paper Nr. 15. Freiburg. https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/insiders-and-outsiders-reflections-on-hierarchies-privileges-and-positionalities-in-academic

Rodríguez, Fabricio (2020): ¿Pandemia, petróleo y deuda?: El concatenamiento China-Ecuador en el escenario post COVID-19. Working Paper Series (WPS), REDCAEM, Revista N°16, mayo. Eje Economía, Comercio e Inversión. Serie Especial COVID-19. Red China y América Latina: Enfoques Multidisciplinarios (REDCAEM). http://chinayamericalatina.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/WP16-May-2020-REDCAEM.pdf

Backhouse, Maria; Rodríguez, Fabricio; Tittor, Anne (2019): From a fossil towards a renewable energy regime in the Americas? Socio-ecological inequalities, contradictions and challenges for a global bioeconomy. Working Paper 10 der BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe „Bioökonomie und soziale Ungleichheiten“. https://www.bioinequalities.uni-jena.de/sozbemedia/WorkingPaper10.pdf

Maria Backhouse, Kristina Lorenzen, Malte Lühmann, Janina Puder, Fabricio Rodríguez, Anne Tittor (2017): Bioökonomie-Strategien im Vergleich. Gemeinsamkeiten, Widersprüche und Leerstellen, Bioeconomy & Inequalities, Working Paper Nr. 1, Jena. https://www.bioinequalities.uni-jena.de/sozbemedia/neu/2017-09-28+workingpaper+1.pdf

Further publications:

Fabricio Rodríguez, César Bazán Seminario (2023): Späte Nutznießer des Kolonialismus. Chinesische Staats­unternehmen als para­koloniale Akteure in Peru. iz3w 398, S. 16-17. https://www.iz3w.org/artikel/peru-bergbau-china-neokolonialismus

Rodríguez, Fabricio; Wetterich, Cita (2023): Dekolonisierung der Hochschule. Im Spannungsfeld von Wissensproduktion und Wissensvermittlung. Forum Wissenschaft 2/2023. https://www.bdwi.de/forum/archiv/archiv/11153099.html

Rodríguez, Fabricio (2020): Brasilien 2020. Ein Jahr nach Amtsantritt von Jair Bolsonaro. Brasilicum 256, März 2020, S. 25-27.

Rodríguez, Fabricio (2019): Bolsonaros Anti-Klimapolitik für Brasilien: Düstere Aussichten auf Nachhaltigkeit. Brasilicum 252, S. 13-14.

Rodríguez, Fabricio (2018): Zwei grüne Megaakteure? Die bioökonomische Kooperation zwischen Brasilien und China. Bioökonomie-kapital am gedeihen-IZ3W Informationszentrum 3. Welt, S. 20-21.

Dissertation:

Rodríguez, Fabricio (2018): Oil, minerals, and power. The political economy of China’s quest for resources in Brazil and Peru. Doctoral Thesis. University of Freiburg. https://doi.org/10.6094/UNIFR/194748

Online contributions (selection):

Rodríguez, Fabricio (2022): Review: Sumak Kawsay is not Buen Vivir, by Javier Cuestas-Caza. In: ALMA Reviews, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute Freiburg [Blog]. Published 17 January 2022. https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/alma-reviews-blog-sumak-kawsay-is-not-buen-vivir

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