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)

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

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

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).

Networks & Memberships

BMBF-competence network “Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict”

Red China y América Latina (REDCAEM)

Selected Publications

Cuestas-Caza, Javier; Toledo, Lucía; Rodríguez, Fabricio (2024): Transcultural bioeconomy governance in a plurinational state: Sumak Kawsay and bio-based production in two Kichwa territories of Ecuador, Forest Policy & Economics, online first. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103227 (open access)

Julia Gurol, Alke Jenss, Fabricio Rodríguez, Benjamin Schuetze & Cita Wetterich (2023): Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state, Globalizations, 21(6), 1009–1022. 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)

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)

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)

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 (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

Publications

Energiewende, Machtkämpfe und Konflikte um Ökologie. Kritische Rohstoffe und geopolitische Spannungsfelder zwischen Lateinamerika und China

Bioeconomy governance in the global South: State of the art and the way forward

Transcultural bioeconomy governance in a plurinational state: Sumak Kawsay and bio-based production in two Kichwa territories of Ecuador

Authoritarian Power and Contestation Beyond the State. Introduction

Infrastructure, development and the environment in a landscape of spatial reconfigurations across the Global South: the case of the Belt and Road Initiative

Dekolonisierung der Hochschule. Im Spannungsfeld von Wissensproduktion und Wissensvermittlung

"Changing Theory. Concepts from the Global South" by Dilip Menon (ed.)

Authoritarian practices between ‘para-coloniality’ and ‘cheap security’: when Chinese state capital meets neoliberal copper mining (and protests) in Las Bambas, Peru

“Insiders” and “Outsiders”: Reflections on Hierarchies, Privileges and Positionalities in Academic Research