Francisco Montaño is a research assistant and a PhD student in the project Wealth & Space. His research focuses on socio-ecological conflicts from the perspective of labor as well as the development of community alternatives to capitalist projects of development. He has investigated conflict management practices in Zapatista communities, activist resistance against mega-projects and the impacts of intellectual property frameworks of plant varieties on peasant agriculture, all of them in Mexico. He strives to orient his personal, political and academic practice according to an ethics of care, epistemic plurality and reflexivity, situated responsibility and a decolonizing approach.

Research interests

• Socio-ecological reproduction
• Nature-society relations in the Global South
• Degrowth and sustainability
• Socio-ecological crisis
• Extractivism and global trade

Publications

• Montaño, Francisco (2024). Tres formas de caer en Laboratorio sobre Estudios en Empresas Transnacionales [2024], Crónicas de la bifurcación. Boletín del LET, Year 2, Number 5, IIEc-UNAM, Mexico, May-July. URL: https://tinyurl.com/47ur58us
• Montaño, Francisco (2024). ¿Cómo escribir una tesis desde una epistemología situada? Fondo Editorial UPDS. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12733687
• Montaño, Francisco (2023). Experiencias campesinas en la conservación de semillas: la región norte del estado de México in Jönsson, M., et al. Cuidando nuestras semillas: experiencias campesinas en la conservación, defensa y protección del maíz nativo en México, Semillas de vida, Mexico. ISBN: 978-607-96456-4-9
• Montaño, Francisco (2022). Comercio global, sustentabilidad y justicia social: un análisis interdisciplinario. Revista CoPaLa, (14), 17-28. In Spanish. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35600/25008870.2022.14.0213
• Montaño, Francisco (2019) Una revisión de los escenarios del IPCC SR1.5. Considerando otras alternativas en Alternativas para limitar el calentamiento global en 1,5º C. Heinrich Böll Stiftung México. URL: https://tinyurl.com/343eudn7

Professional Background