Dr. Fabricio Rodríguez

Ich untersuche, wie umkämpfte Räume von Extraktion, sozio-ökologischer Transformation und (geo)politischer Auseinandersetzung durch Konflikt, Widerstand und Weltordnungsvisionen geprägt werden. Im Zentrum steht die politische Ökonomie globaler Ungleichheiten sowie die Aushandlung räumlicher Ordnungen durch Infrastrukturen, extraktive Regime und Proteste. Regional liegt mein Fokus auf Lateinamerika und dessen Verflechtungen mit Europa, China und den USA. Ich befasse mich mit dem Zusammenspiel von Autoritarismus, Technologie, Kolonialität und Ökologie sowie mit indigenem Wissen und alternativen zu westlichen Entwicklungspfaden. Meine Arbeit verbindet internationale Forschung, langjährige Erfahrung in der Politikberatung im Globalen Süden, dialogische Lehre und kritischen Wissenstransfer mit transkultureller Ausrichtung.

BETREUUNG

Die Betreuung von B.A.- und M.A.-Arbeiten erfolgt in folgenden Themenfeldern – stets mit einem Fokus auf den Globalen Süden, insbesondere Lateinamerika:

• Linie 1: Macht, Extraktivismus und Raumordnungen
• Linie 2: Frieden, Konflikte und politische Ökologie
• Linie 3: Kolonialität von Wissen, Entwicklung und Nachhaltigkeit

LEHRE

Sommer 2026

• Hauptseminar: The End of Development or Alternatives to Development?

Winter 25/26

• Ringvorlesung: „Politikwissenschaftliche Methoden“, Koordination mit Dr. Angela Geck, Lehreinheit zu Diskursanalyse
• Übung: „Entwicklungstheorien und Entwicklungspolitik“

Sommer 2025  

• Seminar: “Urban politics in Latin America: A comparative approach to state power and popular resistance.” M.A. Political Science, University of Freiburg.
• Seminar: “The spatial construction of peace. Resource conflicts, resistance and environmental justice.” University College Freiburg (UCF), B.A. Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Winter 24/25   

• Seminar: “Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict.” M.A. Political Science, University of Freiburg.

Sommer 2024  

• Seminar: “Decarbonizing for peace? Critical minerals and renewable energies from a global environmental justice perspective.” B.A. Liberal Arts & Sciences, University College Freiburg (UCF).

Winter 23/24   

• Übung: „Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft.“ Seminar für wissenschaftliche Politik, Universität Freiburg.

Sommer 2023  

• Lecture: „Introduction to International Relations.“ M.A. Global Studies Programme (GSP), University of Freiburg.
• Seminar: “Planetary Cities? Urban Protest and Environmental Justice.” B.A. Liberal Arts & Sciences, University College Freiburg (UCF), with Dr. Viviana García Pinzón.

Winter 22/23   

• Übung: „Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft.“ Seminar für wissenschaftliche Politik, Universität Freiburg.
• Seminar: “Postcolonial hierarchies and knowledge production in International Relations. Theoretical perspectives from Latin America.” B.A. Political Science, University of Freiburg.

Sommer 2022  

• Lecture: “Introduction to International Relations.” M.A. Global Studies Programme (GSP), University of Freiburg, with Prof. Dr. Sandra Destradi.
• Seminar: “Beyond the Fossil Horizon? Environmental Justice and Renewable Energies.“ B.A. Liberal Arts and Sciences, University College Freiburg (UCF).

Winter 21/22   

• Grundlageseminar: „Grundlagen der Internationalen Politik.“ Seminar für wissenschaftliche Politik, Universität Freiburg.

Sommer 2021  

• Seminar (Online): „Knowledge for Change? Low-Carbon Transitions and Environmental Justice.“ University College Freiburg (UCF), B.A. Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Winter 19/20   

• Seminar: “Energy, Development, and Ecological Civilization: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Contentious Extension towards Latin America.” B.A., Political Science, University of Freiburg.

Sommer 2019         

• Seminar: “China’s economic diplomacy in Latin America. Material and ideational aspects.“ B.A., Political Science, University of Freiburg.

Winter 18/19          

• Seminar: “Responding to the ecological crisis? Concepts, contexts, inequalities, and conflicts.” M.A., Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, with Jun-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann.
• Seminar: “The struggle for autonomy: Energy politics in Chinese-Latin American relations.“ B.A., Political Science, University of Freiburg.

Winter 15/16          

• Seminar: „Oil, minerals, and politics in Latin America.“ B.A., Political Science, University of Freiburg.
• Seminar: “Managing Public Services in Developing Countries.” Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Politics, Administration & International Relations (PAIR), Zeppelin University.

Sommer 2015         

• Seminar: “Resource Conflicts in South America and South East Asia.“ B.A., Political Science, University of Freiburg.

SPECIAL ISSUES (PEER-REVIEWED)

• (2024): Bioeconomy Governance in the Global South: State of the Art and the Way Forward, Forest Policy & Economics, co-edited with Alexandru Giurca, Rosa Lehmann, Hariati Sinaga, Daniela Kleinschmit, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103403
• (2023): Authoritarian Power beyond the State, Globalizations, co-edited with Julia Gurol, Alke Jenss, Benjamin Schuetze & Cita Wetterich, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2162290
• (2022): China beyond China (Part I). Infrastructuring and Ecologising a New Global Hegemony? International Quarterly for Asian Studies 53(2), co-edited with David Tyfield, https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2022.2.19448
• (2022): China beyond China (Part II). Infrastructuring and Ecologising a New Global Hegemony? International Quarterly for Asian Studies 53(3), co-edited with David Tyfield, https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2022.2.19448

ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED)

• (2024): Bioeconomy Governance in the Global South: State of the Art and the Way Forward, Forest Policy & Economics, co-edited with Alexandru Giurca, Rosa Lehmann, Hariati Sinaga, Daniela Kleinschmit, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103403
• (2023): Authoritarian Power beyond the State, Globalizations, co-edited with Julia Gurol, Alke Jenss, Benjamin Schuetze & Cita Wetterich, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2162290
• (2022): China beyond China (Part I). Infrastructuring and Ecologising a New Global Hegemony? International Quarterly for Asian Studies 53(2), co-edited with David Tyfield, https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2022.2.19448
• (2022): China beyond China (Part II). Infrastructuring and Ecologising a New Global Hegemony? International Quarterly for Asian Studies 53(3), co-edited with David Tyfield, https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2022.2.19448

ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED)

• (2025): Rights of Nature and World Order: Reimagining Socioecological Futures. Global Environmental Politics, online first, with Cristina Espinosa. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep.a.6/131658
• (2024): Transcultural bioeconomy governance in a plurinational state: Sumak Kawsay and bio-based production in two Kichwa territories of Ecuador. Forest Policy & Economics, 163, pp. 103227, with Javier Cuestas-Caza & Lucía Toledo. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103227
• (2023): Authoritarian practices between ‘para-coloniality’ and ‘cheap security’: when Chinese state capital meets neoliberal copper mining (and protests) in Las Bambas, Peru. Globalizations, 21(6), pp. 1057–1075, with César Bazán Seminario. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2023.2179813
• (2023): Explanations of the political gridlock behind international circular economy: Waste Ban narratives in the China-EU cooperation. Ambio, pp. 126-139, with Anran Luo & Sina Leipold. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01758-4
• (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, with David Tyfield. https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2022.3.15525
• (2022): “Contingent power extension” and regional (dis)integration: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its consequences for the EU, Asia Europe Journal (20), pp. 441-456, with Julia Gurol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-022-00651-9
• (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, with Jürgen Rüland. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-021-00248-6
• (2020): Süd-Süd-Beziehungen und Bioökonomie. Die chinesisch-brasilianische Handelsachse, PERIPHERIE 40(159/160), S. 360–383. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v40i3-4.07  

FURTHER ARTICLES & BOOK REVIEWS

• (2023): Book Review: “Changing Theory. Concepts from the Global South” by Dilip Menon (ed.). International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 54(1), pp. 105-108. https://doi.org/10.11588/IQAS.2023.1.21785
• (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.
• (2020): Endstation China? Die globalen Stoffströme auf ihrem Weg durch die „Werkstatt der Welt“. PROKLA (198), S. 89-108. https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v50i198.1857

BOOKS

• (2021): Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, co-edited with Maria Backhouse, Rosa Lehmann, Kristina Lorenzen, Malte Lühmann, Janina Puder, Fabricio Rodríguez, Anne Tittor. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68944-5    

BOOK CHAPTERS

• (2025): From Decentering to (Re)centering in Peace and Conflict Studies: Contestations, Resignification and Collaborations. In: Tripathi, Siddharth & Richter, Solveig (Eds.). Handbook on Peace and Conflict Studies: Perspectives from the Global South(s). Rowman and Littlefield International, in press, with Viviana García Pinzón & Siddharth Tripathi.
• (2025): Energiewende, Machtkämpfe und Konflikte um Ökologie. Kritische Rohstoffe und geopolitische Spannungsfelder zwischen Lateinamerika und China. In: Burchardt, Hans-Jürgen; Dietz, Kristina; Warnecke-Berger, Hannes (Hrsg.): Grüne Energiewende in Lateinamerika. Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 59-79. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748946052
• (2024): Infrastructure, development and the environment in a landscape of spatial reconfigurations across the Global South: The case of the Belt and Road Initiative. In: Bull, Benedicte; Aguilar-Støen, Mariel (Eds.): Handbook on International Development and The Environment. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 200-215, with Julia Gurol.
• (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. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 3–22, with Maria Backhouse, Rosa Lehmann, Kristina Lorenzen, Janina Puder, Fabricio Rodríguez, Anne Tittor. https://doi.org/10.1007/978‑3‑030‑68944‑5
• (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. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 265–285.
• (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, with Julia Gurol.
• (2020): Interregionalism, Global Governance and China’s Relations with Latin America: A Theory Guided Analysis. In: Mario Telò, Yuan Feng (Hrsg.): China and the EU in the Era of Regional and Interregional Cooperation. Brüssel: Peter Lang, pp. 213–237, with Jürgen Rüland.
• (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 & New York: Routledge, pp. 182-191, with Richard Huizar.
• (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 & New York: Routledge, pp. 78-92, with Maria Backhouse & Anne Tittor.
• (2019): China y América Latina en la nueva normalidad. Elementos de análisis en perspectiva Sur-Sur. En: 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.

POLICY PAPERS

• (2025): Mobilisation, Resistance and Popular Memory — Reflections from Santiago de Chile and Santiago de Cali. Policy Paper No. 2, BMBF-Network Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict, Freiburg. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15399372

WORKING PAPERS

• (2025): Un Campo de Alta Tensión: Descarbonización, Transición Energética y Minerales Críticos en las Relaciones China – América Latina. REDCAEM Working Paper Series (WPS). Revista N°43, Red China y América Latina: Enfoques Multidisciplinarios (REDCAEM).
• (2020): „Insiders“ and „Outsiders“: Reflections on Hierarchies, Privileges and Positionalities in Academic Research. ABI Working Paper Nr. 15. Freiburg, with Michael Cobb, Annika Hampel, Antje Missbach, Dilshad Muhammad.
• (2020): ¿Pandemia, petróleo y deuda? El concatenamiento China-Ecuador en el escenario post COVID-19. REDCAEM Working Paper Series (WPS). Revista Nr. 16, Red China y América Latina (REDCAEM).
• (2019): From a fossil towards a renewable energy regime in the Americas? Socio-ecological inequalities, contradictions and challenges for a global bioeconomy. Bioeconomy & Inequalities, Working Paper Nr. 10, Jena; with Maria Backhouse & Anne Tittor.
• (2017): Bioökonomie-Strategien im Vergleich. Gemeinsamkeiten, Widersprüche und Leerstellen. Bioeconomy & Inequalities, Working Paper Nr. 1, Jena, mit Maria Backhouse, Kristina Lorenzen, Malte Lühmann, Janina Puder & Anne Tittor.

PUBLICATIONS FOR NON-ACADEMIC AUDIENCES

• (2025): Zwischen Bananen, Drogenhandel und Gewalt: Die internationalen Auswirkungen der Wahlen in Ecuador. Iz3w 409, mit Isaac Lanan & Robin Dietz.
• (2025): Movilización, Resistencias y Memoria Popular. Los Dos Santiagos. Reporte ilustrado, co-editado con Viviana García Pinzón, ilustraciones por Iván Garzón Mayorga.
• (2023): Brasilien nach dem Regierungswechsel: Welthandel oder Klimaschutz? Tagesspiegel, 03.Januar 2023, mit Ana Helena Palermo Kuss.
• (2022): Toxisch und sozial unverträglich: Wie der Handel mit brasilianischer Biomasse der Idee einer nachhaltigen Bioökonomie zuwiderläuft. FDCL e.V. & Bioinequalities, S. 22-25.
• (2020): Brasilien 2020. Ein Jahr nach Amtsantritt von Jair Bolsonaro. Brasilicum (256), S. 25-27.
• (2019): Bolsonaros Anti-Klimapolitik für Brasilien: Düstere Aussichten auf Nachhaltigkeit. Brasilicum (252), S. 13-14.
• (2018): Zwei grüne Megaakteure? Die bioökonomische Kooperation zwischen Brasilien und China. In: Bioökonomie-kapital am gedeihen-IZ3W Informationszentrum 3. Welt, S. 20-21.