Juan Samper
PhD student
Areas of interest:
Political ecology, environmental politics, territory, decoloniality, ethnography
Research
My PhD research is part of Lund University's Agenda 2030 Graduate School. My research will involve analyzing both the discursive and material elements associated to the concept of defending the territory, and its relationship to peace, development, conservation. In particular, I aim to analyze the extent to which the defense of the territory in the Colombian Andean-Amazonic region of the Putumayo is a form of collective action that fills the gap left by political institutions in delivering the peace, development and conservation that people desire and were promised in the peace agreement of 2016.
More information on Lund University's Agenda 2030 Graduate School.
Publications:
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"We live in the territorio, and it lives in us" : Pacification, re-existence, and territorial configuration in the Colombian Andinoamazonia
Juan Antonio Samper
(2026)
Doctoral Thesis (compilation)The visible and invisible drivers of biocultural loss in the Amazon
Torsten Krause, Mairon Bastos Lima, Jesica López, Karolin Obert, Juan Antonio Samper, et al.
(2026) People and Nature, 8 p.1629-1640
ArticleColombia’s long road toward peace : implications for environmental human rights defenders
Torsten Krause, Fariborz Zelli, Ana Maria Vargas Falla, Juan Antonio Samper, Britta Sjöstedt
(2025) Ecology and Society, 30
Article"We fight to the end": On the violence against social leaders and territorial defenders during the post-peace agreement period and its political ecological implications in the Putumayo, Colombia
Juan Antonio Samper, Torsten Krause
(2024) World Development, 177
Article”Studenternas aktivism visar en hoppfull strävan.”
Emma Eleonorasdotter, Dalia Abdelhady, David Bowling, Karin Zackari, Victor Pressfeldt, et al.
(2024) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articleDiscussion Paper on Biosphere Defenders in Latin America and the Caribbean & Written comments to the Escazu Agreement’s Draft Regional Action Plan on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters
Claudia Ituarte-Lima, Natalia Urzola, Valentina Lomanto, Neshan Gunasekera, Maria Andrea Nardi, et al.
(2024)
Consultation Response“Everyone decided to declare war on the forest”: between territorial peace and pacification in the Colombian Andean-Amazon
Juan Antonio Samper, Torsten Krause, Jesica López
(2024) Ecology and Society, 29
ArticlePolitikerna struntar i klimatforskningen : 420 forskare: Regeringens politik är katastrofal – nu måste fler svenskar kräva en omställning
Glenn Bark, Karin Gerhardt, Jeannette Eggers, Paul Glantz, Maria Wolrath Söderberg, et al.
(2023) Aftonbladet Debatt
Newspaper articleNog nu, politiker – ta klimatkrisen på allvar
Karin Gerhardt, Kimberly Nicholas, Wim Carton, Anika Binte Habib, Diego Galafassi, et al.
(2022) Aftonbladet Debatt, -
Newspaper articleDe unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten
Christina Moberg, Hervé Corvellec, Anders Lindroth, Manuela Isacson, Linn Nilsson, et al.
(2022) Aftonbladet
Newspaper articleClimate Politics in Green Deals : Exposing the Political Frontiers of the European Green Deal
Juan Antonio Samper, Amanda Schockling, Mine Islar
(2021) Politics and Governance, 9 p.8-16
Article
Short bio
Juan is a doctoral student at Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS). He holds a bachelor's degree in Law from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia) and a master's degree in environmental studies and sustainability science from Lund University. Prior to his doctoral research, Juan conducted ethnographic research in the Andean-Amazonic region of Putumayo, Colombia, and policy analysis in climate politics focused on Green New Deals.
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