Carlos Del Cairo

Carlos Del Cairo is a Colombian anthropologist working on issues of political ecology in the Amazon region since 1996. He got a BA in Anthropology from the Universidad del Cauca (1998), a M.Sc. in Anthropology from the University of Montréal (2001), and a Ph.D. in Anthropology with a minor in Environmental Anthropology from the University of Arizona (2012). Carlos started his academic concerns analyzing territorial conflicts between indigenous peoples and settlers in the Amazon frontier. Later, he focused on analyzing the political ecology of indigenous lands. During the last six years, Carlos has been involved in analyzing the way in which conservation policies, including ecotourism, affect peasant populations living in protected areas in the Amazon region of Colombia. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia), and he is part of a research team working on issues of political ecology, land conflicts, conservation policies, and social-ecological transitions in the colonization areas of southeastern Colombia.