Faculty Member
Juan Camilo Cajigas Rotundo
- Email Address(es)
- cajigasrjuan(at)javeriana.edu.co
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- Position
- Assistant Professor
- SGS Status
- Associate Member
- Appointment Status
- Status Only
Research Interests
Ontological politics, mending ecologies, affect, decolonial theory, nature-cultures
Teaching Experience
2022-present. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Colombia. Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies (Tenure Track). Courses: Environmental Humanities, Political Ontologies, Introduction to Cultural Studies, Research Methods in Cultural Studies.
2019. Universidad El Bosque. Colombia. Lecturer in Humanities Department. Course: Contemporary Social Theory.
2016 Fall quarter. University of California, Davis. Teaching Assistant Professor Julie Sze. American Studies and Environmental Justice.
2013 Fall quarter. University of California, Davis. Spanish Department. Readership. Professor Francisco Alarcón. Chicano Culture.
2012 Fall/Spring quarter. University of California, Davis. Spanish Department. Readership. Professor Robert Irwin. Topics in Spanish American Cultural Studies.
2012 Winter quarter. University of California, Davis. Anthropology. Teaching Assistant. Cultural Anthropology. Professor Marisol de la Cadena and Alan Klima. Cultural Anthropology.
2009-2011 Universidad de La Salle. Departamento de Formación Lasallista (Humanidades). Courses: Contemporary social problems, Ethics and Human and sustainable development.
2008-2011 Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales. Escuela de Ciencias Ambientales. Course: Environmental History and Philosophy.
Book Chapters
2023. ‘Obedeciendo a la vida’ Environmental Citizenship Reconfigured? In Papadopoulos, D. Puig de la Bella Casa, M. Taccheti, M. Ecological Reparation. Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict. Bristol University Press.
2018. What is nature? On the political ontology of Latin-American socioecological movements. In Masaeli, M. Bula, G. Harrington, S. Latin American Perspectives on Global Development. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2015. Enredos telúricos. Geo-ontologías y geo-poéticas de la Tierra. En: Noguera de Echeverri Patricia. Grupo de Pensamiento Ambiental. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Manizales.
2014. Cultures of re-enchantment of the world. Micropolitics, spirituality and sustainability. In: Eschenhagen, Maria (Ed.) Alternatives to Development. Pontificia Universidad Bolivariana. Medellín.
2010. Cognitive spheres and ecosophical practices. Toward a biocentric criticism. In: Eschenhagen, Maria (Ed.) Open the social sciences to the environmental dimension. Instituto de Estudios Sociales Contemporaneos (IESCO). Universidad Central. Bogotá.
2008. Post-western wisdom: a perspective from Amazon peoples. In: Dupas Gilberto (Org.) Environment and economic growth. Instituto de Estudos Economicos e Internacionais. Editora Unesp. Sao Paulo. Brazil.
2007. The Bio-coloniality of power. Epistemic mapping around abundance and shortage. In: Castro-Gómez Santiago; Grosfoguel Ramón. The decolonial turn. Siglo del Hombre Editores, Instituto de Estudios Sociales Contemporaneos IESCO. Universidad Central. Bogotá.
Journal Publications
Guest Editor
2018. Ecologías Afectivas: Performatividad y corporalizaciones sociosituadas. No. 4 Revista Corpografías. Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (UDFJC) Facultad de Artes (Academia Superior de Artes de Bogota – ASAB). (en prensa).
2017. Pensamiento crítico indígena en el norte global. No. 26. Revista Tabula Rasa. Enero-Junio 2017. Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca.
2016. Special Issue Editor. Antropology and Life. Dossier de Antropología Universidad de Antioquia. Colombia.
Articles
2018. Vitalidad: Emanaciones-de-Lugar. Revista Corpografías. No. 4 Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (UDFJC) Facultad de Artes (Academia Superior de Artes de Bogota – ASAB).
2017. Ontoepistemologías Indígenas. Tabula Rasa. No. 26 Enero-Junio. Bogotá. Colombia.
2015. Una Etica no Dualista de la Presencia y del Cuidado del Bios. Cuadernos de Etica. Argentina.
2008. Capoeira angola: flight between hummingbirds. Decolonization technology of subjectivity. In: Tabula Rasa. No.9. July-December. pp. 103-115. Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca.
2007. Aesthetics of re(ex)sista(e)nce. Through the decolonization paths of the subjectivity. Nómadas, May 26th, 2007. Instituto de Estudios Sociales Contemporaneos. Universidad Central. Bogotá.
2005. The Bio-centric viewpoint. Notes for a post-binary vision of mind/body and society/nature relations. Online journal IDEAS AMBIENTALES, No3. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Manizales.
Grants
2019-2022 Becas Postdoctorales Minciencias. Colombia
2018-2019 Provost Dissertation Fellowship. University of California, Davis.
2012-2017 Fulbright-Colciencias –Ph.D. Cultural Studies. University of California, Davis.
2013. Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures. University of California, Davis.
2012. Mellon Research initiative in Environment and Societies. University of California, Davis.
2006 SEPHIS Program – Center for African-Eastern Studies. Salvador Bahía. Brazil
2005 Tropenboss Foundation (Holland). Leticia. Colombia.
1999 Tropenboss Foundation (Holland). Araracuara. Colombia.
Research
2023. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Colombia. Assistant Professor (Tenure Track). Environmental Humanities.
2019-2022. Instituto de Recursos Naturales Alexander von Humboldt. Colombia. Postdoctoral Researcher. Knowledge practices and political ontologies in the Paramos of Colombia.
2017. Davis Humanities Institute. Dissertation Workshop. Davis Humanities Institute – University of California, Davis
2007-2008 Institute of Economic and International Studies (I.E.E.I) – European Union (São Paulo, Brazil). Research: conformation of intercultural scientific communities in the structural tensions framework between environment and economic growth.
2006-2007 Institute of Environmental Studies. National University, Manizales branch. Research: Situated, embodied and relational knowledge.
2005 Fundación Tropenboss-Colombia (Colombia-Holland). Research: Amazon, Biodiversity and Eco-capitalism.
2001 (March-October) Institute of Environmental Studies (IDEA), National University of Colombia, Bogotá. Research assistant, Professor Julio Carrizosa Umaña. Book correction Colombia: from imagination to complexity, IDEA, 2003. Book Promotion The complex environmental vision, Unibiblos, Pnuma, 2000.
2000 Fundación Tropenboss-Colombia (Colombia-Holland). Research: Environmental Ethics and World-view-action Murui-Muina.