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Dr Adriana Su谩rez Delucchi is a Visiting Research Fellow in 2023-24 and was an IAS/UCL Anthropocene Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Indigenous Ecologies & Environmental Crisis from Jan to Dec 2023
Adriana is a geographer (PUC, Chile) and holds听a Master鈥檚 in Environmental Management (Macquarie University, Australia)听and a PhD in Sustainable Futures (University of Bristol).听
Her research focuses on natural resource management institutions at different scales (projects, communities, nation state听and transnational organisations) in contested environments and her work seeks to identify, address听and challenge the marginalisation of rural and indigenous groups from dominant management arrangements.
Although Adriana was trained on quantitative and spatial research methods, she has moved towards using qualitative approaches to research, specifically Institutional Ethnography (IE), and is currently thinking with postcolonial and decolonial studies to analyse environmental governance scale dynamics as relational processes.听
In her PhD research, she worked closely with as they navigated the complex dynamics associated with water rights. Using institutional ethnography, an ontology that is specifically designed to explicate the ways in which people鈥檚 lives are organised by global governance and power dynamics, she mapped the ways in which local communities negotiate access to drinking water and听demonstrated the ways in which their work intersected in important ways with translocal governance frameworks.听
Subsequently, she used IE in her postdoctoral position with the听 project where her role was to map the discourses organised by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly as these shape the lives of campesinos in the Amazon. The larger discursive framework,听called the 'project economy', has clear material consequences for the farmers and ultimately for forest conservation.
Through her research and career thus far, Adriana has developed meaningful and long-standing networks with institutional ethnographers across the globe and is currently actively involved in facilitating training workshops on IE. In 2020, she was elected as a board member for the听听and in 2022, with three other colleagues they听launched the .
Together with colleague Dr Olivia Arigho-Stiles, Adriana helped develop a research cluster that brought听together interdisciplinary research being conducted on Indigenous Ecologies and Environmental Crisis within the IAS, UCL Anthropocene听and beyond.
Adriana's research project at the IAS focused听on the experiences of Indigenous leaders who are actively participating in the process of socio-environmental transformation in Chile. This study particularly听focused听on attempts to write听a constitution with Indigenous values at its centre.
Publications
- Su谩rez Delucchi, A., Sachet, E., Chavarro, M.J., Escobar, M.P. (2022) Becoming a 鈥榞ood producer鈥� in the agri-environmental project organisation. Journal of Rural Studies, 96: 207-216.
- Su谩rez Delucchi, A.听(2022). El Mostrador (Chilean electronic newspaper).
- Su谩rez-Delucchi, A.听(2022)听Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region,听The AAG Review of Books,听10:1,听8-10,听
- Murray, 脫., Ablett, E., & Su谩rez Delucchi, A.听(2021).听Between orthodoxy and openness: a book review essay on: The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography: edited by Paul C. Luken and Suzanne Vaughan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.听International Journal of Social Research Methodology.听
- Su谩rez Delucchi, A.A. (2018). 鈥楢t-home ethnography鈥�: Insider, outsider and social relations in rural drinking water management in Chile. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 7(2): 199-211.听
- Su谩rez-Delucchi, A. (2018). National Wetland Policy: Chile. In: Finlayson C. et al. (eds) The Wetland Book (pp 771-776). Springer, Dordrecht.
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