Johana Kunin

    First name
    Johana
    Last name
    Kunin
    How do you self-identify or would like to be identified?
    Woman
    Do you belong to any ethnic minority group of self-identify as an indigenous person?
    No
    Affiliation, organization, or community
    CONICET & UNSAM
    Years of professional or activism experience or of knowledge built on specific indigenous expertise
    10-15 years
    Country of residence
    Languages
    English
    French
    Spanish
    Other (please specify)
    Please specify the additional languages
    Portuguese
    In which geographic region (and sub-region) does your work mostly focus?
    Do you have proven experience in gender and climate change issues?
    No, my work/ area of expertise focuses on other climate related issues
    Please provide your short bio reflecting on your academic, professional and practical background

    Johana Kunin holds a PhD in Social Anthropology (EHESS, France & IDAES/UNSAM, Argentina). She isa Tenured Researcher at Argentine National Center for Scientific Research CONICET (Strategic Issues: Environment Commission). She holds a Master's in International Studies (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and a Social Anthropology Bachelor's Degree (Licence en Ethnologie, Université Paris 8, France). She is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at UNSAM. She has published and presented her work in several national and international publications and conferences. She is currently describing and analyzing how people and communities negotiate the tensions between economic prosperity and environmental and health impacts and what the practices, ideas, and feelings underlying agricultural biotechnology can tell us about contemporary agriculture and our tense relationship with nature. For her doctoral dissertation, she investigated the relationship between social organization of care, power and agency of women producing agroecologically in the Argentine Pampas. She was a consultant for the UN's ECLAC and for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. She was a research fellow at CLACSO and CONICET.  



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    Curriculum vitae
    Are you interested in being contacted for any of the following
    Panelist at climate change event
    Advisory in technical assistance project
    Contributor to research/publication
    Interviewed by the media