Eleonora Fanari

Skilled Researcher enthusiastic about supporting a just conservation agenda. Passionate about environmental justice, Indigenous knowledge, feminist approach to conservation, decolonial science and degrowth.

• Losing ground: How are India's conservation efforts putting the local communities in peril? A thematic map of conservation conflicts in India's protected areas demonstrates how tight wildlife policies have eroded indigenous and local residents' rights. Developed by the EJAtlas team in collaboration with Kalpavriksh, India. https://ejatlas.org/featured/conflictprotectedareaindia
• International online workshop: "The Hidden Side of Conservation: voices from the ground". Conservation organized in collaboration with Bufete de Derechos Humanos, Guatemala, Environmental Justice Atlas and American Friends Service Committee. A conversation between Guatemala, Spain, India, Mexico and Kenya.
• MOOC courses: CLIMATE CHANGE AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES. Organized by UAB via Coursera.

NVivo qualitative data analyses software, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Lightroom, Microsoft (vista 7), Mac OSX, Microsoft Word/Office. 

• Fanari, Eleonora and Pathak Brome, Neema (2019). The Status of Forest Rights in Protected Areas of India. The Indian Journal of Social Work.
• Fanari, Eleonora (2019) Relocation from protected areas as a violent process in the recent history of biodiversity conservation in India. Ecology, economy and Society - the INSEE Journal 2 (1) : 4376.
• Fanari, Eleonora (2021) Struggle for Just Conservation : an analysis of India biodiversity conflicts. Journal of Political Ecology, Vol 28. In Dan Brockinton, Esteve Cordera and Sara Maeste (eds). « The challenges of decolonizing conservation ».
• Arnim Scheidel1, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Anju Helen Bara, Daniela Del Bene,Dominique M. David-Chavez, Eleonora Fanari, Ibrahim Garba, Ksenija Hanaˇek1, Juan Liu, Joan MartínezAlier, Grettel Navas, Victoria Reyes-García, Brototi Roy, Leah Temper, May Aye Thiri, Dalena Tran, Mariana Walter, Kyle Powys Whyte (2023). Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples' lifeways, lands, and rights. In Science Advances 9 (23).
• Fanari, Eleonora (2024) Participatory Security as Forms of Control: Kaziranga National Park, India. Conservation and Society Journal (in publishing).