Faculty

Dr. Abigail Perez Aguilera is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at The New School.  She has a background in International Relations and Justice Studies.  Her work focus on the construction of expertise in environmental justice cases.Her most recent work is titled “Affective Multi-Species Resistance as Radical Imaginations” to be published in an edited volume by Bloomsbury in 2023. As part of her research she will published the article “The End of Nature and the Human: A Global South Ecofeminist Approach to the Anthropocene” in the edited volume titled  “Critical Environmental Reflections in the Anthropocene: Making Sense of Nature” to be published in 2024 by Taylor and Francis. She has co-authored the following articles; “Decolonize, ReIndigenize: Planetary Crisis, Biocultural Diversity, Indigenous Resurgence and Land Rematriation” (2021)  in the edited volume Contesting Extinctions: Critical Relationality, regenerative futures. Recently, she co-organized a panel discussion titled “Uncommon Collaborations: Bringing Humanities and Sciences Together for Planetary Healing (II) for the Biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE). This panel was part of her work for the Humanities for the Environment Latin American Observatory Panel. As part of the panel, she presented a paper titled “Mapping the Body-Territory to Restore the Commons: A Multidisciplinary Approach from Latin America” in August of 2022, she presented a paper titled “Cuerpo-Territorio and Multispecies Cosmopolitics" at the Earth Crisis and the Global Environmental Movement conference hosted by the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at The New School, based on her current research on land-body entanglements and decolonial approaches to critical geographies. She has spoken on panels about decolonial feminisms, radical imaginations and environmental justice. In 2022, she spoke in a panel titled Indigenous Futures organized by Columbia Climate School, and in November of 2022, she spoke at the Jahadee Sisters Summit Love We More where she spoke about decolonization, radical imaginations and Global South feminisms. She has been invited as a lecturer at Humboldt State University, and Northern Arizona University. 

PhD, Justice Studies and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation. Arizona State University (2016)

Masters in Science. Justice Studies and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation. Arizona State University. (2012)

Certificate. Women's Studies. Programa Internacional de Estudios de la Mujer. Colegio de México.

Graduate Specialization. Sociology of Higher Education. Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico (2009)

Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, Honors Thesis. Universidad de las Americas, Mexico. (2006)

• Perez Aguilera, Abigail. (2025). Affective Multispecies Resistance as Radical Imaginations. Grassroots Responses to Extractivism: Case Studies from Around the World, 215.

• Figueroa Helland, L. E., Perez Aguilera, Abigail., & Mantz, F. (2021). Decolonize, ReIndigenize: planetary crisis, biocultural diversity, indigenous resurgence, and land rematriation. Contesting extinctions: decolonial and regenerative futures, 61-150.

• Figueroa-Helland, Leonardo, Cassidy Thomas, and Abigail Pérez Aguilera. "Decolonizing food systems: Food sovereignty, indigenous revitalization, and agroecology as counter-hegemonic movements." Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 17.1-2 (2018): 173-201.

• Perez Aguilera, Abigail (2016). The Wirikuta Case Abigail Pérez Aguilera. Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America: Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature, 179.

• Perez Aguilera, Abigail (2016). The Tangibility of Maize: Indigenous Literature, Bioart, and Violence in Mexico. In Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies (pp. 222-240). Routledge.

• Pérez-Aguilera, Abigail, & Figueroa-Helland, L. E. (2011). Beyond Acculturation: Political" Change", Indigenous Knowledges, and Intercultural Higher-Education in Mexico. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS), 9(2).