Mesoamerican Political Ecology

This cluster investigates the convergent forces of climate volatility, land dispossession, migration, labor exploitation, intimate survival strategies, local resistance, and subaltern knowledge production. It foregrounds feminist critique, Indigenous sovereignty, and the lived precarity of working lives across the Mesoamerican isthmus. The scholarship generated here provides KU with a comparative foundation for hemispheric inquiry oriented toward the political ecology of vulnerability and resilience.