Meet Enrique Aliste Almuna, geographer specializing in Chile (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
The collection "Portraits of Researchers in Area Studies" (PEA) is a series of large-format interviews produced by Inalco as part of the Language and Cultural Area Studies (LaCAS) project. Deposited on the MediHal open archive, this series of portraits joins a set of collections on the LaCAS platform. These collections aim to build up a living, freely accessible scientific heritage of research into the world's languages, societies and cultures.
Large-format portrait
Video: A propos des imaginaires du développement : une géographie sociale et culturelle du Chili
An interview conducted by Bastien Sepúlveda, in charge of Digital Humanities (DIRVED, Inalco), directed by Dimitri Galitzine, produced by Inalco (05/09/2024, 59mn)
Podcast:
Enrique Aliste is Professor of Geography at Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne and a member of the Développement et Sociétés laboratory (DevSoc, UMR 201). In this article, he describes his career and research activities between Chile and France, as well as his position at the crossroads of the North and South. It discusses social and cultural geography, the social production of space, political ecology and the imaginaries of development, in cities as well as in rural areas, and across the whole of south-central Chile.
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Enrique Aliste holds a PhD in geography of training development studies from EHESS in Paris, France. A university professor since September 2024 at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he is director of the Sorbonne Institute of Development Studies (IEDES), a collaborating researcher at the Center for Climate Science and Resilience (CR2) since 2019, and a member of the Advisory Board of the UNESCO Chair "Global Understanding for Sustainability" at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany.
Professor at the University of Chile for 20 years, his research focused on social and cultural geography oriented towards socio-environmental issues and sustainability, subjects on which he has directed several research projects and published dozens of articles and 6 books, including La reinvención de la naturaleza en Patagonia-Aysén (LOM, 2023) and Geografías del devenir (LOM, 2020).
His work was awarded the National Geography Prize of the Chilean Society of Geographical Sciences SOCHIGEO in 2018, and by the American Geographical Society's Wrigley-Fairchild Prize in 2023.
He was Research Fellow of the French Institute for Advanced Studies, FIAS, at the Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions - MAK'IT, at the University of Montpellier (2023-2024), and visiting professor and researcher at the IHEAL-CREDA of the University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle, the EHESS, the University of Caldas (Colombia) and the University of Helsinki (Finland).