Lecturers

Research Interests

Conservation and Development: links between cultural and biological diversity; Indigenous-led conservation; critical and decolonial approaches to conservation; socio-ecological justice

Earth’s Jurisprudence: Natural Law as Human Law; Human rights; Indigenous Rights; Rights of Nature; Intrinsic worth of all beings

Climate Justice: human dimensions of climate change; Indigeneity and climate change; biofuels and oil palm expansion

Geographies of Hope: activating hope for taking care of the land and Indigenous territories and sovereignty/self-determination

Indigenous and Afro-descendant Studies: Identity and Border Studies; Latin American and Hemispheric Studies; (de)coloniality of histories and knowledge; pluriversality  

Collaborative Feminist and Indigenous Methodologies: research ethics and positionality; decolonizing, community-based, and engaged methods; intercultural exchanges and solidarity; decolonial pedogogies

Feminist Geographies: intersectionalities of feminist, critical race, and Indigenous epistemologies; emotional geographies/geographies of affect; “senti-pensante” [thinking with heart] theories and methodologies

Watershed thinking and Earth Worldviews: Indigenous cosmologies; river/forest/human relations; the Human Right to water

Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Juli Hazlewood is an Intercultural Geographer and activist, researcher, writer, and educator from Indiana (USA). She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Roots & Routes IC, an organization dedicated to facilitating the sharing of cultural ways of knowing and compassion between diverse cultures en route to responsibly stewarding a flourishing living world.  For over two decades she has lived and walked with the Chachi, Awá, and Afro-descendant communities of Ecuador’s Pacific Northwestern Chocó rainforests (Esmeraldas Province) to defend and protect their ancestral territories and cultures. In 2014, she also began collaborating with the Karanki people of San Clemente (Imbabura Province). She earned a Ph.D. in Geography at University of Kentucky, a MA in Native American Studies from UC Davis, a MA in Latin American Studies (with a concentration in Tropical Conservation and Development) from University of Florida, and a BA in Community Studies from UC Santa Cruz. Her research, writing, and teaching focus on Geographies of Hope, decoloniality/self-determination and diverse cultural ways of taking care of the Earth, Collaborative Activist Geographical Methodologies (CAGM), and Indigenous, Human, and Nature’s Rights. Since the 1990’s, she has taught in various universities in the U.S., Ecuador, Ireland, and Canada. At the University of California, Santa Cruz, for five years she taught "Amazonian Cultures and Conservation" in the Environmental Studies, and she currently teaches in the Rachel Carson College. 

Honors, Awards and Grants

2020-‘21 Faculty Fellow, Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, University of California, Santa Cruz

2021 Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tier 1 Departmental Co-Funding for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion on Campus ($750), University of California, Santa Cruz

2020 Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tier 1 Departmental Co-Funding for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion on Campus ($650), University of California, Santa Cruz

2018 Award for Changing the Lives of Student-Athletes, Slugs Basketball Team’s Staff Appreciation Night, University of California, Santa Cruz 

2017 Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tier 1 Departmental Co-Funding for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion on Campus ($350), University of California, Santa Cruz

2008 Graduate Student Incentive Program Award ($1250), University of Kentucky

External Fellowship Application Award ($150), University of Kentucky

2004 Native American Studies Block Grant Award ($10,000), University of California at Davis

1st Prize in 2004 Latin American Research Clinic Poster Presentation Competition ($500), University of Florida

Selected Publications

Co-editor and Co-Author of Peer Reviewed Theme Issue 

2022

Julianne A. Hazlewood and Elisabeth Rose Middleton-Manning (Co-editors). Geographies of Hope in Praxis. Introduction and nine articles focusing on geographies of hope. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 

Julianne A. Hazlewood. “Be(y)on(d) the Map: Collaboratively Activating Geographies of (De)CO2loniality/H2Ope in the Chocó Border Region.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. Revise and resubmit to be included in Geographies of Hope in Praxis Special Issue. 

Julianne A. Hazlewood, Beth Rose Middleton-Manning, Victoria Lawson, and Jennifer Casolo. “Geographies of Hope in Praxis: Collaboratively Decolonizing Relations and Cultivating Relational Spaces”. Introduction to theme issue of Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. Revise and resubmit to be included in Geographies of Hope in Praxis Special Issue. 

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications 

2012

Julianne A. Hazlewood. “CO2lonialism and the ‘Unintended Consequences’ of Commoditizing Climate Change: Geographies of Hope amid a Sea of Oil Palms in the 

Northwest Ecuadorian Pacific Region.” Journal of Sustainable Forestry: International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF) 2008 Special Issue, February 2012, No. 31 (1-2): 125-153.

2010

Julianne A. Hazlewood. “Más Allá de la Crisis Económica : CO2lonialismo y Geografías de Esperanza” [Beyond the Economic Crisis: CO2lonialism and Geographies of Hope]. ICONOS-Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Naturaleza y los Efectos de Crisis de Capitalismo Global [ICONOS-Social Sciences Journal:Nature and the Effects of the Global Crisis of Capitalism], January 2010, No. 36: 81-95.

2008

Julianne Hazlewood. “Red Routes.” Disclosure: a Journal of Social Theory, No. 17, Article 7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.17.07. Available at:  https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol17/iss1/7/

Book Chapters in an Edited Volume

2016

Graddy, Garrett, Harnish, Allison, and Julianne A. Hazlewood. “World is Burning, Sky is Falling: A Young Person’s Guide to Socio-Environmental Action.” Chapter 41 in The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living, Second Edition, edited by Haenn, N., Wilk, R.R. and A. Harnish. New York: New York University Press. 

2016

Harnish, Allison, Hazlewood, Julianne A., Bedker, Amanda, and Sydney Roeder. “A Wonderfully Incomplete Bibliography of Action-Oriented Anthropology and Applied Environmental Social Science.” Chapter 42 in The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living, Second Edition, edited by Haenn, N., Wilk, R.R. and A. Harnish. New York: New York University Press.

Non-Peer Reviewed Journal or Online Publications

2017

Julianne A. Hazlewood and The Communities of La Chiquita and Guadualito. “Court Issues Ruling in World’s First ‘Rights of Nature’ Lawsuit.” Intercontinental Cry. February 16, 2017. https://intercontinentalcry.org/court-issues-ruling-worlds-first-rights-nature-lawsuit/

2015

Julianne A. Hazlewood, Flavia Carlet, Isaha Esequiel Valencia Cuero, y Clelio Germán Ortiz Quiñones. “A Portrait of Human and Environmental Devastation: Stop the Invisibilization: Petition in Solidarity with the Afro-ecuadorian Ancestral Community of La Chiquita and the Awá Indigenous Community of Guadualito versus the Oil Palm Companies of the San Lorenzo Canton, Esmeraldas Province.” Sponsored and Hosted by Indigenous Environmental Network, with support from The Cultural Conservancy. December 31, 2015. http://www.ienearth.org/support-la-chiquita-and-guadualito-ancestral-communities-and-nature/ (in English, Spanish, and Portuguese). 

2011

Julianne A. Hazlewood. “Geografias de Dis(ex)tracción o de Esperanza?” [Geographies of Dis(ex)traction or of Hope?]. Cooperamos, Cooperación y Desarrollo en la Frontera Norte [Cooperation and Development in the Northern Frontier], December 2011, No. 3: 8-10. 

2010

Julianne A. Hazlewood. “CO2lonialismo y Geografías de Esperanza en la Frontera Noroccidental del Ecuador” [CO2lonialism and Geographies of Hope in the Northwestern Frontier of Ecuador]. EN VOZ ALTA. Publicacíón de Asamblea Permanente de Derechos Humanos [Publication of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights], March-April 2010, No. 10: 48-50.

Selected Presentations

Symposiums and Panels Organized 

2016   

As Te Ha Director, I coordinated the First Te Ha Alliance for Indigenous Solidarity Gathering in Guatemala, November 13-20. Sponsored by The Cultural Conservancy and their funders, twenty Mino Niibi Fund Indigenous Organizational Partners, from all over the Americas and the Pacific, in a week-long strategic envisioning and planning meeting.  

Co-organizer of Panel. “How Legal Strategies are Advancing the Rights of Indigenous People and Nature: Cases from Ecuador, Mexico and Brazil.” Latin American Indigenous Funders for Indigenous Peoples: El Buen Vivir: Supporting the Role of Indigenous Peoples in Bio-diversity, Cultural Diversity, Human Rights and Sustainable Economic Models, Lima, Peru, October 25-27

2014

Co-organizer and Fundraiser for Panel. Queen Quet: Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group’s Plenary Speaker. “Gullah/Geechee-Disya Who WEBE: Indigenous Identity and the Sea Islands.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Florida, April 8-12

Co-organizer of Paper Session. “Regenerating Routes of the Decolonial Option: Rooting Decoloniality in Afro-descendant and Indigenous Forest/River Territories in Latin America.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Florida, April 8-12 

2013

Organizer of Paper Session. “Parandose Firmes contra Extractivismo Salvaje y Cultivando Alternativas Post-extractivistas en los Territorios de los Indígenas y Afro-descendientes en el Corazón de la Comunidad Andina” [Standing Firm against Wild Extractivism and Cultivating Post-extractive Alternatives in Indigenous and Afro-descendant Territories in the Heart of the Andean Community]. The First Meeting of the International Congress on Indigenous Peoples in Latin America, 19th-21st Centuries: Advances, Perspectives, and Challenges, Oaxaca, Mexico, October 28-31

Organizer of and Fundraiser for Geographies of Hope Symposium. Coordination of 12 panels about 8 themes central to geographies of hope within the Annual Reunion of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, California, April 9-13. I specificically organized the following sessions within the Geographies of Hope Symposium: “The Plenary: What Exactly are Geographies of Hope? What is hope?”; “Geographies of Hope and ‘Mas Allá”: Cosmologies, Dreams, Emotions, Healing, and ‘Other’ Geographies Be(y)on(d) the Map”; and “Carving out Future Pathways for Geographies of Hope”.

2012

Co-organizer of and Fundraiser for Panel. Oren Lyons: Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group’s Plenary Speaker. “Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change, Agriculture, Sustainability and Territory.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, New York, February 24-29

2011

Organizer of Panel. “Decolonizing, Healing, and Hopeful Geographies: (Re)membering Indigenous Relationships to the World.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Washington, April 12-16 (I also presented on this panel).

2010

Organizer of Paper Session. “Post-Colonial Political Ecologies of Agro-fuel Developments in Latin America: A Ground Up and Cross-Regional Examination.” XXIX International Congress: Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, October 6-9 (I also presented on this panel).

2005

Co-organizer of panel. Latin American Indigenous Women's Perspectives: From Community to International Organizing. Sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute of the Americas (HIA) and Native American Studies at University of California, Davis, Davis, California, May 31

Paper Presentations and Panel/Roundtable Participation at Academic Meetings

2019

Paper Presentation. “Geografías de Esperanza: Colectivamente Descolonizando y Regenerando Relaciones en Territorios Ancestrales en la Frontera Noroccidente del Ecuador [Geographies of Hope: Collectively Decolonizing and Regenerating Relations in Ancestral Territories in the Northwest Border Region of Ecuador]. XVII Encuentro de Geógrafos de América Latina – EGAL 2019, Quito, 9-13 abril 2019.

2018

Paper Presentation. “Intercultural and Collaborative Team Take ‘Decolonizing Methodologies’ into Our Own Hands in the Pacific Coastal Rainforest of Ecuador.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, April 10-14

2017

Paper Presentation. “Afro-descendant and Indigenous Communities in the Borderlands of Ecuador Raise the Bar for Pluricultural Legal Instruments.” The XXXV International Congress: Latin American Studies Association, Lima, Peru, May 27-30

Roundtable Chair and Participation. “Pueblos y Bosques en Resistencia/Peoples and Forests in Resistance.” The XXXV International Congress: Latin American Studies Association, Lima, Peru, May 27-30

2016

Panel Participation. “How Legal Strategies are Advancing the Rights of Indigenous People and Nature: Cases from Ecuador, Mexico and Brazil.” Latin American Indigenous Funders for Indigenous Peoples: El Buen Vivir: Supporting the Role of Indigenous Peoples in Bio-diversity, Cultural Diversity, Human Rights and Sustainable Economic Models, Lima, Peru, October 25-27

Roundtable Presentation. “Indigenous Environments II: Management and Self-Determination.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Eighth Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, May 18-21

Paper Presentation. “Pushing the Boundaries of Place-based Paradigms: Ancestral Peoples’ and Nature's Rights in Pacific Rainforest Margins” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, Mar 29-April 2

Panel Participation (and Session Organizer). “Emotional Political Ecologies.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, Mar 29-April 2

2015

Paper Presentation. “Beyond Resistance and Resilience: Conceptualizing Epistemological Geographies of Hope desde los Bases”. The XXXIII International Congress: Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-30

2014

Panel Participation (and Session Organizer). “Navigating Chachi and Afro-descendant Forest/River Territories and the (De)coloniality of Conservation in the Northwest Pacific Coast of Ecuador.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Florida, April 8-12

2013

Paper Presentation. “’Los Gringos Comen Gente’: Rodeando e Infiltrando Territorios Ancestrales a través del Desarrollo Basado en la Mitigación de Cambio Climático en el Territorio-región del Pacífico del Ecuador”. The First Meeting of the International Congress on Indigenous Peoples in Latin America, 19th-21st Centuries: Advances, Perspectives, and Challenges, Oaxaca, Mexico, October 28-31

Participation in Three Geographies of Hope Symposium Panels: “Sustaining Resilience in the Face of Climate Change”; “Geographies of Hope and ‘Mas Allá”: Cosmologies, Dreams, Emotions, Healing, and ‘Other’ Geographies Be(y)on(d) the Map”; and “Carving out Future Pathways for Geographies of Hope”. Annual Reunion of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, California, April 9-13

2012

Paper Presentation. “’Los Gringos Comen Gente’: Surrounding and Infiltrating Ancestral Territories via Climate Change Mitigation Development in Ecuador’s Pacific Frontier Territory-region”. Global Land Grabbing II: An International Conference on Large-scale Land Deals, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, October 17-19

Discussant. “’Claiming Back What is Ours’: Discourses and Practices of Indigenous Re-territorialisation II.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, New York, February 24-29 

Panel Participation. “Lessons from the Field: Reflections on Human Geography Graduate Research.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, New York, February 24-29 

2011

Panel Participation. “Contemporary Land Grabs I: Implications for Theory, Method and Protest.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Washington, April 12-16

2010

Paper Presentation. “Beyond the Economic Crisis: CO2lonialism and Geographies of Hope in the Ecuadorian Pacific Region.” The XXIX International Congress: Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, October 6-9

Paper Presentation. “From an Extractive Economy to an Ecosystem Services-based Economy in Ecuador: Taking Steps towards a ‘Revolutionary’ Development Paradigm?” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, Apr. 13-18

2009

Paper Presentation. “A Political Ecology of African Oil Palm Plantation Expansion: Afro-Ecuadorian and Indigenous Peoples Challenge CO2lonialism in the Ecuadorian Chocó Region.” XXVIII International Congress: Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 11-14

2008

Paper Presentation. “Architects of Hope: Transitional and Global Landscapes in San Lorenzo, Ecuador.” Latin American Studies Association’s First Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, San Diego, California, May 22-23

Paper Presentation. “Reclaiming, Recreating, and Re-presenting Indigenous Assimilation Experiences in Ethnic Im/migration Geographies.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts, April 15-19 

Paper Presentation. “CO2lonialism: ‘Unintended Consequences’ of Commoditizing Climate Change and Geographies of Hope and Fear in the Northwestern Frontier of Ecuador.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 22-27

2007

Paper Presentation. “Agrofuels or Food Sovereignty? African Oil Palm Plantations and Community Resistance in the Canton of San Lorenzo, Esmeraldas, Ecuador.” Critical Geography Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, October 4-6

Paper Presentation. “The Effects of Postcolonial Property and Governance Legislation as Viewed through Aerial Spraying in Southeast Alaska.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, California, April 17-21

Paper Presentation. “Decolonization and Cultural Resilience of the Chachi People of Esmeraldas, Ecuador.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology: Global Insecurities, Global Solutions, and Applied Anthropology in the 21st Century, Tampa, Florida, March 27-31

2006

Paper Presentation. “Decolonization through International Indigenous Exchange and Study Abroad Programs.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology: World on the Edge, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 28-April 1

Paper Presentation. “Negotiations of Indigenous Peoples and Places in the United Nations’ Spaces.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology: World on the Edge, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 28-April 

Guest Lectures and Invited Talks

2020

Rachel Carson College Earth Day Speaker. “Vision with Action on Earth Day 2020: Standing Together for the Well-being of the Living World.” Online Talk.  

2013

Guest Lecture for Dr. Skye Stephenson’s and Dr. Dottie Morris’s Keene State’s Course Abroad. Global Engagement: Ecuador, Indigenous Cultures, Human Rights and Education. 

2011-‘13

Guest Lecture for Dr. Stefano Varese’s University of California Summer Abroad Program. Sustainable Ecuador. From the Andes to the Amazon. Spend one week with the UC Davis students in the Amazon and give various lectures. 

2011

Invited Talk. “Geographies of CO2lonialism.” Territory, Life, and Freedom in the Pacific Rainforest Region of Colombia and Ecuador: A Mini-workshop on Culture, Ecology and Politics. Nelson Mandela Auditorium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 25

Invited Talk. “Political Ecologies of Post-extractive Development in Ecuador: Geographies of Hope or Dis(ex)traction?” Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 24

2010

Invited Talk. “Capitalizing on the Long Wave Disaster of Climate Change: New Forms of Colonizing Forest Peoples’ and Lands and Communities in Ecuador.” Latin American Studies Graduate Students Symposium, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, February 25-26

2008

Invited Talk. “La Expansión de las Plantaciones de Palma Africana y Geografías de Esperanza en el Chocó Ecuatoriano” [The Expansion of African Oil Palm Plantations and Geographies of Hope in the Ecuadorian Choco]. Julianne Hazlewood and representatives from Afro-Ecuadorian, Awá, and Chachi communities in San Lorenzo: Aquilino Erazo, Jorge Camacho, Daniel Pai, and Milton Tapuyu. FLACSO Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, October 1     

Invited Talk. “La Expansión de las Plantaciones de Palma Africana y Geografías de Esperanza en el Chocó Ecuatoriano” [The Expansion of African Oil Palm Plantations and Geographies of Hope in the Ecuadorian Choco]. Julianne Hazlewood and representatives from Awá and Afro-Ecuadorian communities: Aquilino Erazo and Jairo Cantincus. Fourth meeting of the Section of Ecuadorian Studies, FLACSO Ecuador, Quito, July 17-19

Invited Talk. “Islands of Hope in a Sea of Palms: Afro-Ecuadorian, Awá, and Chachi Peoples Challenge Global Climate Change Mitigation in the Chocó Rainforest.” Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, February 27 

2007

Invited Talk. “African Oil Palm Plantation Expansion and Geographies of Hope in the Ecuadorian Chocó Region.” Yale’s International Society of Tropical Forester’s Conference. Potential Impacts of Bioenergy and Avoided Deforestation, New Haven, Connecticut, March 28-29

2004

Invited Talk. “The Socio-ecological Consequences of Market Integration among the Chachis of Esmeraldas, Ecuador.”  Tropilunch, University of Florida, April 2004