Name: David Barkin
Nationality: Mexican
Title: Doctor
Position: Distinguished Professor
Organization: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco Campus
Brief profile:
David Barkin holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University and is Distinguished Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco Campus in Mexico City. He collaborated in the founding of the Ecodevelopment Center in 1974. He received the National Prize for Political Economy in 1979. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and is an Emeritus member of the National Research Council. He collaborates with indigenous and peasant communities to promote the sustainable management of regional resources. Many of these communities are engaged in activities to develop new institutions, advancing towards the construction of post-capitalist societies by fostering new forms of coexistence and alternatives to development to move towards a world of ‘good living’. He is recognized for his theory of Radical Ecological Economics, developed during the past 15 years. In 2016, he received an award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). His latest books are: ‘From Protest to Proposal: 50 years imagining and building the future‘ (Siglo XXI, 2018) and ‘The Environmental Tragedy in Latin America and the Caribbean‘ (ECLAC, 2020, with 20 Latin American colleagues).
Articles:
David Barkin - Collective Revolutionary Actor (535.6 KB)
2018-06-11
Author: David Barkin.
David Barkin_The Collective Revolutionary Subject (88.8 KB)
2018-05-23
Author: David Barkin.
David Barkin - Lemus Food Sovereignty (51.9 KB)
2017-09-29
Author: David Barkin.
David Barkin - Earthquake in Mexico (15.4 KB)
2017-09-29
Author: David Barkin.
David Barkin - Environmental Governance in Latin America (2.2 MB)
2016-11-07
Author: David Barkin.
David Barkin - OvercomingPoverty (564.5 KB)
2016-11-07
Author: David Barkin.
Environmental-Governance-in-Latin-America (2.2 MB)
2016-11-07