Jorge Vega

Jorge Vega is a doctoral researcher in European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, affiliated with the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-
Environment Systems (IRI THESys). His research focuses on the social impacts of extractive industries and the emergence of environmental movements in Latin America,
combining archival research, multimodal ethnography, and arts-based methods. Trained in biology and political philosophy, he holds an MSc in Biological Sciences from the
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is a former Predoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Vega has worked closely with
environmental and social movements and has taught courses on political ecology, decolonial theory, and the philosophy and ethics of science at UNAM and Humboldt
University. His creative practice as a writer and visual artist runs in parallel with his academic work, addressing questions of displacement, social struggle, and memory. In
2019, he co-founded the [decoco] decolonial research group in Berlin, a collective that brings together critical scholarship and artistic experimentation to engage with the cultural
and epistemic dimensions of environmental crises. A published writer, he was awarded an essay fellowship from the Foundation for Mexican Letters.

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Jorge Vega
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