Montserrat Perez Castro Perez

PhD Student

Montse Pérez Castro is a PhD candidate studying the politics of value, knowledge and labor in corporate sustainability. She is interested in how environmental concerns in agro-industrial supply chains interact with nature-society relationships; more specifically, how these concerns and expectations are reshaping value(s) and labor.  For her dissertation, she ethnographically examines sustainable sourcing in the palm oil supply chain in Mexico. 

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Contact

009 Fairchild
HB Hinman Box 6017

Selected Publications

  • Pérez Castro, Montserrat. In press. "Hambre(s) y comer fuera como universitario en Santa Fe, Ciudad de México" in Comer Fuera en América Latina, edited by Tiana Bakic Hayden and Paloma Villagómez Ornelas. Ciudad de México: CEDUA, Colegio de México.

    Pérez Castro, Montserrat. 2023. "Plantationocene "On the Ground"." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, January 24. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/plantationocene-on-the-ground

    2019 Pérez Castro Montserrat, & Robert Bates Graber. Two analyses of Richard Currier's Unbound: how eight technologies made us human and brought our world to the brink. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2:1.