Iván Dario Vargas Roncancio

Iván is an Assistant Professor in the Law & Society program, Department of Social Sciences at York University. He holds a Ph.D in Natural Resource Sciences from McGill University, a B. Laws, and LL.M in Law and Bioscience from the National University of Colombia. He acted as Associate Director for the Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA) and held a post-doctoral position with the Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) program at McGill (2021 – 2023). He is co-PI for the intercultural research project: “A Community Path to Higher Education: The Biocultural Indigenous University of the Inga People of Colombia” (Spencer Foundation, Research-Practice Partnership Grant Program, 2022-2025). His research focuses on Earth law and the rights of nature; Indigenous legal cosmologies in Amazonia; anthropology of plant- human relations, and critical pedagogies. Latest work: Posthuman Legalities: New Materialism and Law Beyond the Human (co-editor), Cheltenham: Elgar, 2021; Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon: The Lawness of Life. NY: Routledge (Law, Justice, and Ecology book series), 2024; and Pedagogies for the Ecozoic (co-author), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.