Mary Ann Manahan
Mary Ann is a Filipina feminist activist researcher based in Ghent, Belgium. Animated and inspired by decolonial feminism, her PhD project looks at the intersections of indigenous peoples’ struggles for self-determination, forest conservation and development. Prior to her academic stint, she has 17 years of professional experience working with an activist think tank and advocacy NGO, grant-making organization, and social movements advocating for redistribution, ecological, gender and social justice, and alternatives to development. Mary Ann received her Undergraduate degree in sociology from the University of the Philippines-Diliman and her master's degree in Globalization and Development at the Institute of Development Policy and Management at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She sees her PhD and teaching journey as a politics of self-care that allows her to continue her political work and activism.
Obituary: In Honor of Datu Makapukaw
Mary-Ann Manahan wrote a tribute in memory of her research collaborator Datu Makapukaw who tragically passed away.
New Publication: The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions
This upcoming book, co-edited by CRG's Mary Ann Manahan, provides a platform for the voices that have been conspicuously absent in debates around energy and climate in the Global North.
New Roundtable presentation: Climate Justice: A Report from the Global South
This roundtable at the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington discusses how the climate justice movement in the Global South is responding to new “Green colonialism”?
New Publication: What water will the UN Conference carry forward: a fundamental human right or a commodity?
In March, 2023, the first UN Global Conference on water in 46 years attracted 7000 people in New York (NY, USA). However, long-standing rifts over how to best manage access to water and govern water resources were revived, revealing a confrontation of different political and economic views.
Lalaw ha mga buntod (sacred mountains)
Navigating autonomy and forest conservation in two Philippine contested frontiers
Book project: Beyond Green Colonialism: Global Justice and the Geopolitics of Ecosocial Transitions
This book project consciously moves away from the ubiquitous just transition rhetoric, seeking to strengthen more meaningful concepts like green colonialism, global justice, and ecosocial transformation in the debate about Green New Deals and pathways out of the planetary polycrisis.
Current research projects:
Lalaw ha mga buntod (sacred mountains)
Navigating autonomy and forest conservation in two Philippine contested frontiers
Book project: Beyond Green Colonialism: Global Justice and the Geopolitics of Ecosocial Transitions
This book project consciously moves away from the ubiquitous just transition rhetoric, seeking to strengthen more meaningful concepts like green colonialism, global justice, and ecosocial transformation in the debate about Green New Deals and pathways out of the planetary polycrisis.