Laura Mendoza Mendoza Sandoval

Ph.D candidate in Sociology and Political Science, trained anthropologist and critical urban scholar, my current research focuses on the politicization of food practices (from pre-production to post-consumption) embedded in planetary urbanization processes. By comprehending multiple ways of appropriation and creation of alternative food systems through collective action. I have a particular interest in the agroecology movements from a feminist and decolonial perspective, incorporating both ethnographic perspectives and multi-level multi-stakeholder analysis. I've been researching the discursive and framing work in the agroecology movement area in Europe, so as the production and dissemination of knowledge, affections, imaginaries, practices and techniques involving multiple actors and spaces in and between Global South and North.

• International scholar with living experiences in several cultural contexts across the Global South and North (Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Italy)
• Active member of international platform for social movements learning in Europe
• Creator of independent podcast
• Member of interdisciplinary, international and transcultural working-teams (Germany)
• Multi-lingual
• Organizer of international events in the World Urban Forum VII, 2014
• Academic and non-academic publications

• Mendoza Sandoval, Laura. (Forthcoming 2024). “Controversies in the moral economies in the agroecology movement in Andalusia. Insights from an ethnographic research”. Conference paper. Decolonizing the Solidarity Economy and Commons: Enacting the Pluriverse 8th - 10 Nov 2023. Istituto Universitario de Lisbo ISCTE.
• Mendoza Sandoval, Laura & Wathne, Sophia. (2022). “Food Sovereignty Movements”. In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements.
• Mendoza Sandoval, Laura (2019). “Appropriating food metabolism in Bucaramanga. Urban Based Food Initiatives and the germination of a food movement?” Supervised by Dieterle, J., Kropp, C., & Micarelli, G. Master of Science dissertation, University of Stuttgart
• Mendoza Sandoval, Laura; Pardo, Carlosfelipe; Erlhöfer, J & García, A. 2014. “Boletín de Iluminación Urbana en Bogotá”. Bogotá, Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá.
• Mendoza Sandoval, Laura. 2014. “Ritmos Urbanos. Los centros del centro ampliado y la espacialización de capitales en Bogotá”. Director: Héctor García Botero. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, tesis de pregrado para optar por el título de antropóloga.
• Mendoza Sandoval, Laura & Triviño, Sandy. 2013 “Lo que se encuentra detrás de las cifras: Bicitaxis, Bogotá y condición material” en el proyecto: Censo de la población que trabaja prestando el servicio Informal de transporte a la comunidad como “bicitaxista” y el inventario de cada uno de los vehículos que operan (bicitaxi) en la ciudad de Bogotá D.C. Bogotá, Universidad Nacional de Colombia & Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad.

• Donatella della Porta,

Scuola Normale Superiore – COSMOS Institute

Founding Dean

donatella.dellaporta@sns.it

Carlosfelipe Pardo

NGO Despacio & SabidurAI

Founder/consultant

pardo@despacio.org

• Manuela Zechner

Common Ecologies Network

Founding member

manuela.zw@googlemail.com

• Don Slater

Configuring Light

London School of Economics

Associate Professor (Reader) of Sociology

d.slater@lse.ac.uk

• Astrid Ley

Chair of Department International Urbanism Development

Integrated Urbanism & Sustainable Design (IUSD) – Unviersität Stuttgart

astrid.ley@si.uni-stuttgart.de