Laura C Zanotti

Professor and Director, School of Environment and Sustainability
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Anthropology

Collaborator + mentor + researcher. Zanotti is the Professor and Director of the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEaS). Zanotti has more than two decades of experience as an interdisciplinary social scientist who partners with Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Peoples, and Local Communities to cultivate sustainable livelihoods and well-being. Specializations include: collaborative, transdisciplinary projects and creating mixed methods ethnographic teams. Dedicated to opening and transforming the academy and providing undergraduate and graduate students generative experiences to thrive in the multicultural and interconnected world in which they live, play, and work. Pronouns: she/her/hers. We would love for you to join our community, earn a degree in SEaS, or simply stop by. Find out more here.

Google Scholar Profile
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2712-4284

PhD: University of Washington Seattle, WA, (Anthropology)

MA: University of Washington Seattle, WA, (Anthropology)

BA: Colgate University Hamilton, NY, (Anthropology, English/Creative Writing)

Peer Reviewed Publications

Marion Suiseeya, K, Zanotti, L.*, and K. Haapala (2022. ) Navigating the Spaces between Human Rights and Justice: Cultivating Indigenous Representation in Global Environmental Governance.Journal of Peasant Studies, , 49(3) ,604–628. More Information

Popovici, R., Moraes, A., Ma, Z., Zanotti, L., Cherkauer, K., Erwin, A., Mazer, K., Bocardo Delgado, E., Pinto Cáceres, J., Ranjan, P. and Prokopy, L. (2021. ) How do Indigenous and local knowledge systems respond to climate change?.Ecology and Society, , 26(3). , More Information

Zanotti, L., and Marion-Suiseeya, K. (2020. ) Doing Feminist Collaborative Event Ethnography .Journal of Political Ecology, , 27 (1 ) ,961-987.

Erwin, A., Ma, Z., Popovici, R., O'Brien, E.P.S., Zanotti, L., Zeballos, E.Z., Bauchet, J., Calderón, N.R. and Larrea, G.R.A. (2020. ) Intersectionality shapes adaptation to social-ecological change .World Development, , 138 ,105282.

Zanotti, L., Soares da Silveira, D., and Harris, K. (2020. ) Media Sovereignty and Digital Activism: Transdisciplinary Service-learning with Indigenous Peoples in the Brazilian Amazon .Teaching Anthropology, , 9 (2 ) ,78-91.

Zanotti, L., Ma, Z., Johnson, J. L., Johnson, D. R., Yu, D., Burnham, M., and C. Carothers (2020. ) Sustainability, resilience, adaptation, and transformation: tensions and plural approaches .Ecology and Society, , 25 (3 ) ,4.

Zanotti, L., and N. Knowles (2020. ) Large intact forest landscapes and inclusive conservation: A political ecological perspective. Journal of Political Ecology, , 27 (1 ) ,43-66.

Published Books

Zanotti, Laura (2016. ) Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon: The Kayapó’s Fight for Just Livelihoods .Tucson , University of Arizona Press.

Dawson, Allan Charles, Laura Zanotti, and Ismael Vaccaro, eds (2014. ) Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues between State and Tradition .New York , Routledge.

Book Chapter

Marion Suiseeya, K. R., and L. Zanotti (2023 ) From Method to Methodology at Plural Sites of Agreement- Making Conducting Research on Global Environmental Agreement-Making .(pp. 186).Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Zanotti, L. (2018 ) Water Sovereignty: Kayapó Struggles for a Good Life in Brazil From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation .(pp. 343-360).London, Springer

Ramón Parra, I., Zanotti, L., and D. Soares (2018 ) Making Media: Gendered and Generational Shifts in Kayapó Digital Worlds From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans .(pp. 106-128).Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press

Johnson, J., Zanotti, L., Ma, Z., Yu, D., Johnson D. R., Kirkham, A., and C. Carothers (2018 ) Interplays of Sustainability, Resilience, Adaptation, and Transformation Handbook of Sustainability and Social Science Research World Sustainability Series .(pp. 3-25).London, Springer

Sustainability + Feminist Political Ecology, Media + Environment, Indigenous Rights, Global Environmental Governance, Environmental Justice, Visual and Sensory Methodologies, Collaborative Research and Praxis, Climate Change, Critical Data Studies

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