Dr Olivia Arigho-Stiles

Academic position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Indigenous Ecologies and Environmental Crisis

Department: Institute of Advanced Studies

Biography:

Olivia Arigho-Stiles is an interdisciplinary researcher of Indigenous histories and the rural world in Bolivia. She completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Essex in July 2022. She holds a BA in History from the University of Oxford and an MA in Latin American Studies from UCL. Her doctoral project addresses the question as to why and how discourses on the other-than-human become so important for Indigenous movements across the Bolivian highlands in the twentieth century. Her work engages with decolonial theory, environmental history and the Anthropocene in historical perspective. She is currently working on developing her thesis into a monograph exploring the nexus between Indigenous and environmental politics in Bolivia in the twentieth century.

Research Projects:

Olivia Arigho-Stiles (2022) Pachamama Oral History Project. Created by Anahi Naranjo. 2019, The Oral History Review, DOI: 10.1080/00940798.2022.2040291
Olivia Arigho-Stiles (2021) New Futures of Ecological Struggle in Bolivia, NACLA Report on the Americas, 53:3, 288-295, DOI: 10.1080/10714839.2021.1961504

Dr Olivia Arigho-Stiles is an IAS /UCL Anthropocene Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Indigenous Ecologies and Environmental Crisis, alongside Dr Adriana Suárez Delucchi