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Jac­obo Ramirez

Associate Professor

Subjects
Business development Energy Green transition Social responsibility Latin America

Primary research areas

Social Justice & Sustainable Futures

Explores how sustainability transitions intersect with equity, dignity, and recognition, highlighting struggles for inclusion and fairness in shaping low-carbon futures.

Indigenous Rights & Decolonial Futures

Studies Indigenous resistance and world-making in renewable energy projects, emphasizing body-territory, place attachment, decolonial feminism, and intercultural governance, grounded in political ontology and the pluriverse.

Business, Human Rights & Responsibility

Examines corporate accountability and stakeholder engagement in fragile contexts, focusing on the role of business in advancing human rights and sustainability.

Organisations, Risk & Resilience.

Explores strategies and HRM in insecure environments, showing how organisations adapt, build resilience, and manage relations with communities under uncertainty.

Learning from plural worlds for just futures

My research explores how energy transitions can be just, inclusive, and sustainable in fragile and contested contexts. I investigate what social justice means in the pluriverse, where many worlds coexist, and how businesses can respect human rights while navigating uncertainty. I study how Indigenous struggles reshape global sustainability, and how legitimacy and trust are negotiated in contested energy projects. This includes examining how organizations adapt and build resilience in contexts of insecurity and limited statehood. Drawing on political ontology and decolonial thought, I analyze how energy governance can respect body-territory, place attachment, and ontological struggles. My vision is to advance research that bridges business, society, and Indigenous knowledge to foster more equitable, plural, and sustainable futures. 

Recent research projects

Contested Offshore Futures

Examines sociotechnical imaginaries of offshore wind and green hydrogen in Brazil and Denmark, focusing on legitimacy, justice, and plural futures.

Energy Justice in La Guajira

Studies Indigenous resistance and legitimacy struggles in Colombian wind energy projects, highlighting Wayúu women’s testimonios and political ontology.