Laura Botero

Laura Botero Arellano holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida and a B.A. in Psychology from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. She is currently a doctoral student in Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include Indigenous geographies, feminist political ecology, extractive frontiers, and ethnography. She conducts ethnographic research in the Venezuelan-Colombian Amazon border in collaboration with Uwottüja Indigenous communities in the Orinoco River basin. Her work examines how extractive frontiers take hold in Indigenous territories by tracing how bodies, territories, and social relations are materially and relationally reconfigured, foregrounding the embodied conditions that make extraction possible.