Joel E. Correia is a critical human-environment geographer and Assistant Professor at Colorado State University. Correia’s research centers on the political ecologies of conservation and development, climate and environmental justice, and land politics with a particular focus on Indigenous rights in South America’s Gran Chaco and Amazon Forests. At CSU, he is co-director of the Just Social-Ecological Transformations in Latin America program. His first book Disrupting the Patrón: Indigenous land rights and the fight for environmental justice in Paraguay’s Chaco is available open access with University of California Press (2023). Correia has also published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Geoforum, Climate and Development, People and Nature, Conservation Biology, and the Journal of Peasant Studies, among others. He is also a founding editor for the book series “Critical Geographies of Latin America and the Caribbean” with University of Florida Press.