Cécile Faliès

Cécile Faliès is an associate professor in geography at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, affiliated with UMR PRODIG. For the past 20 years, she has been interested in changes in land use on the outskirts of major Chilean cities, caused by the development of export agriculture (avocados, wine, citrus) and urban growth, as well as their environmental consequences.

Using a social and political geography approach and based on in-depth fieldwork, she has shown how agricultural and natural areas are reconfigured in this process. On these metropolitan outskirts, she analyses the mechanics of power in terms of access to quality food for urban dwellers and the preservation of wooded areas affected by major fires (Valparaíso 2014, Concepción 2017 and 2023).

Since the estallido social of 2019, she has been co-directing COINCIDE, an interdisciplinary research programme (geography, law, sociology) that analyses how environmental and territorial issues are being integrated into the constituent and legislative process currently underway.