María

Mancilla García

PhD

Researcher

+46 8-16 4920

Profile summary

  • Process-relational perspectives
  • Social-ecological conflicts
  • Citizen participation
  • Water governance
  • Coastal management
  • Network analysis
  • Arts-based methods

Maria Mancilla García’s research focuses on relationality in social-ecological systems, including network analysis and theoretical work on the interplay between conflict and collaboration

Mancilla García is currently working on three research projects. Within the project FORCE, Maria analyses the obstacles to implementation of existing management measures in the Swedish Baltic Sea, and through co-production methods and interviews, she investigates possible ways to move forward.

She also participates in the project TRANSMOD on the role of crises and attractors in the unfolding of transformations. Within TRANSMOD, Maria specifically focuses on process-relational perspectives and how to apply them to develop methods for empirical investigation across cases.

Finally, Maria also leads a team of six people within her project STORMY WATERS which seeks to disentangle the conflict between seal and cormorant conservation and fisheries in Sweden. This project is a collaboration with colleagues at SLU and SU DEEP and also seeks to understand the effect of conflicts on ecosystems. It employs a combination of methods, including network analysis, document analysis and co-production exercises to develop a nuanced understanding of conflict, composed of multiple layers.

Mancilla García holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Oxford. She also obtained a Master of Research from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France) and, a Bachelor and Master degree from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (Sciences-Po Paris). During her studies in Paris, she also followed philosophy courses at the University of Paris 1, La Sorbonne. She has worked on polycentric water governance arrangements in Latin America (Bolivia, Peru and Brazil) and Africa (Burkina Faso) and on coastal governance in Africa (Mozambique and Kenya) and Europe (Spain and Sweden). She first joined the SRC in 2015 with a Marie Curie Post-doctoral scholarship to work with Örjan Bodin on a network analysis of participation dynamics in water basin councils. She then joined and led a diversity of projects focusing on process and relational perspectives.

Publications by Mancilla García, Maria