Combining Latin American political ecology with Marxist ecological critique, Regionalismo ensamblado (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2025) explores the literary and discursive production of regionalism during the Great Depression (1930–1940) as an early form of socioecological knowledge and political ecology. The book examines how Latin American intellectuals developed ways of writing and thinking about the metabolic rift and the social and cultural impact of nature’s colonization, advancing a natural history of the Capitalocene. Open Access book here (in Spanish).

“Selgas’s proposal represents a different way of reading and understanding the relationship between textual production and its environment, where neither field should nor can be translated into the other because they are constitutive parts of the same assemblage. We find ourselves—thankfully—far removed from the allegorical exercises of criticism that offered and left us with a stale version of regionalism, whose generative depths Gianfranco Selgas probes and reclaims with enviable analytical imagination. Regionalismo ensamblado makes an important contribution to the discussion of this indispensable category.”

Carlos J. Alonso, “Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Humanities,” Columbia University (prólogo de Regionalismo ensamblado)

Recognition

• 2025: Recognition with diploma, 3rd edition of the Professor Andrzej Dembicz Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis on Latin America and the Caribbean organized by the European Council for Social Research in Latin America (CEISAL)