Dr. Ana Maria Peredo is a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. Ana María joined the School of Environmental Studies in July 2016, prior to which she was a member of the Gustavson School of Business (2000-2016) and Director of the Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy (2008-2014) at UVic. Her research focuses on the role of business in society, specifically poverty alleviation and business emerging from civil society. As an anthropologist, she has worked for UN and European development agencies involved in rural development projects with the Quechua and Aymara peoples, where a principal responsibility was micro-credit and income generation for Andean indigenous women.
Research Interests: Business in society, Poverty alleviation, Social Entrepreneurship, Community Enterprise/Co-operatives, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, International and Local Sustainable Development, and Qualitative methods
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Economic Policy and Financial Issues Indigenous Politics International Relations and Foreign Policy Social Policy, Welfare and Labour Market |
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| Email: | aperedo@uvic.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Peredo, A. M., McLean, M., & Tremblay, C. (2019). Indigenous Social Innovation: What Is Distinctive? And a Research Agenda. In G. George, T. Baker, P. Tracey, & H. Joshi (Eds.), Handbook of Inclusive Innovation: The Role of Organizations, Markets and Communities in Social Innovation (pp. 107-128). Cheltenham, UK; Massachusetts, USA: Edward Elgar. Peredo, A. M. (2018). Business, Sustainability, and the Bottom of the Pyramid. In J. Cardonna (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of the History of Sustainability (pp. 375-386). Abingdon; New York: Routledge. Peredo, A. M. (2018). El ‘Buen Vivir’: Notions of Wellbeing among Indigenous Peoples of South America. In C. Fleming, M. Manning, & A. Miller (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing . London: Routledge. Peredo, A. M., & McLean, M. (2019). Decommodification in action: Common property as countermovement. Organization. doi:doi.org/10.1177/1350508419867202 [Titel anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen] Córdoba, D., Juen, L., Selfa, T., Peredo, A. M., de Assis Montag, L. F., Sombra, D., & Santos, M. P. D. (2019). Understanding local perceptions of the impacts of large-scale oil palm plantations on ecosystem services in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest Policy and Economics, 109. Rowe, J., Peredo, A. M., Sullivan, M., & Restakis, J. (2018). Policy supports for co-operative development: Learning from co-operative hot spots. Journal of Co-operative Studies, 51(1), 39-42. |
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