Carlos’ geographical work is grounded in critical political ecology, pluriversal epistemologies, participatory cartography, and decolonial and Latin American studies.
His research focuses on how diverse forms of knowledge, not always recognised as scientific, traditional, or Indigenous, can enter into dialogue within contexts of socio-environmental transformation, especially in regions marked by epistemic and territorial inequality. He is particularly interested in the critical analysis of discourses on nature and in knowledge production processes within universities, institutions, and territories.
Currently, Carlos is a postdoctoral researcher in the BeChange project (University of Hamburg / GERICS) and enjoys engaging with students and colleagues through seminars, workshops, and spaces of collective learning. Where, using participatory, narrative, and visual methods, he collaborates with rural communities in the Brazilian Amazon and in agricultural regions of the Global North to co-develop tools and strategies for imagining desirable, situated climate futures.
~ Critical and Pluriversal Political ecology ~ Discourse analysis ~ Local climate perspectives
Extracted from my own doctoral thesis: Mind map on the implications of academic power relations in the topics of interest during my research.
since 2025
Research associate at the ClimateBridge cluster at the Helmholtz Institute for Climate Service Science (HICSS), a collaboration between GERICS (Climate Service Center Germany) and the University of Hamburg
since 2019
Research associate at the Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg.
2017
MSc in Environmental Resources Management and Development (ENREM) | TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences, Germany
MSc in Environmental Sciences | Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico
2013
Law Degree | Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México
Awards
2016
Awarded with the scholarship of the Center for Natural Resources and Development CNRD (DAAD).
2015
Awarded with the scholarship of the National Commission of Science and Technology, CONACYT.
Extracted from my own doctoral thesis: Drawing made during my field trip (Pará, Brazil), representing my thoughts and feelings during the research.
Coming sooner or later
Lüdemann, Jana; Neuburger, Martina; Lange, Jorid; Monama, Emma; Singer, Katrin; Schmitt, Tobias; Schmidt, Katharina; Tello, Carlos; Hartmann, Max & AG KGGU (forthcoming): Dekoloniale Geographien lehren und lernen? Revisited: Trial-and-Error Nr. 2. - In: Bading, Cornelia & Panenka, Petra (Eds.): Universität – Macht – Wissen: Postkoloniale, feministische und partizipative Perspektiven im Kontext akademischer Lehre. Heidelberg: Springer Spektrum.
2025
Tello, Carlos (2025): C/artografías Pluriversales del Rio. Una metodología para las cuencas. Escuela de Pluriversos, Universidad del BioBio, Concepción Chile. Download PDF.
Tello, Carlos; Schröder, Lea S. and Neuburger, Martina (2025): Rural producers’ discourses on the Brazilian Agricultural Frontier: between local and external narratives on land and forest. - In: DIE ERDE · Vol. 156 · x/2025. Link to publication.
2024
Tello, Carlos (2024): Multi-epistemic and pluriversal hybrid contexts: Actors’ narratives and discourses about the Brazilian Amazon Land and Forest. Hamburg University. Link to publication. Supervised by: Martina Neuburger
2023
Tello, Carlos and Neuburger, Martina (2023): Pluriverse in science: Discourses of Amazonian land-use change and socio-environmental (in)justice. - In: Erdkunde Vol.77 N° 4, pp. 263-285. Link to publication.
2019
Arbeitsgruppe Kritische Geographien Globaler Ungleichheiten (AG KGGU) (2019): Die Ausstellung „geografisch post/kolonial: wie aus Karten und Bildern Welt entsteht“ als Hausaufgabe. - In: Feministisches Geo-RundMail N°80, pp. 98–101. Download PDF.
ClimateBridge Cluster Maria Manez (Co-PI); Vladimir Metelitsa (Co-PI); Carlos Tello (Co-PI); Martina Neuburger (Co-PI) & Uwe Schneider (Co-PI) Time Period: 2025-laufend Helmholtz Institute for Climate Service Science (HICSS) More information
CLICCS C2 – Climate, Climate Change and Society – Projekt C2: Szenarien für nachhaltige Landnutzung: Böden, Biodiversität, Wasser, Nahrungsmittel- und Energiesicherheit (Project C2: Scenarios for Sustainable Land Use: Soils, Biodiversity, Water, Food and Energy Security) Annette Eschenbach; Michael Köhl; Martina Neuburger; Uwe Schneider & Carlos Tello Time Period: 2019-2025 Excellence Cluster of the DFG (German Research Foundation) More information
2024
Between local and global discourses: Rural producers’ narratives on the agricultural frontier. POLLEN2024: Political Ecology Conference. Lund, Sweden (Oral Presentation)
Challenging the Dominant Discourses: A Study of Farmer Perspectives in the Brazilian Amazon. Groningen – Hamburg Buildforth workshops. Groningen, NL; Hamburg, De (Oral Presentation)
2023
Historical Background, Present and Potential Futures of Amazon‘s Agricultural Frontier. Lea Schröder, Vladimir Metelitsa, and Carlos Tello, Hamburg University. Ringvorlesung zur Klimakrise: Another World Is Still Possible! (Oral Presentation)
2022
Production and reproduction of discourses on land in the Brazilian Amazon: science, traditional and digital media. AK Lateinamerika: Perspektiven der geographischen Lateinamerikaforschung. Karlsruhe, Germany. (Oral presentation)
Antecedentes históricos, percepción e identificación de los actores de la tierra en la Amazonía Brasileña: Análisis multidimensional y pluriversal. 9ª Conferencia Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Ciencias Sociales, Mexico City, Mexico (Oral presentation)
2025-2026
Excursion to Mexico. Socio-ecological Transformation and Resistance in Contemporary Mexico: A Critical Political-Ecological Perspective, Department of Geography, University of Hamburg
2023
Collaboration in the Modul Forschendes Lernen im MSc Geographie, Department of Geography, University of Hamburg
2022
Collaboration in the Modul Forschendes Lernen im MSc Geographie, Department of Geography, University of Hamburg
2021
Collaboration in the Modul Forschendes Lernen im MSc Geographie, Department of Geography, University of Hamburg
De- and Post-colonial Geographies, Department of Geography, University of Hamburg
2020
Land Tenure and Land Management in Latin America, Department of Geography, University of Hamburg
2014-2015
Seminar on Public Management in Local Governments at the School of Management and Public Administration, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico
