Maria Jose Zapata Campos

SENIOR LECTURER

Department of Business

Administration

Telephone

+46 31-786 15 55

+46 766-18 15 55

Mail

mj.zapata@handels.gu.se

Visiting address

Viktoriagatan 13, plan 3

41125 Göteborg

Postal address

Box 603

40530 Göteborg

RESEARCHER

Gothenburg Research

Institute

Mail

mj.zapata@handels.gu.se

Visiting address

Viktoriagatan 13, plan 3

41125 Göteborg

Postal address

Box 603

40530 Göteborg

About Maria Jose Zapata Campos

Research areas

Public-private collaboration,
Organizing sustainability
Organizing environmental sustainability in cities,

Teaching areas

Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

Publications

Inclusive recycling movements: a green deep democracy from
below

María José Zapata Campos, Sebastían Carenzo, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael Oloko, Jessica Pérez Reynosa, Patrik Zapata
Environment & Urbanization - 2020-01-01
Urban commoning practices in the repair movement: Frontstaging the
backstage

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata, Maria Isabel Ordonez
Environment and planning A - 2020-01-01
Waste pickers resistance and the urban commons. Stories from the resilient community of La
Chureca

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
European Sociology Association Conference, 20-23th August 2019 Manchester - 2019-01-01
Fearless city suburbs: collaboration, distance work, and the shaping of the local integration policy
field

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
European Sociology Conference 20-23th August 2019, Manchester - 2019-01-01
Recycling networks movement. A green deep democracy or the politics of
garbage

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
European Group for Organisation Studies 35th Colloquium, EGOS, Edinburgh 4-7th July - 2019-01-01
Community Currencies as Means of Local Economic
Empowerment

Ester Barinaga, Michael Oloko, Will Ruddick, María José Zapata Campos
- 2019-01-01
Organising grassroots initiatives for a more inclusive governance: constructing the city from
below

María José Zapata Campos, Ester Barinaga, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael Oloko, Patrik Zapata
- 2019-01-01
Cities, institutional entrepreneurship and the emergence of new environmental policies: The organizing of waste prevention in the City of Gothenburg,
Sweden

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space - 2019-01-01
Transformative collaboration: knocking down taboos, challenging normative
associations

María José Zapata Campos, C. M. Hall
Journal of Policy Research in Tourism Leisure and Events - 2019-01-01
"Infiltrating urban commoning practices in city policy-making, experiences from Managua and
Göteborg”

María José Zapata Campos
Paper presented at BISCOTE International Workshop" “Urban Commons and Territorial Development” - 2018-01-01
Grassroots resilience tackling climate, environmental and poverty
challenges

Patrik Zapata, Jutta Gutberlet, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael Oloko, Goodluck Charles, Sebastian Carenzo, Jessica Pérez, María José Zapata Campos
Latin American European Organisation Studies Conference, Buenos Aires, 22-24th March 2018. - 2018-01-01
Inclusive Waste governance and Grassroots Innovations for Social, Environmental and Economic Change. REPORT ON FIRST RESEARCH OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECT RECYCLING NETWORKS & WASTE
GOVERNANCE

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata, Adalberto de Azevedo, Sebastian Carenzo, Goodluck Charles, Jutta Gutberlet, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Oloko Michael, Jessica Pérez Reynosa
- 2018-01-01
Governing grassroots infrastructure – Resident associations and infrastructure provisioning in informal
settlements

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael Oloko, Ester Barinaga
www.laemos2018.net - 2018-01-01
Avfallsförebyggande handlar om effektiv produktion och genomtänkt konsumtion – inte om avfall. Sju lärdomar från forskningsprojektet från avfallshantering till
avfallsförebyggande

Hervé Corvellec, Richard Ek, Nils Johansson, Anette Svingstedt, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
- 2018-01-01
Can MNCs promote more inclusive tourism? Apollo tour operator's sustainability
work

María José Zapata Campos, C. M. Hall, Sandra Backlund
Tourism Geographies - 2018-01-01
COLLECTIVE STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE IN COMPACT GLOBAL SOUTH CITIES. STORIES FROM THE RESIDENTS OF THE VILLA RODRIGO
BUENO

Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael Oloko, Jenny Stenberg, María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
19th N-AERUS Conference, HOUSING AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS IN A WORLD OF CHANGE, Stuttgart, Germany - 2018-01-01
Recycling networks. Grassroots initiatives tackling climate, environmental and poverty challenges in informal
settlements

Charles Goodluck, Jutta Gutberlet, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael Oloko, Jessica Pérez Reynosa, María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Devres 2018, Development Research Conference 2018 – ‘Rethinking Development’ - 2018-01-01
Citizen-driven strategies in global South cities’ informal settlements. Critical narratives from Buenos Aires, Havana and
Kisumu

María José Zapata Campos, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael Oloko, Jenny Stenberg, Patrik Zapata
Devres 2018, Development Research Conference 2018 - 2018-01-01
From governing at distance, to governing on distances. Drawing immigrants closer to the labour
market.

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
19th Nordic Migration Research Conference, New (Im)mobilities: Migration and Race in the Era of Authoritarianism, 15-17 August 2018, Norrköping - 2018-01-01
Cities and the new local integration governance: stories about something new, something borrowed and something old in
Göteborg

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata, Daniela Ölmunger
A World of Flows: Labour Mobility, Capital and Knowledge in an Age of Global Reversal and Regional Revival RSA Annual Conference 2018, Lugano, Switzerland - 2018-01-01
Acting on distances: A topology of accounting
inscriptions

Hervé Corvellec, Richard Ek, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
Accounting, Organizations and Society - 2018-01-01
Waste tours. Narratives, infrastructures and gazes in
interplay

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa - 2018-01-01
Organising civil society for building inclusive
cities

María José Zapata Campos, Ester Barinaga
Företagsekonomiska ämneskonferensen, 18-19 oktober, Malmö Högskola - 2017-01-01
IOR collaboration, municipalities and labour integration - �The case of One Stop Future
Shop

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
International Conference on Immigration and Labour Market Integration November 13–15, 2017, Gothenburg - 2017-01-01
Infiltrating commoning practices in local environmental
governance

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development -- Rethinking Global Urban Justice September 11-13 2017 | Leeds - 2017-01-01
Creating new institutions for sustainable transitions�. The history of the upcycling station in
Sweden

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
13th Conference of the European Sociology Association, Athens 29.08.2017 – 01.09.2017 - 2017-01-01
Urban informality and networks of livelihood and solidarity in compact
cities

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata Johansson, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Jenny Stenberg
International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development -- Rethinking Global Urban Justice September 11-13 2017 | Leeds - 2017-01-01
Repair Movements’ Commoning Practices. The Case of the Bike-Kitchen in
Sweden.

María José Zapata Campos, Maria Isabel Ordonez, Patrik Zapata
Opening the Bin – Helsingborg, Sweden, April 27 – 29, 2017 - 2017-01-01
Co-production of Services in Informal Settlements: Waste management in Kisumu,
Kenya

Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael Oloko, María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
- 2017-01-01
Infiltrating citizen-driven initiatives for
sustainability

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Environmental Politics - 2017-01-01
Bridging Weak Links of Solid Waste Management in Informal
Settlements

Jutta Gutberlet, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Belinda Nyakinya, Michael Oloko, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
Journal of Environment and Development - 2017-01-01
Translating Policies into Informal Settlements' Critical Services: Reframing, Anchoring and Muddling
Through

Jaan-Henrik Kain, Belinda Nyakinya, Nicholas Odhiambo, Oloko Michael, John Omolo, Silas Otieno, María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Public Administration and Development - 2016-01-01
Networked Social Movements and the Politics of Mortgage: From the Right to Housing to the Assault on
Institutions

Eva Álvarez de Andrés, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
Lessons from the Great Recession: At the Crossroads of Sustainability and Recovery (Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice, Volume 18) - 2016-01-01
Where the skip used to be. Informal settlements, the city, and waste management in Kisumu,
Kenya

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos, Jutta Gutberlet, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael Oloko
Panel 33: Serendipitous infrastructures: Intended and unintended outcomes, Nordic Africa Days 2016, "Gender and change: global challenges for Africa?", Uppsala 23-24 September - 2016-01-01
The power of commoning. Citizen-driven environmental initiatives and social
change

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
32nd EGOS Colloquium, Sub-theme 58: Organizational Practices of Social Movements: The Power of Organizing from Below, July 7–9, 2016, Naples, Italy - 2016-01-01
Waste tours – waste prevention narratives, infrastructures and audience in
interplay

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
6th ETHNOGRAPHY AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH CONFERENCE, Session 15. Ethnographies of waste politicsBergamo (Italy) – June 8-11, 2016. - 2016-01-01
Translating policies into informal settlements’ practices: Reframing, anchoring and muddling
through

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
Cutting Edge Research, Reality Changing Policies. A workshop arranged by ICLD, Visby, SwedenMay 22-24, 2016 - 2016-01-01
Socio-environmental entrepreneurship and the provision of critical services in informal
settlements

Jutta Gutberlet, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Belinda Nyakinya, Dickens Ochieng, Nicholas Odhiambo, Michael Oloko, John Omolo, Elvis Ozondi, Silas Otieno, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
Environment & Urbanization - 2016-01-01
Hide and seek - What enables and hinders households’ battery
recycling?

Ulrika Holmberg, María José Zapata Campos, Helena Åberg
- 2016-01-01
Tre av fyra jobbar med
förebyggande

Hervé Corvellec, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
Avfall och Miljö - 2016-01-01
Unexpected translations in urban policy mobility. The case of the Acahualinca development programme in Managua,
Nicaragua

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Habitat International - 2015-01-01
Stop the evictions! The diffusion of networked social movements and the emergence of a hybrid space: The case of the Spanish Mortgage Victims
Group

Eva Àlvarez de Andrés, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
Habitat International - 2015-01-01
Translating city development projects in informal settlements: reframing, anchoring and muddling
through

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Belinda Nyakinya, Nicholas Odhiambo, Michael Oloko, John Omolo, Silas Otieno
16th NAERUS Conference 20th November 2015, Dortmund, Germany - 2015-01-01
Hide and seek - What enables and hinders households' battery
recycling?

Ulrika Holmberg, María José Zapata Campos, Helena Åberg
Paper presented at 23:rd Nordic Academy of Management Conference (NFF) in Copenhagen, August 12-14. - 2015-01-01
Obunga Clean
Up

Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael M. Oloko, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
- 2015-01-01
From community-based organization to socio-environmental entrepreneur. The case of household waste collection in Kisumu’s informal
settlements

Jutta Gutberlet, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael Oloko, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
5th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy 15–18 July 2015, Lisbon, Portugal - 2015-01-01
Combating poverty and building democracy through the coproduction of participatory waste management services The case of Kisumu City,
Kenya

Jaan-Henrik Kain, Michael O. Oloko, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
- 2015-01-01
Laws and Regulations Governing Waste Management: Institutional Arrangements Regarding Waste
Management

Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, María José Zapata Campos
Taherzadeh, Mohammad & Richards, Tobias (eds.) Resource Recovery to Approach Zero Municipal Waste - 2015-01-01
Challenging the throw-away society-Environmental movements and waste prevention practices in Gothenburg,
Sweden

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
ESA 2015, Prague - 2015-01-01
Cities in the lead of sustainable transitions. The structuration of an emergent field of waste prevention policies in
Sweden

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata, Maria Jylkkä
NESS 2015 - 2015-01-01
Producing, Appropriating, and Recreating the Myth of the Urban
Commons

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
In: Borch,Christian & Kornberger, Martin (eds.) Urban Commons - Rethinking the City - 2015-01-01
Forskningsprojektet Från avfallshantering till avfallsförebyggande - Rapport från seminarium I: Offentliga planer för
avfallsförebyggande

Maria Jylkkä, Hervé Corvellec, Richard Ek, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
- 2014-01-01
Networked social movements – fuelling resistance and change through hybrid public
spaces

María José Zapata Campos, Alvarez de Andres Eva, Patrik Zapata
Laemos 2014, Havanna, Cuba, 2-5 April 2014. - 2014-01-01
Waste socio-technological transitions: from landfilling to waste
prevention

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist
Loschiavo dos Santos, M.C. Walker, S. Lopes Francelino S. (Eds) Design, Waste & Dignity - 2014-01-01
Partnerships, Tourism, and Community
Impacts

María José Zapata Campos
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism - 2014-01-01
Urban waste: closing the
loop

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Pearson, Leonie J. Newton Peter W. and Roberts, P. (Eds) 2014 Resilient Sustainable Cities. A future. Editors: Leonie Pearson, Peter Newton, Peter Roberts - 2014-01-01
Public Administration and Tourism - International and Nordic
Perspectives

María José Zapata Campos, Michael Hall
Offentlig förvaltning. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration - 2014-01-01
The multiplex Chureca. Relational sites and the organizing of socio-spatial
change

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Laemos 2014, Havanna, Cuba, 2-5 April 2014. - 2014-01-01
The travel of global ideas of waste management. The case of Managua and its informal
settlements

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Habitat International - 2014-01-01
The travel of global ideas of waste management The case of Managua and its informal
settlements

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
- 2014-01-01
The function of waste urban infrastructures as heterotopias of the city: Narratives from Gothenburg and
Managua

María José Zapata Campos
Organising waste in the city : international perspectives on narratives and practices / edited by María José Zapata and Michael Hall. - 2013-01-01
Introduction: Narratives of organising waste in the
city

María José Zapata Campos, C. Michael Hall
Organising waste in the city : international perspectives on narratives and practices / edited by María José Zapata and Michael Hall. - 2013-01-01
Conclusions: Framing the organising of waste in the
city

C. Michael Hall, María José Zapata Campos
Organising waste in the city : international perspectives on narratives and practices / edited by María José Zapata and Michael Hall. - 2013-01-01
Translating development aid into city management: the barrio Acahualinca integrated development programme in Managua,
Nicaragua

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Public Administration and Development - 2013-01-01
Extending the realm of accounting inscriptions: Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) solid waste collection invoicing and the moral enrolment of residents in environmental
governance

Hervé Corvellec, María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
AOS conference on “Performing business and social innovation through accounting inscriptions”, Galway, Ireland, 22–24 September 2013 - 2013-01-01
Urban policy mobilities and local translations of compliance and contestation within development-aid regeneration programs. The case of the Acahualinca Integrated Development Programme in Managua,
Nicaragua.

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
Paper presented at the International RC21 Conference 2013 Session: Making up cities: urban policy mobilities, assemblages and urban politics in a global age. 29-31 August 2013. - 2013-01-01
Switching Managua on! Connecting informal settlements to the formal city through household waste
collection

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Environment & Urbanization - 2013-01-01
Stop the evictions! The diffusion of networked social movements and the emergence of a new hybrid public space. The case of the Spanish Mortgage Victims
Group

Eva Álvarez de Andrés, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
14th N-AERUS Conference 2013, Enschede, The Netherlands September 12-14 URBAN FUTURES. Multiple visions, paths and constructions? - 2013-01-01
When visions for better urban futures development are turned into practice. The case of the Acahualinca Development Programme in Managua,
Nicaragua

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
14th N-AERUS Conference 2013, Enschede, The Netherlands September 12-14 URBAN FUTURES. Multiple visions, paths and constructions? - 2013-01-01
Organising waste in the
city

María José Zapata Campos, C. Michael Hall
- 2013-01-01
Infrastructures, lock-in, and sustainable urban development. The case of waste incineration in the Göteborg Metropolitan
Area

Hervé Corvellec, María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Journal of Cleaner Production - 2013-01-01
Changing La Chureca: Organizing City Resilience Through Action
Nets

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Journal of Change Management - 2012-01-01
Public–private collaboration in the tourism sector: balancing legitimacy and effectiveness in local tourism partnerships. The Spanish
case

María José Zapata Campos, Michael Hall
Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure & Events - 2012-01-01
The travel of the 'waste transfer station' idea to Managua. Local translations of compliance and
contestation.

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Network-Association of European Researchers on Urbanization in the South. 22-24 November, Paris - 2012-01-01
Every Heaven requires its Hell: the consume & discard society and the invisible
city

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, Gothenburg, May 30-June 1, 2012 - 2012-01-01
Waste tourism: guided tours to the city back
regions

María José Zapata Campos
Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research, 7-10 November Umeå. - 2012-01-01
Avfall i
översättning

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Andreas Ivarsson (red): Nordisk kommunforskning. En forskningsövesikt med 113 projekt. - 2011-01-01
Organising the overflow of waste in the city. From waste to energy. What is lost in
translation?

María José Zapata Campos
The 27th EGOS Colloquium - 2011-01-01
Can community-based tourism contribute to development and poverty alleviation? Lessons from Nicaragua. In Current Issues in Tourism, vol 14 (8):
725-749

María José Zapata Campos, Michael Hall, Patricia Lindo, Mieke Vanderschaeghe
Current Issues in Tourism - 2011-01-01
The Governance of Waste-to-Energy Infrastructures: Locking in “Sustainable Urban
Transformations”?

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Gothenburg Public Management Seminar 2011 - 2011-01-01
Global narratives of sustainable waste governance in Managua,
Nicaragua

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Globalization and Development: Rethinking Interventions and Governance - 2011-01-01
How development ideas travel. Civil society organisations as intercultural
translators

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
The 27th EGOS Colloquium - 2011-01-01
Narratives of sustainable waste management in international aid
agencies

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
The 7th International Critical Management Studies (CMS) - 2011-01-01
Switching Managua on! Connecting forgotten wastescapes to the
city

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference, 14-16th June 2011, Stockholm - 2011-01-01
The hybridisation of city
management

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
6th Organization Studies Work Shop, Paris, 2011 - 2011-01-01
The encounter of cultures in an integral sustainable development project: stories of La Chureca garbage
slum

María José Zapata Campos
European Sociological Association ESA. Sociology of Culture. Culture and the making of the worlds. Milan, Italy, 7-9 October 2010 - 2010-01-01
Hybridisation and publicness in public-private
collaboration

María José Zapata Campos
ISA International Sociology Association World Congress, Gothenborg, Sweden, 11-18 July 2010, - 2010-01-01
Branding poverty. La Chureca, the 'slum project millionaire'. Or how does a project become a
project

María José Zapata Campos
Workshop Lund University, Exploring spaces and linkages between Services, Markets and Society, Helsingborg August 2010 - 2010-01-01
Ideas travelling through development aid
organisations

María José Zapata Campos, Patrik Zapata
European Sociology Association, Sociology of Culture. Culture and the making of the worlds, Milan, 2010 - 2010-01-01
Organising La Chureca. A journey through Hell, Earth and Heaven - Global and Local actors in
city-sustainability

Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
EGOS 2010 - 2010-01-01
Local Economic Development through Provincial Tourism Partnership: the case of
Nicaragua

María José Zapata Campos, John Bliek
compilation and edition by Richard Denman, for the United Nations- World Tourism Organisation and the Netherlands Development Organisation, 2009, Multi-stakeholder Collaboration for a Sustainable Tourism. - 2010-01-01
Life-cycle and impact assessment of Community-Based Tourism models in LatinoAmerica: learnings from
Nicaragua

María José Zapata Campos
ATLAS Africa Conference 2009 Tourism for Development:Environmental sustainability, poverty reduction and empowering communities. Gaborone, Botswana, July 1-3, 2009 - 2009-01-01