Member Profiles

My research sits across human geography, development studies and political ecology. Broadly, I work on questions of socio-environmental change in response to environmental crisis and climate change. To date, this has involved working in Bolivia on post-neoliberalism, environmentalism, indigeneity and protected areas conservation.

My current research, funded by an Royal Geographical Society Environment & Sustainability Grant, investigates reiterations of sustainable development as promoted by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This involves analysing how NGOs work with social movements in Bolivia, as well as how the SDGs encounter conflicts surrounding energy megaprojects and their related infrastructure - identified as environmental justice.

My Vice-Chancellor’s Fellowship at Bristol builds on this project, investigating how development is conceptualised and promoted in response to climate change. Specifically, this means examining how international NGOs engage with the politics of alternative development (in relation to extractive economies and climate change) across Latin America and analysing how this is represented in publics in the Global North.