Member Profiles

I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography in Cambridge. I explore alternative concepts and uses of territory in collaboration with Amazonian indigenous peoples in Peru.
My interests centre on territory and indigenous geographies, decolonial approaches to posthumanist geography, development, and state level planning, and collaborative geographical methods. I am interested in the potential of indigenous territorial approaches in opening up spaces for alternative knowledge production and spatial epistemologies around territory and territorial governance in postcolonial contexts, particularly in the Amazon region. I have been collaborating with Amazonian indigenous peoples for over 10 years. My current work builds upon this ongoing engagement.
My PhD research explores territory, contrasting Eurocentric historical geographical representations of indigenous ancestral territories and indigenous notions and uses. In collaboration with the Wampis indigenous nation in the Peruvian Amazon, I interrogate prevailing colonial notions of territory and their influence on historically naturalised cartographies and statecraft, and current territorial governance schemes.
I am a National Geographic Explorer since 2019.