MY RESEARCH
uses a political ecology lens to examine the political economies and cultural politics of resource extraction and resource nationalism; water governance and water justice; indigeneity and rural livelihoods. My work focuses on the central Andes and western Amazon of South America.
po·lit’·i·cal e·col’·o·gy
a critical analytical framework for examining environment-society relations. Rooted in Marxist theory and influenced by feminist theory, postcolonialism and post-structural thought, political ecology understands environments as always already politicized, and examines the power relations that shape how people access, manage, understand, and struggle over nature and natural resources
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Water governance
and water justice
Indigeneity and rural livelihoods
Resource extraction and resource nationalism
Political ecology and other topics