Political Ecologies

The Political Ecologies Research Group seeks to bring together academic staff and postgraduate research students, from both within the School of Geographical Sciences and beyond, who share an interest in the knowledge dynamics and power struggles shaping contemporary human–environment relations. The group welcomes all those committed to advancing critical scholarship of the processes through which nonhuman natures are conceptualised, mapped, governed and reconstituted, including through a range of politico-ecological approaches.

 

Current groups members’ interests span diverse issues including: climate change; biodiversity conservation; plant life; multispecies studies; farming, agroecology and food geographies; rural environments; energy cultures and transition; environmental risk, hazards and resilience; and resource making and extraction. Academic staff in the group include Dr Negar Behzadi, Dr Jaskiran Kaur Chohan, Dr Naomi Millner, Dr Nye Merrill-Glover and Dr James Palmer.