I am a geographer, environmental anthropologist, and postcolonial theorist. My research cuts across natural and social sciences to understand how social, political, and ecological change, colonial histories, and the materialisation of environmental discourses and actions come to shape the rituals, livelihoods, and experiences of traditional forest communities in the Caribbean and Latin America. My research also explores how environmental data practices – e.g. GIS, remote sensing data, and ecological methods – shape and differentiate access and power in environmental spaces. I am particularly interested in understanding how colonial logic and a metaphysics of blackness coproduce the means by which environments are articulated, constructed, and evaluated.
Empirically, I work with traditional communities to monitor ecosystems and document and resist the exploitation, misuse, and colonisation of traditional and indigenous knowledge. I hold a bachelors degree in Mathematics and Biology from University of Bristol, Masters in Sociology and in Anthropology (both) from UCL, and a PhD in environmental anthropology from UCL. I join Georgetown after an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship at UCL and a postdoc at Columbia University. I remain affiliated with both universities as Honorary Research Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor respectively.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Assistant Professor, College - Department of Anthropology