Dr Jennifer Langill
Lecturer in International Development
Research interests
- International development
- Environment
- Equality
Contact details
Biography
Jennifer Langill is Lecturer in International Development in the Department of International Development.
Jennifer joined King's in 2025. She holds a PhD in Geography from McGill University, a Master of Arts in Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from Queen's University in Global Development Studies. Prior to joining King's, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Jennifer is a feminist human geographer, working at the intersect of critical development studies and nature-society relations. Conceptually, she draws from feminist approaches to political ecology and critical livelihood scholarship. She is interested in the relationships between social and political marginalization, human-environment connections, livelihood activities, and individual lifeworlds. Her work is empirically based in the Global South, particularly Thailand, Laos, and Amazonian Peru.
Research
- Feminist political ecology
- Human-environment relations
- Rural livelihoods
- Intersectionality
- Feminist geographies
- Ethnographic and qualitative methods
- Comparative development
- Southeast Asia and Amazonia
Jennifer’s research primarily falls within three areas:
- Livelihood changes across time and generations. This research is motivated by interrelated contextual drivers of livelihood transitions, such as agrarian change, shifting sociocultural and economic conditions, and social positioning and relations in shaping livelihood objectives and outcomes.
- Nature-society relations, particularly pertaining to environmental change, environmental hazards, and shifting uses of natural resources. With an emphasis on place-based and culturally-defined relationships to the environment and environmental resources, this research takes a feminist political ecology approach to understanding the emotional, embodied, and political dimensions of human-environment relations.
- Narratives of development, including what development means to who, how it is defined and to serve what purposes, and how development creates and reinforces power relations and social difference.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- 6YYD0024 Political Ecologies of Development
Postgraduate
- 7YYDN040 Introduction to Qualitative Methods
PhD supervision
Jennifer is currently supervising:
- Natasha King: "Towards a gender-inclusive adaptive social protection framework: Evidence from the Asia-Pacific region" (co-supervised with Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez).
- Ketan Pawar: “Climate Change and Human Rights in an Urbanising World: The Role of Climate Policy in Agrarian and Rural–Urban Adaptation”
- Qiuyu Zhu: "Urban regeneration and the struggle for women’s spatial justice: a feminist political ecology comparison of Manchester and Wuhan"
Jennifer would be happy to supervise PhD students working on themes similar to those listed above. Please contact her to discuss potential supervision.
Further details
Research
Creative Contestations and Social Justice research group
This research group is concerned with social justice – spanning questions of equity and fairness, rights, accountabilities, participation, and inclusion. Our group members have a shared orientation towards critical scholarship and activism, and are committed to creative and interdisciplinary approaches.
Climate, Environment, and Power research group
This group focuses on the critical study of the processes that drive and link social and ecological change in the contemporary world, with special attention to the climate crisis and its multiple social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions.
Gender Studies at King's
Bringing together like-minded scholars and students across King’s. Our research and teaching examines the influence of gender relations, promotes feminist analysis, and challenges patriarchal assumptions and structures.
Democracy and Development research group
A group that explores the contested relationship between democracy and development, with a particular focus on ideas and practices from the Global South.
Just Transitions and Interdisciplinary Peace research group
Research group examining the transitions, natural resource governance, and (in)security impacted by decarbonisation and sustainability initiatives.
Events
LGBTQI+ Rights Under Pressure in Colombia: Political Change and Justice
Join us for an in-person panel event on LGBTQI+ rights in Colombia. Co-hosted by the King's Gender Studies Network and ABColombia, join us for a conversation...
Transnational Diaries: Between Streets, Gallery, and Book
Join King's Creative Contestations and Social Justice Research Group for a book launch with Dr Mara Nogueira for her new book, "Transnational Diaries: Between...
Protected and Controlled: The Intergenerational Impacts of Environmental Governance in Northern Thailand
Millions of hectares of land around the world have been formally designated as ‘protected areas’. In Thailand, this represents nearly a quarter of the...
Please note: this event has passed.
Research
Creative Contestations and Social Justice research group
This research group is concerned with social justice – spanning questions of equity and fairness, rights, accountabilities, participation, and inclusion. Our group members have a shared orientation towards critical scholarship and activism, and are committed to creative and interdisciplinary approaches.
Climate, Environment, and Power research group
This group focuses on the critical study of the processes that drive and link social and ecological change in the contemporary world, with special attention to the climate crisis and its multiple social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions.
Gender Studies at King's
Bringing together like-minded scholars and students across King’s. Our research and teaching examines the influence of gender relations, promotes feminist analysis, and challenges patriarchal assumptions and structures.
Democracy and Development research group
A group that explores the contested relationship between democracy and development, with a particular focus on ideas and practices from the Global South.
Just Transitions and Interdisciplinary Peace research group
Research group examining the transitions, natural resource governance, and (in)security impacted by decarbonisation and sustainability initiatives.
Events
LGBTQI+ Rights Under Pressure in Colombia: Political Change and Justice
Join us for an in-person panel event on LGBTQI+ rights in Colombia. Co-hosted by the King's Gender Studies Network and ABColombia, join us for a conversation...
Transnational Diaries: Between Streets, Gallery, and Book
Join King's Creative Contestations and Social Justice Research Group for a book launch with Dr Mara Nogueira for her new book, "Transnational Diaries: Between...
Protected and Controlled: The Intergenerational Impacts of Environmental Governance in Northern Thailand
Millions of hectares of land around the world have been formally designated as ‘protected areas’. In Thailand, this represents nearly a quarter of the...
Please note: this event has passed.