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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

PhD supervision

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

See Jennifer's research profile