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.
In line with the broader focus of the Department of International Development, the group places particular attention on these processes as they unfold in Global South, placing these in the context of the power relations and patterns of planetary uneven development that situate these regions within a broader world-system.
The group aims to host research on a range of key contemporary topics in environment, development, and political ecology including: the global politics and political economy of the climate crisis; climate finance and green capitalism; ecosocialism and ecomarxism; politics of climate adaptation and mitigation; green transitions and energy; global political economy of extraction and uneven development; social movements, subjectivity, and the environment; water politics, infrastructure, and the hydro-social cycle; agrarian change and agricultural development; decolonisation, indigeneity, and environmental racism; social reproduction and the environment; urbanisation and urban political ecology; and the politics and socio-economic dimensions of conservation, biodiversity and extinction, among other theoretical and empirical themes.
The group also aims to critically engage with contemporary debates on environmental politics and policy, as well as with different ideological and theoretical frameworks for addressing and understanding environmental change and its relation to international development.
People
Lecturer in International Development
Lecturer in International Development
PhD student
Lecturer in Development Policy and Practice
Senior Lecturer in International Development
Lecturer in International Development Education
Projects
Projects in the Climate, Environment, and Uneven Development research group
See below for a full list of our ongoing and completed research projects.
Publications
Events
Extractivism, violence, and indigenous movements in Mexico
Over the past few years, indigenous communities and territories in south-eastern Mexico have been sites of a marked increase in violence – including community displacement, harassment, and armed conflict – from both state and non-state actors, often in the context of a generalised regional encroachment of extractive economies and infrastructure projects upon indigenous territories.
We were happy to welcome a delegation of both the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and the Chiapas-based 'Fray Bartolomé De Las Casas' Human Rights Centre to speak about the contemporary situation of indigenous peoples in Mexico, in the context of important shifts in the political economy of extractivism and infrastructure the country has seen over recent years. In particular, the panel spoke on the forms of neo-colonial state and non-state violence communities resisting extractivism across the country have been subjected to, and the more recent wave of violence threatening indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
People
Lecturer in International Development
Lecturer in International Development
PhD student
Lecturer in Development Policy and Practice
Senior Lecturer in International Development
Lecturer in International Development Education
Projects
Projects in the Climate, Environment, and Uneven Development research group
See below for a full list of our ongoing and completed research projects.
Publications
Events
Extractivism, violence, and indigenous movements in Mexico
Over the past few years, indigenous communities and territories in south-eastern Mexico have been sites of a marked increase in violence – including community displacement, harassment, and armed conflict – from both state and non-state actors, often in the context of a generalised regional encroachment of extractive economies and infrastructure projects upon indigenous territories.
We were happy to welcome a delegation of both the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and the Chiapas-based 'Fray Bartolomé De Las Casas' Human Rights Centre to speak about the contemporary situation of indigenous peoples in Mexico, in the context of important shifts in the political economy of extractivism and infrastructure the country has seen over recent years. In particular, the panel spoke on the forms of neo-colonial state and non-state violence communities resisting extractivism across the country have been subjected to, and the more recent wave of violence threatening indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
Group lead
Lecturer in International Development