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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

Aiko Ikemura Amaral

Lecturer in International Development

Luis Andueza

Lecturer in International Development

Fraser Curry

PhD student

Barnaby Dye

Lecturer in Development Policy and Practice

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Senior Lecturer in International Development

Ambarish Karamchedu

Lecturer in International Development Education

Projects

Climate change deforestation
Projects in the Climate, Environment, and Uneven Development research group

See below for a full list of our ongoing and completed research projects.

    Full list of our 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.

      See the full event details here

      People

      Aiko Ikemura Amaral

      Lecturer in International Development

      Luis Andueza

      Lecturer in International Development

      Fraser Curry

      PhD student

      Barnaby Dye

      Lecturer in Development Policy and Practice

      Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

      Senior Lecturer in International Development

      Ambarish Karamchedu

      Lecturer in International Development Education

      Projects

      Climate change deforestation
      Projects in the Climate, Environment, and Uneven Development research group

      See below for a full list of our ongoing and completed research projects.

        Full list of our 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.

          See the full event details here