Department Affiliations
Narrative
Research interests:
- The politics of 'life' : political rationality and biological existence; the securitization of biological life; biosecurity and empire; biology and virtuality
- The political life of objects: the place of technoscience in social and political life; cultural geography and materiality
- The animal and the human : the animal in social and political thought; configurations of humans and animals in an age of biosecurity
- Philosophy and geography: humanism and posthumanism; philosophies of corporeality and materiality; concepts of life and nature; ontology; the body in political theory
- Ecopolitics : environmental social movements; nature, environmentalism and difference; colonialism and environmentalism
I am currently reading writers such as Georgio Agamben, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault; Felix Guattari, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, Benedictus de Spinoza, and Isabelle Stengers.
Current supervisions:
I am working with doctoral students working on science, modernity and the nation; sovereignty, territory and conservation; sleep medicine and biopolitics; biotechnology and plant genetic resources; the right to politics of immigrants in Europe; environmental democracy and political theory; the politics of community in Chile; the cultural economy of counterfeit goods; sovereign power and reproductive health; biomimicry and the military.
If you are interested in working with me, please send me a short cv and statement of your research interests.
Specialties
- colonial and postcolonial geographies
- eco-politics
- political ecology
- race and nature
- geopolitics of biosecurity
- biotechnology and biopolitics
- posthumanism and geography
- social and political theory
Awards
- McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, 2001
Courses Taught
- GEOG 3376: Polical Ecology of North America
- GEOG 4002: Social theory and the environment
- GEOG 8001: Nature-Society Proseminar
- GEOG 8980: The Political Life of Things: Technoscientific Objects and the Constitution of Common Worlds
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