Projects
Imperial Extractivist Infrastructures: Petrocultural Violence and Resistance in Contemporary Indigenous Literature, Art, and Film KU Leuven
This proposed project, entitled "Imperial Extractivist Infrastructures", will offer the first in-depth study of literary and artistic Indigenous (American, Canadian, and Australian) responses to settler-colonial extractivism from three carefully chosen sites; namely the coal and uranium mines in the Navajo Nation (USA), the Athabasca tar sands (Canada), and the Adani Carmichael coal mining site in Queensland (Australia). The impact of fossil ...
The Socio-Politics of the Mobility - Urbanization Nexus: Techno-political Frames, Transportation Injustice and Informal Transportation in the Department of Antioquia in Colombia KU Leuven
This research explores the distinctive mobility patterns of transportation systems designed to answer the needs and demands of the commercial and agricultural sector in two specific regions in the department of Antioquia in Colombia (Urabá and San Nicolas valley). In addition, the research studies the impact of the existing and proposed mobility and transportation infrastructural projects in social and urban development on local and regional ...