I am a feminist political ecologist with a focus on knowledge politics related to conservation and development interventions. My work explores epistemological and ontological questions associated with environmental management, climate change, and wildlife conservation. I have worked for two decades with pastoral Maasai communities in Tanzania and Kenya. I now work as well with collaborators in India and am starting 2 overlapping collaborative projects:1) the gendered nature of wildlife conservation Globally (with a particular research focus on East Africa and India, 2) what Indigenous led conservation looks like across theory and practice around the world; All my work is concerned with how to decolonize methods, research and action to produce more socially just and ecologically sound futures.
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political ecology of conservation and development, politics of knowledge and participation surrounding conservation and development interventions, changing pastoral landscapes and adaptive capacities as related to climate change and social change, politics of climate change knowledge, Gendered dimensions of conservation and development, Decolonizing knowledge and conservation, Indigenous-led Conservation, Science and Technology Studies, biodiversity conservation, conservation social science
