My Research Interests
Energy Transition Justice
I study climate-change policies phasing out hydrocarbons; what has been called the “energy transition.” I show how the top-down energy transition is a violent sociotechnical transformation reorganizing individual and communal lives and landscapes. This involves researching the everyday necessities of communities providing for each other (eating, housing, healing) and how state-sponsored climate change schemes threaten these quotidian practices of survival. My militant ethnographic approach addresses energy transition justice using infrastructural projects as territorial and social transformations in Mexico and the United States.
Feminist Futures
I engage with the practices and knowledges that organized men and women create through communication, transportation, and education efforts in what I call geographies of hope. In the face of old and new forms of violence stemming from extractivism, militarization, neoconservatism, and neoliberalism, communities organize to confront them. They resist these multiple violences but also produce expert knowledge with prefigurative pedagogies of plural futures that center autonomy and collaboration between individuals and collectives.