Denise Misleh Heller

Research interests:

• alternative/moral economies
• regional development
• rural urban relationships
• cultural political economy
• neoliberalism and counter-hegemonic practices

I am a geography postgraduate student at the university of Manchester. I am currently researching food relocalisation intiatives in England employing a cultural political economic approach. My research critically engages in analysing diversity and alterity in emerging economic forms contextualising them in broader process of social change.

Prior to my doctoral studies I have researched and profesionally worked on rural territorial development, social innovations and urban and rural linkages. I hold a joint Master Degree in Global Studies from the University of Leipzig and Vienna part of the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Consortium. During my Master’s she I researched agro-ecological practices as a resistance to globalisation in Oaxaca, Mexico and my thesis was awarded by the Consortium.

I am a member of the Cities, Politics, Economies Research Group and Society and environment Research Group both at the University of Manchester.