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Heather Alberro

Dr

  • University of Manchester, Arthur Lewis Building, Room 1.073, Oxford Road

    M13 9PL Manchester

Personal profile

Overview

I'm a Lecturer in sustainability based in the University of Manchester's Global Development Institute (GDI), and contributing to sustainability scholarship and teaching across SEED. I'm a transdisciplinary academic-activist with areas of expertise and interest in the (critical) environmental social sciences and humanities, including radical and decolonial environmental politics, green utopianism, environmental movements, critical sustainabilities, and post-anthropocentric environmental ethics. I'm especially interested in examining human attitudes to, and ways of valuing, the other-than-human world, and post-anthropocentric visions of sustainable futures for multispecies justice. 

Pedagogy

I adopt decolonial, critical and eco-pedagogical approaches for (re)generating students' sense of political agency in challenging systemic injustice and unsustainability. In this vein, I am much inspired by the pedagogical thought and praxis of Bell Hooks, Paulo Freire, Deanne Bell, and Henry Giroux. I'm also interested in embedding advocacy and civic engagement into curricula for facilitating transformative change, namely through praxis projects, utopian world-building exercises and fostering academic-activist collaborations.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, Ecotopia Rising: An ecocritical analysis of radical environmental activists as ecotopian expressions amidst Anthropocene decline, Nottingham Trent University

Oct 2016Dec 2020

Award Date: 21 Dec 2020

Master in Science, Visions of the Future: challenges and adaptations to the socio-ecological perturbations of contemporary capitalism, University of Kent

Sept 2014Sept 2015

Award Date: 25 Sept 2015

Bachelor of Arts, Examining the biosocial effects of community gardens on (violent) crime, University of Miami

Aug 2010May 2014

Award Date: 16 May 2014

External positions

Trustee and Co-Convenor, Political Studies Association of the UK

Areas of expertise

  • HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism
  • Sustainability Transitions
  • JC Political theory
  • GE Environmental Sciences

Keywords

  • Ecotopia
  • Sustainability
  • climate change politics
  • Biodiversity
  • Ethics, sustainability, and inclusion
  • Sustainable Development
  • sustainable energy transitions
  • Environmental Justice
  • Multispecies justice
  • Decolonial Approaches

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