Research output per year
Research output per year
University of Manchester, Arthur Lewis Building, Room 1.073, Oxford Road
M13 9PL Manchester
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.
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.
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):
Doctor of Philosophy, Ecotopia Rising: An ecocritical analysis of radical environmental activists as ecotopian expressions amidst Anthropocene decline, Nottingham Trent University
Oct 2016 → Dec 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 2014 → Sept 2015
Award Date: 25 Sept 2015
Bachelor of Arts, Examining the biosocial effects of community gardens on (violent) crime, University of Miami
Aug 2010 → May 2014
Award Date: 16 May 2014
Trustee and Co-Convenor, Political Studies Association of the UK
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
13/04/23
1 Media contribution
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10/11/22
1 Media contribution
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Alberro, H., Taylor, B. & Kopnina, H.
8/06/22
1 Media contribution
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24/05/22
1 Media contribution
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6/12/21
1 Media contribution
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