Anna is an ESRC Fellow in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work draws on Political Ecology and Science and Technology Studies to examine how ways and processes of knowing the environment shape the possibility of diverse futures.
Anna holds a PhD in International Development from ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, a bachelor’s degree in Spanish Literature and European History from the University of Edinburgh, and a foundation degree in Visual Communication from Wimbledon College of Art. She is a visiting fellow at the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Anna’s PhD research examined changing visions of storm risk among traditional fishers in Mexico and India. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork she developed the concept of ‘epistemic vulnerability’ to examine the (in)capacity to of marginalized voices to shape expertise as a form of exposure embedded in contemporary politics.
Anna is developing new work that moves beyond storm governance to examine contested imaginaries of justice and their intersections with the politics of ruination in wetlands restoration, and emerging practices of anti-colonial research.
Anna’s work has been published in both academic and popular publications and supported twice by the Economic and Social Research Council.
At ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Anna co-organizes the Contested Ecologies reading group. In 2020 she was awarded an ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Teaching Excellence prize.
Selected Publications
(2022) ‘Democracy in a Deluge: Epistemic Agency of Marginalised Voices in Oaxaca's Storm Governance’, Environment and Planning E. .
(2021) ‘Fixing Subjects, Fixing Outcomes: Civic Epistemologies and Epistemic Agency in Participatory Governance of Climate Risk’, Science, Technology and Human Values. 48(4): 938–964. .