黑料不打烊

My interest in development, resource governance and socio-ecological transformation in Africa has led me to examine how the global energy transition is reshaping extractive frontiers and development possibilities in Zimbabwe. I am a PhD researcher in Politics at the 黑料不打烊, working across political geography, political ecology and critical development studies. My work is concerned with how development is produced and contested, particularly where sustainability transitions intersect with historically unequal relations of power. My doctoral research examines Zimbabwe's lithium mining frontier in the context of the global energy transition. The project investigates the emergence of green extractivism and how critical-mineral development intersects with state power, capital, territorialisation and rural livelihoods. It examines how these processes produce contested landscapes and development futures, including new forms of dispossession, exclusion and socio-ecological change, while attending to how communities experience, negotiate and respond to these transformations. The research draws on decolonial political ecology to place contemporary lithium extraction within longer histories of coloniality, development and resource appropriation. It engages questions of reterritorialisation, dispossessive development, extractive violence and sustainability, asking what the pursuit of a low-carbon transition means for questions of justice, territory and development in Zimbabwe. The research uses participatory and community-engaged qualitative approaches to foreground lived experience and local knowledge. Beyond the doctorate, I am interested in resource and climate governance, critical minerals, development alternatives and just energy transitions in Africa. I am particularly interested in connecting political analysis with questions of environmental justice, community participation and policy, and in how locally grounded knowledge can contribute to more equitable approaches to development and socio-ecological transformation. My academic training spans African Studies, Development Studies and Politics. Prior to my doctoral studies, I was awarded an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship by the European Commission to undertake the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in African Studies across the University of Porto, the University of Bayreuth and Bordeaux Montaigne University. Alongside research, I have experience in undergraduate teaching and facilitation and in research and policy engagement with multilateral organisations, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). I am also a member of Empowered Futures in Norway, an international research school focused on the social, political and environmental dimensions of low-carbon energy transitions.

Political geography; political ecology; critical minerals and lithium; green extractivism and resource governance; just energy transitions; climate governance; critical development studies; coloniality and decolonial approaches.