My research sits at the intersection of political ecology, development studies, and critical agrarian studies. I am broadly interested in how climate governance reconfigures land, labor, and livelihood across rural and agrarian landscapes. With attention to rural communities in both Southeast Asia and previously in the United States, my work draws on multi-sited ethnography to examine how climate change transforms the terms of land access, labor relations, and rural futures. My dissertation considers the politics of environmental repair, asking who fixes what, at whose expense, and toward whose future, as mangrove restoration shapes agrarian landscapes and coastal livelihoods in Indonesia.
ENVIRONMENTAL REPAIR
I see environmental repair as political. I examine how climate change restructures relations of repair and maintenance, in turn transforming who bears the burden of adaptation and who stands to benefit from the promise of restoration.
LAND RELATIONS
Land is never just a material substrate; it is a terrain of power, memory, and livelihood. My work examines how climate change and its governance reshape access, tenure, and property in rural and coastal landscapes in Indonesia and the United States.
AGRARIAN CHANGE
I am interested in how global processes like climate governance, green capitalism, and market-based conservation produce transformations in rural and agrarian worlds. My work attends to the political economies that reshape labor, land, and livelihood for farming and fishing communities navigating rapid environmental and economic change.
CLIMATE GOVERNANCE
My work engages critically with the proliferation of nature-based climate solutions, such as carbon farming or Blue Carbon credits, and restoration economies as modes of climate governance. I examine how these initiatives are designed, implemented, and contested, and what they mean for the communities and landscapes enrolled in them.