I am an Assistant Professor in International Relations and also convene the MA in Environment, Developement and Policy. I received my BA, MA and PhD all from the University of Nottingham. Before joining the University of Sussex in 2023 I taught at Oxford Brookes University where I was Reader in International Political Economy. I have also taught previously at Birkbeck College and the University of Nottingham. 

My research is empirically focused on Latin America and concerned with questions of Indigenous resistance to neo-extractive development. I am also interested in questions of international theory, broadly tied the Historical Materialist tradition.

My first monograph Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance: Mexico and the Global Political Economy (University of Georgia Press) looked at the production and contestation of space within modern Mexico.  I examined state formation via multiple scales of power, including global, regional, national and subnational. These were linked through the novel deployment of Antonio Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution, understood as the state-led institution or expansion of capitalism that prevents the meaningful participation of the subaltern classes. Furthermore, I brought attention to the conflicts involved in the production of space, placing particular emphasis on indigenous communities and movements and their creation of counter-spaces of resistance.

I have just completed my second monograph,  entitled Marxism and the Marginalized: Struggles for Indigenous Sovereignty in Latin America (Oxford University Press). This work explores how Marxist concepts can be enriched via an engagement with Indigenous struggles in contemporary Latin America, focusing explicitly on the cases of Bolivia and Mexico.