Dr Naomi Millner

Research summary

I am a political-economic geographer who works primarily in the following areas:

• Post-colonial, de-colonial and political ecology approaches to environmental politics, with a focus on the politics of knowledge
• The cultural politics of race, nature and social exclusion
• Food justice, agrarian social movements and food sovereignty, especially in the context of Central America
• Concepts of 'commons' and 'commoning'
• Migration, border politics and transnational forms of belonging
• Theories of politics and aesthetics, especially Walter Benjamin, Jacques Rancière and decolonial theories
• Community education, radical education and pedagogies for social change, including feminist approaches 
• Environmental monitoring and digital monitoring practices. 

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Biography

I completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge in 2006, and later studied for my MSc in Society and Space and a PhD in Human Geography at the University of Bristol. I completed my PhD in 2012

As part of my academic practice I am committed to practices for just and equitable social change as well as the dissemination of useful knowledge through popular education networks. To this end I work closely with community partners and social movements in my research. I am also involved in several refugee and asylum-seeking organisations in Bristol and co-founded the Bristol Hospitality ...

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Links

• The Bristol Hospitality Network
•   The Authority Research Network

Recent publications

• Millner, N, 2019, ‘As the drone flies: Configuring a vertical politics of contestation within forest conservation’. Political Geography.
• Millner, N, 2019, ‘Queering Mother Earth? The borderland geographies and aesthetic politics of demiurgical figures in transnational indigenous activism’. cultural geographies.

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