Dr Naomi Millner

Research summary

I am a human 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 through Walter Benjamin and Jacques Rancière

• Community education, radical education and pedagogies for social change, including feminist approaches 

My current work focuses on the conditions of emergence ...

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Biography

I completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge in 2006, and later completed a Masters in Society and Space and a PhD in Human Geography at the University of Bristol.

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 Network, for which I remain a Trustee ...

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Links

• The Bristol Hospitality Network
•   The Authority Research Network

Recent publications

• Millner, N, 2018, ‘Modelling accompaniment: Creating equitable participation through organisational culture in the community-managed forests of the Petén, Guatemala’. World Development.
• Millner, N & , 2018, ‘From the garden to the city: Principles for transforming the "invisible rules" that shape urban food spaces’. in: Morag McDermont (eds) Productive Margins: Regulating for Engagement. Policy Press

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