Bernadette P. Resurrección
Professor and Queen's National Scholar in Development in Practice
PhD (Development Studies), Erasmus University
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, A409
Global Development Studies
Queen's University
Curriculum Vitae (PDF 155 KB)
I am primarily interested in the field of political ecology, with a specific focus on feminist political ecology. My research explores various areas including climate change, disasters, rural livelihoods and mobilities, water and energy use, and the impacts of extractive activities and development projects on marginalized groups in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines). Additionally, I study mainstream expert-led development interventions and climate solutions through the lens of critical development theory and decolonial thinking. I am interested in researching emerging alternative strategies that challenge dominant development schemes to uncover diverse visions and practices of living in and sustaining the planet.
I am eager to supervise master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral projects within the nexus of feminist political ecology and decolonial aspects of critical development studies. I am particularly interested in projects related to social, gender, and environmental justice that critically examine climate change solutions, sustainable development, and the often-overlooked silent impacts and slow violence of resource extraction and various forms of displacement. I am also interested in exploring the politics of transitions and alternative strategies to development that position socioecological reproduction at the core of their vision and practice.
Resurrección, Bernadette and Elmhirst, Rebecca (2021). Negotiating Gender Expertise in Environment and Development: Voices from Feminist Political Ecology. Oxon and New York: Routledge.
Resurrección, Bernadette P. (2019) ‘Water insecurity in disaster and climate change contexts: A feminist political ecology view.’ In L.R. Mason and J. Rigg (eds) People and Climate Change: Vulnerability, Adaptation, Social Justice. Oxford University Press.
Resurrección B.P. et al. (2019) In the Shadows of the Himalayan Mountains: Persistent Gender and Social Exclusion in Development. In: Wester P., Mishra A., Mukherji A., Shrestha A. (eds) The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment. Springer, Cham
Resurrección, Bernadette P and Ha Nguyen (2018) ‘A feminist political ecology prism on development and change in Southeast Asia.” In MacGregor, A., Law, L. and Mackenzie, F. (eds). Routledge Handbook on Southeast Asian Development. Exon and New York: Routledge, pp 261-270.
Resurrección, Bernadette P. (2017) ‘Gender and environment in the Global South: From WED to Feminist Political Ecology.” In MacGregor, Sherilyn (ed). Routledge International Handbook on Gender and Environment. Exon and New York: Routledge, pp 71-85.
Lund, Ragnhild, Doneys, Philippe and Resurrección, Bernadette P. (2015) Gendered Entanglements: Re-visiting Gender in a Rapidly Changing Asia. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS).
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