Nuria Lopez Vazquez

Nuria is a writer and a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science. Her current work "soil care, home gardens and monoculture" is a feminist political ecology narrative of agriculture in Myanmar. She examines the interwoven realities of inequality, neocolonialism, and environmental pollution in the Shan mountains of Myanmar calling for agricultural development to transform into a food justice approach that could address Myanmar’s history of ethnic oppression and military power over the land. Among her in-depth study of agricultural development in Myanmar, she examines the potential for a politics of feminist soil care in the call for a regenerative future. Her research interests include:

• Agriculture and the politics of food
• Feminist theory
• Feminist political ecology
• Food justice
• Feminist care ethics
• Subsistence and degrowth