WHO WE ARE

Daniel Hartley (he/him) is Associate Professor in World Literatures at Durham University (UK). He is the author of The Politics of Style: Towards a Marxist Poetics (Brill, 2017), and has published widely on Marxist theory and modern world literatures. He is currently working on a book project provisionally entitled Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and Agrarian Struggle.
José Alfredo Ramírez (he/him) is an architect, and head of Ground Lab and the Landscape Urbanism and Metropolitan Landscapes programmes at the Architectural Association. His work includes developing the field of agroecological urbanism, supporting investigative and cartographic practices to unveil the impact of extractive industries, and designing decentralised tools such as the Socio Hydrological Index for Mexico City and Oaxaca .
Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, PhD (she/her) is an architect, educator and researcher working at the intersection of landscape, territory and environmental justice. She is a Studio Master, co-director of Groundlab at the Architectural Association, and co-director of the AA Mexico Visiting School Metropolitan Landscapes with TEC Monterrey. She also teaches Histories and Theories seminars on the AA Landscape Urbanism (AALU) program .
Olivia Oldham-Dorrington (she/her) is a PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh, and a writer and podcast producer. Her work explores the relationship between property relations and food systems, asking how the way land is accessed, owned and governed influences the way food is produced.
Sophia Doyle (she/her) is a researcher and writer exploring the colonial histories and imperialist dimensions of industrial agriculture and the modern agri-food system. She is currently based in Berlin, where she is doing a PhD with the research training group ‘minor cosmopolitanisms’ at Potsdam University.  
Kai Heron (he/him) is a Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University and a co-director of the radical research and action institute Abundance. He writes and researches on the subjects of anti-imperialist and agrarian Marxism, global political economy, and critical agrarian studies.
Patrick Bresnihan (he/him) is a lecturer in Maynooth University, Ireland. His work looks at the contested politics of water, land, and infrastructure in Ireland and how these speak to broader questions of postcolonial development and the green transition in the capitalist world system.
Adam Calo (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Governance and Politics in the Geography, Planning and Environment group at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He studies the way systems of land tenure, norms of property, and complexities of land access tend to water down and frustrate efforts to reform food systems. . He writes the blog Land Food Nexus and produces the Landscapes podcast.
Alex Heffron (he/him) is a part-time farmer in west Wales and a full-time PhD researcher at Lancaster University looking at post-Brexit changes to farming and farmland. His writing can be found here.
Rob Booth (he/him) is a political ecologist and researcher with a particular interest in the development and impacts of agricultural technologies. His PhD research explored the futures associated with emergent agricultural technologies such as gene editing.
































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