Latin American Geographer and Development Specialist

I have been working successfully on a range of inter-related teaching and research activities with colleagues globally from the private, government and NGO sectors, most recently as National Manager of the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network (). As I have developed my involvement inside and outside academia, these research interests have coalesced around the idea of geographies of marginality, following the IGU (2003):

‘Marginality can be defined as “the temporary state of having been put aside, of living in relative isolation, at the edge of a system (cultural, social, political or economic)….”

Marginality is above all a dynamic concept subject to constant change, which does not deny agency to individuals, groups and communities (Gurung and Kollmair, 2005: 11). At the same time that the academic aspect of my career has been conducted alongside the development of substantial practical experience through consultancy and NGO work, this work and my teaching have converged on examining processes of marginality, i.e. how individuals, communities, places, ethnicities become marginalised, how marginality is performed and concomitantly how processes of marginality are to be understood.