Notes

My scholarship and transdisciplinary projects are rooted in place, which means, my work stems from and is discursivelly and geographically tied to places. Living in and visiting the Philippines, Australia, and the Pacific the past decade, has shaped a line of inquiry around conceptions of place and violence tied to it. My visits to mining sites and the communities that reside there and the collaborations and relations that emerge from and through it over the years sheds light around this. Through the years I have maintained a consist practice of documentation through videos, photos, sketches, and writings. Most of this is generative for more sustained and focused multi-year projects, like my 2023 MA thesis, but it's mainly a way to think through and engage critically around my main thematic concerns and the conversations and issues that shape it. On this page I share some thoughts and materials from my research and anything related. 

Image: Fieldwork in Naga City, Cebu in the Philippines; conducting interviews and documenting a quarry where a landslide killed over 70 people and displaced over 8000 people in September 2018. (2019)

Between 2018 and 2019, I spent 5 months in the Kingdom of Tonga to research mining as part of a project spanning Brazil, the Kingdom of Tonga, and the Philippines. This work was supported through residencies at ‘Atenisi Institute in Tonga, the East-West Center in Hawai’i and Tropical Futures Institute in the Philippines.