Selected Projects

TOWARDS AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF EXTRACTION (M.A. THESIS) - 2019-2023

An aerial view of a mine in Naga City, Cebu in the Philippines. Residents sued the mining companies and state actors following a deadly landslide that killed over 70 and is believed to have affected over 8,000 people in 2018 (2019). In my thesis, I theorize an epistemology of extraction consisting of three dimensions; the erasure of lived experiences, legal categories as fixed boundaries of knowledge, and manipulating courts. 

Ethnographic work, interviews and conversations with mining-affected residents, combined with legal documents obtained from this civil case in Naga City demonstrate this epistemological framing of mining violence. Moving away from mining quarries as sites of violence, I used an epistemological lens to frame the rule of law as a site of mining violence.

View my M.A. Thesis here  

CLAIMING / MAKING - 2020-2022

OUR ISLANDS - 2015-2016

What does life look like on different islands? That's the simple and perhaps naive question that started my research about islands as geographic and social spaces. As a new migrant to Australia, I was skeptical of the narrative shaped by western academics, tourism, policymakers, and generally a “white” Australia(n system and culture), with a skewed view on island and Indigenous cultures. 

FAUNA / FLORA - 2020-PRESENT

The project challenges the role of science in the classification of flora and fauna, favoring what are considered credible epistemologies. Ultimately, my interest lies in examining entrenched colonial systems.

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HARVEST - 2016-2017