Laura Vaz-Jones , Human Geography PhD Student

Home Campus:
U of T St. George

PhD:
Afro-Brazilian Women and Urban Land Struggles in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil

Other Degrees:
MA Human Geography, University of Toronto
BAH in Global Development Studies and Environmental Studies

Honours & Awards:
SSHRC (MA)
RBC Fellowship in Public and Economic Policy (MA)

Supervisor(s):
Sharlene Mollett

Contact Information:

laura.vaz.jones@mail.utoronto.ca

Research Interests:

• political ecology
• feminist political economy
• urban theory
• environmental justice
• land struggles
• displacement
• critical race theory

Selected Publications:

Vaz-Jones, Laura. 2018. “Struggles over Land, Livelihood, and Future Possibilities: Reframing Displacement through Feminist Political Ecology.” Signs  43(3): 711-735.

Research Clusters:
Political Ecology, Political Spaces