Teaching & Supervision

Supervision

I am keen to supervise projects on urban poltical ecology, political ecology of climate transition and renewable energies, rural-urban tensions, postcolonial urbanism and southern urbanism, and infrastructure studies, including projects that involves creative methods such as photo, film and theatre. 

PhD students

• 2021 (ongoing) Devika Prakash, Urban and Regional Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. A study of "smart cities" in the Indian context developed from an STS and Southern urbanism perspective. Co-supervisor. Main supervisor is Jonathan Metzger. Co-supervisor: Andrew Karvonen. 
• 2020 (ongoing) Matthew Varco, Department of Geography, The University of Manchester. A study into the political ecology of the far-right with a case study on völkish settlements in German, Main supervisor. Co-supervisors: Aurora Fredriksen and Erik Swyngeoduw.
• 2022-2023 Seema Paul, Environmental Science Department (aka SEED), KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Thesis defended on 24 November 2023 with title: “Lake Hydrodynamics and Pollution Transport under Climate Change: The Case of Lake Victoria.” Dr Paul had finalised her Licentiate earlier at the department and I organised full funding from the department for the remaining time and supervised with Zahra Kalantari for the remaining 15 months. Main supervisor. Co-supervisor: Zahra Kalantari, hydrological expert.
• 2015-2019 Kathleen Stokes, Department of Geography, The University of Manchester. A study of collaborative waste governance in Cape Town and Johannesburg as part of the TLR project on the political ecology of South African urban waste management (funded by ESRC-DFID). I am co-supervisor with Erik Swyngedouw at the University of Manchester as main supervisor. Ongoing.
• 2011-2015  Marnie Graham, Department of Systems Ecology & Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University in co-tutelle with Geography at Macquarie University, Sydney. Title: “Postcolonial Nature Conservation and Collaboration in Urban Protected Areas: Everyday Relations at Macassar Dunes/Wolfgat Reserves, Cape Town, South Africa”, PhD Dissertation. Defended successfully: 27 February 2015.
• 2011-2015  Joshua Lewis, Department of Systems Ecology & Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. Title: “Deltaic Dilemmas: Ecologies of Infrastructure in New Orleans”, PhD Dissertation. Defended successfully: 16 September 2015.

Postdoctoral researchers in my projects and mentorship:

• 2018-2019  Wangui Kimari, (anthropologist), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, graduated from York University, Canada. GROWL Project. I also was the supervisor for Dr. Kimari’s Urban Studies Foundation grant at the University of Manchester as International Fellowship during 2018-2019. 
• 2018-2019 Ricardo Cardoso (critical geographer), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, graduated from UC Berkeley. GROWL Project.
• 2016-2018 Nate Millington (critical geographer), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, graduated from University of Kentucky. Study of the connection between international capital and the extraction of value from urban waste in South Africa and its relation to the urban poor. TLR Waste Project (ESRC-DFID). Ongoing.
• 2015-2017 Suraya Scheba (critical geographer), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, graduated from The University of Manchester. Everyday informal economy and political ecology of Delft, Cape Town. Co-supervision with Edgar Pieterse in the NOTRUC Project. Ongoing.
• 2016-2017 Koni Benson (historian), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, graduated from UCT. Histories of women organizing against forced eviction in Cape Town (post- and during apartheid) based on feminist theory of co-producing knowledge. The NOTRUC Project.
• 2011-2012 Mary Lawhon (human geographer), African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, graduated from Clark University. WOK-UE Project.
• 2012-2014 Anna Storm (historian), Department of Cultural Geography, Stockholm University, graduated from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. WOK-UE Project.

MSc student supervision

At KTH (Master thesis, MEX, 30hp) [19 students as of 2024]

• 2024 Sofia Nordenswan and Amanda Fyren, The Hidden Costs of the Low-Emission Transition: A Critical Analysis of Lithium Extraction, Green Discourses, and Sweden’s New Giga Battery Factory (political ecology, AL250X)
• 2024 Yipei Zhang, The Great Wall of Water: State Ambitions and Local Realities of China’s Three Gorges Dam (political ecology, AL250X)
• 2024 Malte Loman, Homlessness and Hostile Architecture in Stockholm (AL250X)
• 2024 Hauchin Mokrian, Bicycle Infrastructure of Gothenburg (AL250X)
• 2023 Maximilian Rischer, Political Ecology of Green Hydrogen in Nambia
• 2023 Tuva Wallin, Colonial Remains and Swedish Mining: The case of Gallok
• 2023 Michelle Silva Vasquez, Food, Land and Peace: Political Ecology of Land Access and its Implications on Food Sovereignty in Colombia’s Post-agreement Period
• 2023 Khadija Ali, Vulnerabilities of Disasters in Unequal Geographies, Beirut
• 2023 Karima Hared, Politics of Waste Management in Port of Beirut
• 2023 Farah Kassem, Analysis of Environmental Management Policies in Beirut
• 2022 Pontus Klasman Gustafsson, Imperial modes of living & ecologically unequal exchange.
• 2022 Rohini Srivyshnavi Korlakunta, Governance and conservation of water in drought-prone areas of rural India- cases, strategies and challenges
• 2022 Frida Helander and Per Leijonhielm, Densitet och social hållbarhet som planeringsdiskurs i mellanstora svenska städer med en studie i Västerås
• 2022 Ludvig Callermo Riedel, Grön/grönblå infrastruktur som klimatanpassningsåtgärd med fallstudie av Norra Djurgårdsstaden
• 2022 Sonto Amy Mkize, Heterogenous smart urbanism and waste management in Nairobi
• 2022 Vendela Hasselberg, Sustainability as ideology in Norra Djurgårdstaden
• 2022 Mona Rafieefar, invited supervisor of Master Thesis at Uppsala University, Critical ciscourse analysis of the EU Green Deal with a focus on electric vehicles
• 2021 Annie Bartos, regional green infrastructure planning in Stockholm
• 2021 Rachel Hopkins, green space urban planning in Stockholm)

At Department of Geography, The University of Manchester [3 students]

• 2020 Emily Corner, archival study of Kew Garden and politics of environmental knowledge
• 2019 Brook Makonnen, political ecology of large-scale infrastructure in Nairobi, Kenya, linked to my research.
• 2019 Ruth Fox, historical case study on the political ecology of sugar production in Durban, South Africa, linked to my research.

At Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University [7 students]

• 2011                 Johan Lundqvist (2011; case study in Kigali, Rwanda)
• 2010                 Marnie Graham (2010; case study in Cape Town, South Africa)
• 2010                 Elin Israelsson (2010; case study in Cape Town, South Africa)
• 2010                 Christian Stein (2010; case study in Tanzania) 
• 2009                 Livia Benson (2009; case study in Stockholm, Sweden)
• 2007                 Nils Johansson (2007; case study in Gaza, Palestine)
• 2005                 Dissanayake Hasanthi (2005; case study in Sri Lanka)

Bachelor and Honours thesis supervision:

At KTH

• 2024 Agnes Wedman and Wilma Eriksson, Land and politics of wind power extension in Sundsvall, AL127X
• 2024 Mariolina Stålhös and Leila Guidmiui, Rare Earth Metals and land politics in Kiruna, AL127X
• 2023 Marija Lucija Pajtlar and Elin Söderlund, Political ecology of battery production
• 2022 Sofia Nordenswan and Sigrid Brydolf, Agroecology in developing countries
• 2022 Sofia Pöldma, Quantitative assessment of production and recycling dynamics in battery production: The case of Northvolt
• 2021 Emma Mörlin, Anna Westerberg, Climate adaptation of metal powder industry
• 2021 Aylin Berber, Louise Wernersson, Political ecology of wind power in Sweden

At The University of Manchester

• Supervisor for Third Year UG Dissertation Students. 12 students per year with meetings and feedback from October to April.
• Supervisor for Second Year UG students to plan their dissertations. This means to prepare about 15 students per year.

At University of Cape Town (honours thesis)

• 2011                Jessica Rattle (co-supervised, 2011; case study in Cape Town; WOK-UE Project)
• 2011               Georgina Avlonitis (co- supervised, 2011, case study Cape Town; MOVE Project)