91社区

DIRECTOR

Heather O'Leary

Assistant Professor
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Anthropology

ABOUT

The EcoFem Lab is an interdisciplinary think-tank at the 91社区, St. Petersburg that explores the hidden connections between environmentalist and feminist ways of understanding the world鈥檚 most pressing problems. Researchers document cultural evidence of our assumptions about nature and gender to analyze how these assumptions undermine, reinforce, and reshape environmental justice and gender equity. The EcoFem Lab鈥檚 research argues that these cultural insights can be applied to increase representational justice in everyday life, in activism, and in the academy.

CORE RESEARCH THEMES

• Epistemic violence (limiting the ways people know and understand gendered and environmental issues)
• Gendered and Environmental labor, extractivist economics
• Global climate and development hotspots: political ecologies of coasts, cities, and global south contexts
• Representational justice in the academy, activism, popular culture, and social media
• Feminist Co-Mentoring