DrLian Sinclair

(she/her they/them)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Justice and Electricity Transmission

Faculty of Science

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Current and past research interests

  • Geographies of energy justice and renewable energy infrastructure
  • Just transitions in regions affected by historical fossil fuel extraction and proposed renewable energy infrastructure
  • Global production networks and critical minerals
  • Political economy and geography of the Australian mining industry
  • Gendered impacts of mining and feminist transformative development
  • Cumulative impact assessment in mining and colaborative governance
  • Indonesian politics, agrarian change and social movements
  • Multinational corporations, corporate power and global private governance
  • Queer, feminist, and experiential pedagogy
  • The social, economic and environmental legacies of mining
  • Social conflict theories, social reproduction theory, and primitive accumulation (land grabbing)
  • Gramscian understandings of hegemony, ideology and 'common sense'

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    The nickel boom and electric vehicle global production networks (EV-GPNs) new strategies for advocacy
    Sydney Southeast Asia Centre1 Jan 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Sinclair L