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Professor Levi Gahman PhD (Interdisciplinary); MA (Dist.); BA (Hons); BSc (Summa Cum Laude); FHEA

Professor of Emancipatory Politics & Environmental Conflict Geography and Planning

About

Personal Statement

I started my career in the Caribbean and Central America where I lived for half a decade while focusing on international development, political geography, and participatory methods. I now work with grassroots movements, frontline organisers, and youth who are defending land, dignity, and self-determination amidst structural violence, abandonment, environmental conflict, and the enduring aftermaths of empire.

I strive to ensure that research is relevant to and co-authored by communities in struggle who are pursuing material-spiritual wellbeing, alternative futures, and autonomy "from below." We are committed to collective authorship, non-commercial open access, and disrupting unethical corporate publishing. I've also written about settler colonialism, masculinity, gun culture, and deaths of despair in the United States.