Emilinah Namaganda

Emilinah Namaganda is a PhD candidate at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University. She obtained both her BSc. and MSc. degrees in Environmental Science from Makerere University in Uganda, and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, respectively.

 

In the backdrop of an expanding frontier of extractivism in Mozambique, partly driven by global ambitions for sustainability, her current research employs geospatial techniques (remote sensing and geographic information systems) and critical theories (specifically Africana Critical Theory) to examine:

  1. The socio-economic and environmental implications of the expanding extractivism frontier, focusing specifically on graphite and natural gas projects, and
  2. How communities affected by this expanding extractivism frontier, for instance through the processes of displacement and resettlement, experience and respond to its attendant impacts.

 

This research is part of a wider project; InFRONT (Inside Investment Frontiers of Sustainability Transitions) which aims to offer a new perspective on sustainability transitions that create and recreate resource frontier dynamics in the global South.