My research lies at the intersection of multispecies health, animal geographies and political ecology, looking at the processes through which animal, human, and environmental harms converge. Particularly, I have explored, through qualitative methods, animal health politics in the context of street dogs in India (current postdoctoral research) as well as the complex socio-ecologies of pig farming and salmon aquaculture in Catalonia and Scotland (PhD research; University of Edinburgh, 2024).
My work sits at the intersection of more-than-human geographies and political ecologies.
My research explores multiple nature-society relations through a diversity of cases ranging from industrial animal agriculture to biodiversity conservation
and environmental conflicts.
I currently work as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Human Geography work package of the project Remaking One Health: Decolonial Approaches to Street Dogs and Rabies Prevention in India. The project investigates the persistence of rabies as a public health problem in India. Challenging One Health conceptualizations of street dogs as out-of-place disease vectors, the project's analytical framework of multispecies cultures directs new interdisciplinary attention to the lived experiences of human and nonhuman animal actors.
My doctoral research (University of Edinburgh, 2024) focused on how certain animals - especially those involved in pig farming in Catalonia and salmon aquaculture in Scotland - can be understood as key actors in the national development projects of both countries.
Publications
PhD Thesis
2024. Building Animal Nations: Industrial Animal Agriculture in the Making of Catalonia and Scotland. University of Edinburgh. [Read abstract here]
Journal articles, book chapters, and other academic publications
2026. "Veterinization at the dog-human-health interface: Reconfiguring interspecies relations in India and the United Kingdom". Medical Anthropology, with Krithika Srinivasan and Chris Pearson. [Read here]
2026. "Health as a Multispecies Phenomenon: Towards Anti-Anthropocentrism". Progress in Environmental Geography, with Krithika Srinivasan. [Read here]
2025. "The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology". European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, with Mònica Pons-Hernandez. [Read here]
2025. "Animals that feed nations and nations that feed animals: industrially farmed pigs as nation-building resources in Catalonia". Geoforum. [Read here]
2024. "Animal Geography at its Limits" (Special Issue, co-editor). Scottish Geographical Journal, with Chris Philo and Krithika Srinivasan. [Read here]
2023."Animal Geographies". In Concise
Encyclopedia of Human Geography, with Krithika Srinivasan, edited by
David Demeritt and Loretta Lees. Edward Elgar Publishing. [Read here]
2022. “Methodologies for animal geographies:
approaches within and beyond the human” In Routledge Handbook of
Methodologies in Human Geography, with Krithika Srinivasan, edited by
Rosenberg, Coen and Lovell. Routledge. [Read here]
2022. “Establishing nationhood through
landscapes: the return of the bear to the Catalan Pyrenees” In
Landscape as heritage: critical perspectives, with Karen V. L. Syse,
edited by G. Petennati. Routledge. [Read here]
2019. "The Bear and the Shepherd: Nationalism, Nature Politics and Rural
Development in the Catalan Pyrenees". Universitetet i Oslo. [Read MPhil thesis here].
2024. Srinivasan K., Rubio-Ramon G., Ramp D, Chapple R. "Free-living dogs and public health in India: What are the connections between public debates and everyday people-dog interactions?"
ROH-Indies Working Paper 1, University of Edinburgh; doi: 10.7488/c6569c32-fb07-4754-8dcc-30d2a88f60da
2024. "Hybrid Publics of Human and Other-than-Human Life: Free-Living Dogs and the 'Green' and 'Healthy' City in India". Berliner Gazette.
[Read full article]
2024. "The reinvention of industrial pig farming in Catalonia". RGS Animal Geographies Blog.
[Read full article]
2022. "Después del colapso 🕳️ | Qué nos enseñan DUNE y NAUSICAA". YouTube Collaboration with Alba Lafarga.
[Watch full video]
2022. “¿Cómo miramos la naturaleza?: La princesa Mononoke y la ecología”. YouTube Collaboration with Alba Lafarga.
[Watch full video]
2020. “Who Killed Cachou? Brown Bear’s Unusual Death Ignites
Controversy”. Sentient Media.
[Read full article]
2026, May 15. “The street is their home; and, these homes, their food”: Multispecies commons, free-living dogs, and the making of the green city. TANC (The Apocalypse is Not Coming) Conference. Autonomous University of Barcelona.
2026, January 21. “It's everyone's business”? Pig and salmon life at the frontiers of farm, health, and nation. Presenter at the Un/bordering Animal Health Workshop at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
2025, May 19th. Species Spaces: Multispecies Health Beyond Species-Specific Imaginaries. Invited talk at the University of Edinburgh's One Health Society.
2025, April 28th-29th. Co-organiser of the workshop "Multispecies Health in the City: Going Beyond the Green". University of Edinburgh.
2025, February 12th. Future Fables Workshop. Co-leading a walking and writing workshop for students in the MA in Interdisciplinary Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. With Dr Cameo Marlatt and Dr Shawn Bodden.
2024, June 12th. Foie gras and animal lives: the risk of using care as a ‘frame of reference’ for industrial animal agriculture.
Panellist at the session "Animal Political Ecologies", with Felix Clarke. Political Ecology Network Biannual Conference (POLLEN) 2024, Lund
2024, April 16th. Escaped, wild, and free-living: Nonhuman animals at the limits of nation and species.
Panellist at the session "Animal-State Relations: A Political Geography of Multispecies Nation-Making".
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2024, Honolulu
2023, June 23rd. Invited talk at the Political Ecology Reading Group at the University of Sheffield.
2023, May 10th. Work in progress on African Swine Fever and nation-building imaginaries at the
Bridg’it! European network in the science of food and sustainability workshop. University of Giessen, Germany.
2023, March 23rd. Hog Fevers: Bio(in)security and nationalism in Catalonia's pig industry.
Pannelist at the session "Pig Worlds: Understanding porcine multiplicity in the Anthropocene".
Finnish Antropological Society Conference 2023, University of Lapland - Arctic Centre.
2022, October 8th. Escape the pen, escape the nation: salmon biopolitics in
Scottish aquaculture. ERA 2022: Biopolitics, the Ecology of Humanity, and
the Anthropocene, University College London.
2022, August 25th. Co-organiser of the workshop
"Food, Animals & the Nation". University of Edinburgh.
2021, September 1st. Snouts
on the road: More-than-human nationalism, animal welfare, and the
Catalan pig industry. Panellist at the session
“Reconfiguring farmed animal health and welfare: exploring and
transcending borders between spaces, times, species and knowledge”.
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference.
2021, June 1st. ‘Meating
the Nation’: More-than-human nationalisms in Catalonia and Scotland.
Political Ecology Group seminars, University of Cambridge.
2021, April 12th. Guest lecture on ecological restoration as part
of the course "Development, Environment and Natural Resources" within
IBEI's Master's Programme in International Development.
2021, May 28th. Bio(in)security
and more-than-human nationalism: the case of pig farming in Catalonia. Witnessing
and Worlding Beyond the Human: An Interdisciplinary and Interspecies
Conversation. Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois [Watch presentation]
2021, May 3rd.'Meating the nation': More-than-human nationalism
in Catalonia and Scotand'. PGR Conference: School of Geosciences, University
of Edinburgh. [Watch presentation]
2021, February 25th. Seminar: More than human, less than
State: animal stateless nationalisms in Catalonia and Scotland. Institute
of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of
Barcelona
2019, March 28th. Animal
nationalisms: unbuilding narratives of nationhood and belonging in
biodiversity conservation projects. Bergen International
Student Conference: Towards sustainable futures: facing global
challenges today, University of Bergen.
2018, November 27th. L’ós
bru als Pirineus: consideracions ètiques sobre el programa de
reintroducció Piros Life. Centre for Animal Ethics,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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