Indigenous Research Assistants

Roads2SUSTAINABILITY develops a new form of political ecology, infrastructural political ecology. This alters the theoretical work of political ecology (how culture, history and politics make natures), combining contemporary treatments of infrastructure (analyzing how hard infrastructures co-constitute social worlds) with theories of more-than-human assemblage (always changing human/ non‐human relations) and multi-species justice (extending principles of justice beyond humans). These will be led by political ecology’s attentiveness to dynamics of power and scale. Together, this transforms social science debates on infrastructure and political ecology with a new concern for how infrastructure co-constitutes socio-environmental worlds, creating new understanding of how trajectories of co-existence and sustainability materialized. This is critical given accelerating climate change and global commitments to sustainable development.

This will be done with a team of 2 post-doctoral researchers and 16 Indigenous researchers. We are currently recruiting for the first 4 Indigenous researchers now and another 4 in January 2026.