Research

I am interested in a variety of topics pertaining to economic geography, cultural geography, and political economy. My PhD thesis focuses on conceptualizing the role of rural labour in high capital accumulation countries, especially the US and the UK. I critically engage with relevant academic literature in economics, geography, sociology, political science, and cultural theory to develop and historical-theoretical synthesis about the persistence of rural-urban divisions of labour in western capitalist countries.

After my PhD I intend to continue developing a rigorous theoretical framework that can be used to conceptualize the dynamic role of rural labour at different levels of capital accumulation. My goal is ultimately to develop a manuscript that challenges conventional thinking about rural labour and rurality more generally, and which offers a constructive understanding of the persistence of rural labour exploitation within different levels of capitalist development. I also intend to explore the persistence of rural-urban divides through a historical account of capitalist urbanization and the fragmentary tendencies of capital accumulation.

You can find my University of Leeds research profile page here