Dr Jessica Hope
Lecturer in Sustainable Development
Research areas
I am a political ecologist who extends political ecology’s concern for environmental justice with geographical treatments of infrastructure and materiality. My current project investigates how new roads in the Amazon change environmental knowledges and politics, using these roads as a new conceptual entry point for understanding the global sustainable development project.
Completed projects investigated the early-take of the SDGs in Bolivia (a place where there are both intensifying commitments to resource extraction and radical alternatives) and the political ecology of post-neoliberalism in Bolivia (specifically, the TIPNIS).
I was previously a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship at the University of Bristol, Lecturer at the University of Cambridge & Teaching Fellow at UCL. I was awarded my PhD in 2015 from the Global Development Institute (GDI), University of Manchester, where I was supervised by Prof Dan Brockington & Dr Tanja Bastia
Within the School of Geography & Sustainable Development I am:
Deputy Director of the Sustainable Development Masters
Co-chair of EDI (with Dr Michael Simpson)
Co-lead of GOSSIP with Prof Jo Sharp, Dr Ife Okafor-Yarwood & Dr Mike Simpson
The Human Geography Representative for the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
Outside of St Andrews I am:
Associate Editor at Geoforum
A member of the new Editorial Board for Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
PhD supervision
- Alejandra Pizarro Choy
- Stacia Carrington
Selected publications
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Care for Transactions
Bailey, A., Breines, M., Emmerson, P., Esson, J., Halvorsen, S., Hope, J., Joronen, M., Koh, S. Y., Krishnan, S., Lai, K., McFarlane, C., McLean, J., Reid, L. A. & Sparke, M., 1 Mar 2023, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 48, 1, p. 2-8 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Critiquing sustainable development as materially constituted: infrastructure, political ecology, and political ontology in the Amazon
Hope, J., 1 Dec 2022, In: Journal of Latin American Geography. 21, 3, p. 188-214 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Driving development in the Amazon: extending infrastructural citizenship with political ecology in Bolivia
Hope, J., 1 Jun 2022, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 5, 2, p. 520-542 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Infrastructure and Latin American environmental geographies: an introduction to our special issue
Hope, J. C. & Arsel, M., 1 Dec 2022, In: Journal of Latin American Geography. 21, 3, p. 8-21 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Open access
Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare: revisiting Muddy Glee
Bastia, T., Hope, J., Jenkins, K., Lemanski, C., Meth, P., Moeller, N. & Williams, G., 17 Oct 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Area. Early View, 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Conservation in the Pluriverse: Anti-capitalist struggle, knowledge from resistance and the ‘repoliticisation of nature’ in the TIPNIS, Bolivia
Hope, J., 22 May 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geoforum.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Contemporary political ecologies of hydropower: insights from Bolivia and Brazil
Atkins, E. & Hope, J., 11 Apr 2021, In: Journal of Political Ecology. 28, 1, p. 246-265 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Shifts to global development: is this a reframing of power, agency and progress?
Hope, J., Freeman, C., Maclean, K., Pande, R. & Sou, G., 1 Nov 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Area. Early ViewResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
The anti-politics of sustainable development: environmental critique from assemblage thinking in Bolivia
Hope, J., Mar 2021, In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 46, 1, p. 208-222 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Childcare and academia: an intervention
Hope, J., Lemanski, C., Bastia, T., Moeller, N., Meth, P. & Williams, G., 2 Jan 2020, In: International Development Planning Review. 42, 4, p. 391-405 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review