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Dr Alicia Hayashi Lazzarini

Dr Alicia Hayashi Lazzarini

Lecturer in Human Geography

 3339

 Amory c254

 

Amory Building, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ , UK

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Term 3: By appointment

Overview

I am a human and economic geographer whose research explores contemporary and colonial investment in Africa.  My interdisciplinary research engages geographical and feminist political economy, postcolonial African studies, urban studies, and critical development, race, and labor studies.  I am particularly interested in capitalist dynamics in Portuguese-speaking Africa.

Before joining Geography at the University of Exeter I was a Fellow of Human Geography at the London School of Economics, a Postdoctoral Fellow of Geography at Bucknell University, and a Fulbright Fellow to Mozambique.

Broad research specialisms

  • Investment, resource extraction, and uneven development
  • Colonial and postcolonial Africa
  • Rural-urban transformation
  • Africa-China relations
  • Critical agrarian studies
  • Postcolonial studies and race, class, and gender

Qualifications

PhD in Geography, University of Minnesota
MA in Geography, University of Minnesota
BA in Feminist Studies, University of Washington
BA in English Literature, University of Washington

Research

Research interests

Broadly, my research explores postcolonial investment and resource extraction, spatial productions of race, and Lusophone (Portuguese speaking) African studies. In particular, I investigate contemporary and historical, investment related economic displacement and transformation in Africa. Through this scholarship, I explore how ‘globalized’ capitalist investments shape specific places and environments, and how such dynamics produce sociocultural inequality. Engaging critical ethnographic and archival methods with geographical political economy and postcolonial conceptual frames, I investigate the colonial-racial legacies, and spatial political economies, that shape and limit social and economic possibility today.

My current research agenda explores investment-related sociospatial transformation through a book manuscript on agroindustrial and rural-urban investment, and two interrelated, emergent research themes, on spatial productions of race, and urban change particularly vis-à-vis East Asian investment.

Publications

Key publications | Publications by category | Publications by year

Key publications


Lazzarini AH (2020). Reinvestment, Resource "Rushes," and the Inalienability of Place: Land's Active Layerings in Mozambique. ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS, 110(6), 1969-1992. Author URL.
Lazzarini AH (2017). Gendered Labour, Migratory Labour: Reforming Sugar Regimes in Xinavane, Mozambique. JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES, 43(3), 605-623. Author URL.

Publications by category


Journal articles

Lazzarini AH (2020). Reinvestment, Resource "Rushes," and the Inalienability of Place: Land's Active Layerings in Mozambique. ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS, 110(6), 1969-1992. Author URL.
Lazzarini AH (2017). Gendered Labour, Migratory Labour: Reforming Sugar Regimes in Xinavane, Mozambique. JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES, 43(3), 605-623. Author URL.

Publications by year


2020

Lazzarini AH (2020). Reinvestment, Resource "Rushes," and the Inalienability of Place: Land's Active Layerings in Mozambique. ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS, 110(6), 1969-1992. Author URL.

2017

Lazzarini AH (2017). Gendered Labour, Migratory Labour: Reforming Sugar Regimes in Xinavane, Mozambique. JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES, 43(3), 605-623. Author URL.

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Teaching

Modules

2022/23

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