Lorenza Fontana

I am a politics scholar with highly multidisciplinary interests and a commitment to tackling issues of social justice and human rights in the Global South. My research has addressed questions around ethnic politics of land and socio-environmental conflicts, exploring the complexity and justice dilemmas around the redistributive effects of recognition politics and cultural rights. I am currently developing a research agenda on wildfire politics and I am brodly interested in questions around land politics and its redistributive and social justice implications for vulnerable social groups, particulary indigenoius and peasant communities in the Global South. I have also worked on the post-2015 development agenda and the challenges of fostering engagement from the Global South within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). My work is highly multidisciplinary, drawing from comparative politics and international relations, sociological approaches to collective action, and critical development theories. Although I am trained as a qualitative social scientist, I have strived to develop innovative mix-method approaches ranging from Co-design/Co-production & Transdisciplinarity and community theatre to quantitative methods and statistical analysis. Geographically, I have been working mainly in the Andean region of Latin America (Bolivia, Peru, Colombia), but I am interested to develop a transnational comparative research agenda including countries in Sub Saharian Africa and South East Asia.