Juanita Sundberg
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Dr. Juanita Sundberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Her research brings the insights of feminist political ecology and the sensibilities of ethnography to bear on the politics of nature. Dr. Sundberg’s work seeks to foster conversations between more-than-human geographies, critical Indigenous studies, and critical theories of race and ableism in relation to climate change and extinction in settler colonial societies in the Americas. Dr. Sundberg is working to complete a book manuscript tentatively titled Cat Fights on the Río & Diabolic Caminos in the Desert: the nature of geopolitics in the United States-Mexico borderlands. A new collaborative project with Leticia Durand, UNAM, centers on vegetal politics with a focus on how sargassum intervenes in political ecologies on the Riviera Maya. Dr. Sundberg’s research has been funded by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council and she has published in a range of journals including the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Antipode, Environment and Planning D: Society & Space, Political Geography, Social & Cultural Geography, and Gender, Place, and Culture.