Research & Writing
Selected publications, essays, and ongoing research on climate governance, systems and cultural practice.
Featured & Current Research
Carbon Afterlives: Carbon Capture Utilisation & Storage (CCUS) and the Temporal Politics of Emissions. (Forthcoming, 2026)
Research examining how carbon capture infrastructures reorganise emissions across time and space, producing “afterlife” conditions where carbon is deferred rather than resolved.
Why do climate change solutions keep bending back into the problem? (2026)
This essay argues that climate responses are shaped within existing systems of governance and infrastructure, producing recurring tensions between mitigation, deferral and structural continuity.
Making the World through Carbon Removal: Scale, Governmentality and Value. (2026)
Examines how carbon removal in the UK operates not as a simple act of atmospheric repair but as a process that reorganises territory, value and political relations, revealing tensions between planetary accounting and national economic priorities.
The Limits of Carbon Governance: Militarisation and the UK’s Response to Ukraine. (2026)
Analyses how military expansion and securitisation expose structural limits in climate governance, showing how territorial carbon accounting obscures emissions embedded in global supply chains and defence systems.
The Limits of Carbon Borders: Toward a Spiral Economy of Climate Governance. (2026)
Critiques border-based climate policies such as the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, proposing a “spiral economy” approach that shifts governance from competition at borders to coordination across global supply chains.
Books & Chapters
Staying the Trouble: Geoengineering, Radical Friendship and Art After Delay. Furtherfield. (Forthcoming, 2026)
Interrogates geoengineering as a form of “compromised care,” situating it within histories of power, delay, and planetary intervention while asking what ethical relations remain possible.
Containers for Ethical Climate Wayfinding. In: Cultures of Climate. University of Huddersfield. Admiss, D. and Chowdhry, M. (2025)
Presents a participatory, arts-based framework for climate adaptation rooted in community knowledge, care practices, and intersectional approaches to food systems.
PIWO (Portalling-With-Others): Wayfinding for Curatorial Ethics in a Climate Emergency. In: Decentring Ethics with AI Art. University of Melbourne. (2025)
Introduces “portalling” as a curatorial method that links internal transformation with collective action in response to climate and social crises.
Making Home: A Proposition for Just Waste Management in the Arts. In: Making Time. Artangel. (2023)
Explores waste infrastructures in the arts, reframing disposal as a relational and political process tied to labour, care and systems of value.
Curating & World-Making. In: Fiction Practice: Prototyping the Otherworldly. Onomatopee. (2019)
Examines curatorial practice as a form of world-building, shaping alternative systems of knowledge, relation and collective imagination.
Selected Essays & Writing
Everyday Adaptations. Arts Catalyst. (2025)
Explores how everyday practices and community-led approaches can reshape climate adaptation through situated, lived knowledge.
Rematerialisation and Care Webs. Institute of Art and Technology / Whitworth Museum. (2023)
Examines relational and care-based approaches in artistic practice, foregrounding networks of interdependence as responses to ecological and social precarity.
Toxicity’s Reach. Sonic Acts. (2022)
Analyses how pollution operates across scales—biological, social, and geopolitical—revealing how “clean-up” projects often reproduce new forms of environmental and social harm.
Prepping for Utopia: A Convoluted Imaginary for a Just Transition. Nome Gallery, Berlin. (2022)
Critically examines green energy transitions, highlighting how renewable infrastructures can reproduce colonial extraction and unequal resource distribution.