Research & Writing
Selected publications, essays, and ongoing research on climate governance, systems and cultural practice.
Featured & Current Research
Carbon Afterlives (Book project, Forthcoming)
Carbon Afterlives is an interdisciplinary research, writing and artistic inquiry exploring what happens when carbon does not disappear, but persists through the infrastructures, landscapes, institutions and everyday practices of climate transition.
Bringing together climate governance, political ecology, environmental justice and creative research, the project examines how net zero pathways reorganise carbon across systems of storage, offsetting, extraction, accounting and atmospheric management. It explores where carbon goes, who becomes responsible for managing it, and how the benefits and burdens of transition are distributed across different places, communities and futures.
Moving between carbon capture infrastructures, offset markets, energy systems, extraction frontiers and everyday forms of climate adaptation, Carbon Afterlives traces the social, material and imaginative worlds emerging around carbon management. It explores how contemporary climate politics increasingly operates through processes of relocation, containment and deferral, creating new infrastructures of care, responsibility, risk and stewardship.
Combining critical research with storytelling, public engagement and creative practice, Carbon Afterlives seeks to make visible the hidden consequences of climate transition and create new ways of collectively sensing, understanding and imagining more just environmental futures.
Why do climate change solutions keep bending back into the problem? (2026)
Essay exploring how climate responses are shaped within existing systems of governance, infrastructure and economic continuity, producing recurring tensions between mitigation, deferral and structural persistence.
Making the World through Carbon Removal: Scale, Governmentality and Value. (2026)
Research examining how carbon removal in the UK operates not simply as atmospheric repair, but as a process that reorganises territory, value and political relations. The project explores tensions between planetary climate accounting and national economic priorities.
Carbon Governance: Militarisation and the Politics of Security. (2026)
Research analysing how military expansion and securitisation expose structural contradictions within climate governance, particularly where territorial accounting frameworks obscure emissions embedded within global supply chains and defence infrastructures.
Beyond Carbon Borders: Toward a Spiral Economy of Climate Governance. (2026)
Research critiquing border-based climate mechanisms such as the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), proposing instead a relational “spiral economy” approach focused on coordination, interdependence and responsibility 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.