The Research Team in South Africa:

Dr Shari Daya: Shari is a Cultural Geographer. Her theoretical work focuses on questions of modernity and identity in the global South – particularly Africa and India. Shari is interested to understand how modernity is not just talked and written about, but embodied, enacted and otherwise materialised in everyday life. To this end, Shari explores how people imagine and participate in different economic systems, including formal capitalist markets, informal trading, ‘green’ and alternative economies such as cooperatives and the Fair Trade movement, and creative industries.

Prof. Cheryl McEwan: Cheryl’s research interests are focused around the intersections between cultural, political and development geographies. At a conceptual level, her work has sought to explore the productive tensions between postcolonial and other radical approaches within geography. These theoretical concerns are grounded in empirical research in South Africa and the UK.

Dr Kim Coetzee: Kim is in the field of Global Environmental Governance, and is interested in the overlap between the trade and climate change regimes.