Climate change and resource extraction in the Caribbean
My research examines the convergence of extractivism, (post)colonial development, and the climate crisis through a qualitative and spatial lens.
Publications
Feign, Anna. “Late Petro-State Politics: The Struggle for Temporal Hegemony in Guyana.” In Preparation
Feign, Anna. Forthcoming. Review of The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago, by Ryan Jobson. SOULS.
Dr. Marion Fourcade introduces the Social Science Matrix Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Perspectives panel. I presented my paper, “Late Petro-State Politics: The Struggle for Temporal Hegemony in Guyana.” Thanks to Dr. Samera Esmeir for her thought-provoking questions and Andrea Lara-Garcia for her brilliant interventions.
In April 2025, I presented at the Imagining Caribbean Futures Symposium 2025, hosted by the Caribbean Coalition at UC Berkeley.
In my earlier work, I focused on the intersection of the climate crisis and migration in Tuvalu, The Northern Triangle of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), Ethiopia, and Haiti in this report:
Contributing Researcher and Writer, Climate Refugees: The Climate Crisis and Rights Denied. December 2019. Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.