Associate Professor in Human Geography – Northumbria University (Scotland)
Research fields : Spanish Literature/Politics and gender/Western Sahara/Equatorial Guinea/Colonization and Decolonization
Languages : English, Spanish
Contact : joanna.allan@northumbria.ac.uk
Joanna Allan is an Associate Professor in Human Geography at Northumbria University. Her research focuses on resistance to neocolonial natural resource exploitation, histories of women’s anti-colonial resistance movements, Saharawi and Equatoguinean (resistance) literatures, environmental justice, and the relationship between energy and culture. Her main publications include Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara (West Virginia Press, 2024), and Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea (Wisconsin University Press, 2019).
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