Profile

I am a PhD candidate in sociology at Brown University in the United States, and I look at multinational corporations, global wealth inequality and climate change. Global wealth inequalities and climate obstruction are linked. Inequalities can throw up obstacles to climate action in that they can inhibit collaboration between countries, and provide different incentives in Global North and South to stop or delay climate action. My dissertation research follows one multinational corporation, and how it has negotiated with the state in the Netherlands and in Curaçao – constituent countries of the Dutch Kingdom with very different but interlinked economies – around historical environmental policy-making. How do their approaches to environmental policies differ in the two areas across time? I am thus interested in long-term historical political, economic and environmental processes, and I use archival methods to do this work.