Lisa Tilley

Dr. Lisa Tilley is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS University of London, where she serves as Convenor for the MSc Environment, Politics & Development program. She joined SOAS in 2021 after previous roles at the University of Warwick, Queen Mary University of London, and Birkbeck.

• Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
• Convenor: MSc Environment, Politics & Development
• Coordinator: London Political Ecology Collective

Lisa Tilley’s research bridges critical political ecology, political economy, and decolonial theory, with a focus on socioecological harm, extractivism, and the intersections of race, gender, and class in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Her work interrogates colonial and capitalist structures in resource frontiers like plantations, mines, and cities.

Her recent publications explore themes such as:

• Neoliberal racial capitalism and its ecological consequences
• Anti-racist climate justice frameworks
• Colonial legacies in resource extraction
• Indigenous protective ontologies
• Gendered dimensions of urban evictions
• Planetary political economy of the Global Majority

Lisa supervises PhD students researching topics including labor regimes, water politics, racial capitalism, and settler colonial territoriality.