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Dr. Geoff Goodwin is a Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Leeds, School of Politics and International Studies. He holds a PhD from University College London and an MA in Economics from the University of Leeds. His research focuses on socioenvironmental change, political economy, and infrastructure in Latin America, with a particular emphasis on water, land, and Indigenous movements in Ecuador and Colombia. He co-directs the Centre for Global Development and serves as Deputy Director for Internationalisation. His interdisciplinary work integrates political economy theory with historical analysis, often engaging with Karl Polanyi’s concepts. He is an active member of water@leeds and collaborates on projects in Kolkata, India.
Education: PhD in Political Economy (UCL), MA in Economics (Leeds).
Research interests include the political economy of water and land, capitalism critique, and the history of Latin America. His work explores how communities resist commodification through grassroots organizing, as seen in his studies of Indigenous water governance in Ecuador. He has expanded his research to include water politics in Bogotá and London, critically examining neoliberal policies and public infrastructure.
He is an Editor at Radical Americas and Associate Editor at Oxford Development Studies. Current postgraduate students under his supervision focus on water/rivers, land/food, environment, infrastructure, social movements, and capitalism. Recent grants include a British Academy Small Research Grant for Latin American infrastructure studies.
Collaborations include projects on Kolkata’s drinking fountains and co-editing a book on Latin American infrastructures. His theoretical contributions challenge conventional capitalist frameworks and bridge North-South scholarly dialogues.
