معرفی
Maan Barua is a University Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, specializing in interdisciplinary research that bridges posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy. His work engages ethnographic and visual methodologies to explore urbanization, plantation systems, biocapital, and metabolic processes.
- Education: DPhil in Geography (University of Oxford), MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management (University of Oxford), BSc in Zoology (Dibrugarh University)
Research Trends: Focuses on urban ecologies, nonhuman life governance, and the political dimensions of biocapital. His recent publications include two monographs that examine amphibious urbanism and plantation economies.
Scientific Awards:
- Philip Leverhulme Prize (2022)
As Principal Investigator for the ERC Horizon 2020 Starting Grant project Urban Ecologies: governing nonhuman life in global cities, he advances critical theories at the intersection of natural and social sciences.
