My research lies at the intersection of multispecies health, animal geographies and political ecology, looking at the processes through which animal, human, and environmental harms converge. Particularly, I have explored, through qualitative methods, animal health politics in the context of street dogs in India (current postdoctoral research) as well as the complex socio-ecologies of pig farming and salmon aquaculture in Catalonia and Scotland (PhD research; University of Edinburgh, 2024).
My work sits at the intersection of more-than-human geographies and political ecologies.
My research explores multiple nature-society relations through a diversity of cases ranging from industrial animal agriculture to biodiversity conservation
and environmental conflicts.
I currently work as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Human Geography work package of the project Remaking One Health: Decolonial Approaches to Street Dogs and Rabies Prevention in India. The project investigates the persistence of rabies as a public health problem in India. Challenging One Health conceptualizations of street dogs as out-of-place disease vectors, the project's analytical framework of multispecies cultures directs new interdisciplinary attention to the lived experiences of human and nonhuman animal actors.
My doctoral research (University of Edinburgh, 2024) focused on how certain animals - especially those involved in pig farming in Catalonia and salmon aquaculture in Scotland - can be understood as key actors in the national development projects of both countries.
Publications
Journal articles
2026. "Care and the Environmental Politics of Animals as More-Than-Food". Progress in Environmental Geography, with Felix Clarke. [Read here]
2026. "Veterinization at the dog-human-health interface: Reconfiguring interspecies relations in India and the United Kingdom". Medical Anthropology, with Krithika Srinivasan and Chris Pearson. [Read here]
2026. "Health as a Multispecies Phenomenon: Towards Anti-Anthropocentrism". Progress in Environmental Geography, with Krithika Srinivasan. [Read here]
2025. "The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology". European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, with Mònica Pons-Hernandez. [Read here]
2025. "Animals that feed nations and nations that feed animals: industrially farmed pigs as nation-building resources in Catalonia". Geoforum. [Read here]
2024. "Animal Geography at its Limits" (Special Issue, co-editor). Scottish Geographical Journal, with Chris Philo and Krithika Srinivasan. [Read here]
Book chapters and other academic publications
2023."Animal Geographies". In Concise
Encyclopedia of Human Geography, with Krithika Srinivasan, edited by
David Demeritt and Loretta Lees. Edward Elgar Publishing. [Read here]
2022. “Methodologies for animal geographies:
approaches within and beyond the human” In Routledge Handbook of
Methodologies in Human Geography, with Krithika Srinivasan, edited by
Rosenberg, Coen and Lovell. Routledge. [Read here]
2022. “Establishing nationhood through
landscapes: the return of the bear to the Catalan Pyrenees” In
Landscape as heritage: critical perspectives, with Karen V. L. Syse,
edited by G. Petennati. Routledge. [Read here]
2019. "The Bear and the Shepherd: Nationalism, Nature Politics and Rural
Development in the Catalan Pyrenees". Universitetet i Oslo. [Read MPhil thesis here].
PhD Thesis
2024. Building Animal Nations: Industrial Animal Agriculture in the Making of Catalonia and Scotland. University of Edinburgh. [Read abstract here]
2024. Srinivasan K., Rubio-Ramon G., Ramp D, Chapple R. "Free-living dogs and public health in India: What are the connections between public debates and everyday people-dog interactions?"
ROH-Indies Working Paper 1, University of Edinburgh; doi: 10.7488/c6569c32-fb07-4754-8dcc-30d2a88f60da
2024. "Hybrid Publics of Human and Other-than-Human Life: Free-Living Dogs and the 'Green' and 'Healthy' City in India". Berliner Gazette.
[Read full article]
2024. "The reinvention of industrial pig farming in Catalonia". RGS Animal Geographies Blog.
[Read full article]
2022. "Después del colapso 🕳️ | Qué nos enseñan DUNE y NAUSICAA". YouTube Collaboration with Alba Lafarga.
[Watch full video]
2022. “¿Cómo miramos la naturaleza?: La princesa Mononoke y la ecología”. YouTube Collaboration with Alba Lafarga.
[Watch full video]
2020. “Who Killed Cachou? Brown Bear’s Unusual Death Ignites
Controversy”. Sentient Media.
[Read full article]
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