My research explores how Indigenous knowledge systems, gender relations and education shape community responses to environmental and social transformation in North Africa.
My work
My research explores how Indigenous knowledge systems, gender relations and education shape community responses to environmental and social transformation in North Africa. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Morocco, my doctoral research examined how education reshapes aspiration, agency and intergenerational futures in Amazigh communities beyond conventional development metrics.
My current research focuses on how Indigenous communities experience climate change, environmental degradation and political marginalisation, and how these pressures generate new practices of resilience, regeneration and cultural continuity. This work includes projects on community archives as sites of environmental memory, Indigenous climate adaptation in southeast Morocco, and research on post-disaster reconstruction that examines how rebuilding processes affect relationships to land, heritage and governance.
My approach
My approach combines ethnography, oral history and participatory research methods to work collaboratively with communities as partners in knowledge production. I use community archiving, co-produced outputs and interdisciplinary collaboration to document Indigenous knowledge and translate research into teaching, policy and public engagement.
Across my work, I treat Indigenous knowledge not only as cultural heritage but as theory, foregrounding relational understandings of land, care and future-making. By connecting local experience with wider debates in sustainability, development and Indigenous studies, my research seeks to contribute to more socially grounded and culturally responsive approaches to environmental change.
