Dr. Bernadette Resurrección

Biography

Bernadette P. Resurrección is a Professor and a Queen's National Scholar in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen's University. With over twenty years of experience in environmental and development research, she focuses on gender, equity, and environmental change intersections. Her work explores issues of social and environmental justice, particularly in agriculture, water governance, rural-urban livelihoods, climate change adaptation, and disaster response in Southeast Asia. By applying a feminist political ecology perspective, she studies how power influences development policies that are shaped by real-world experiences. Resurrección invites students interested in exploring critical and grounded approaches to questions of gender, intersectionality, and climate change. She supervises master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral projects that examine the nexus of feminist political ecology and the decolonial aspects of critical development studies. Her research critically addresses climate change solutions, sustainable development, and the often-overlooked impacts of slow violence and resource extraction on marginalized communities. With a strong commitment to bridging theory and practice, she encourages students to engage in socially responsible scholarship that fosters creativity and critical thinking.

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