Dr. Jaskiran Chohan

Biography

Jaskiran Chohan is a political ecologist with an interdisciplinary background in social sciences. Her research focuses on peasant agriculture, agroecology, food systems, decolonisation, and sustainable development in Latin America. She earned her PhD in Development Studies from the Institute of the Americas at UCL, where her dissertation investigated the contestation of industrial farming practices through agroecology in Zonas de Reserva Campesino in Colombia. Jaskiran's fieldwork has included ethnographic interviews with various stakeholders including campesinos, academics, civil servants, and politicians. In addition to her academic pursuits, she has contributed to the POR EL Páramo project in Colombia, exploring the conservation-livelihood tensions faced by campesinos in the Boyacá Páramo region. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol, engaged in teaching and researching topics such as political ecology, coloniality, decolonisation, and gender in relation to rurality. Jaskiran leads the project 'Peasant Popular Feminism: Co-constructing Sustainability Peace,' which aims to understand and promote feminist frameworks in the context of rural Latin America. Her research interests also include decolonising food systems, radical conservation approaches, and campesino feminism.

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