Concordia Ethnography Lab
Melina Campos Ortiz is a Ph.D. student in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University. Drawing from feminist Science and Technology Studies and creative ethnographic practices, she seeks to explore the (affective) entanglements between soil and migration. Melina is the coordinator for EMERGE (formerly known as Infrastructures of Ethnography) and has been involved in the project since its inception. Melina is an active member of the Concordia Ethnography Lab, where she has served as the coordinator, participated in different research projects and supported the development of its blog as a writer and curator.
Camila Patino Sanchez (she/her)
Camila Patiño Sanchez is a Ph.D. student in Social and Cultural Analysis at Concordia University and M.Sc. in Geography from the Université de Montréal. She is interested in water and energy infrastructures in Canada and Colombia, from Science and Technology Studies and Political Ecology. For her Ph.D. she is studying the articulation of energy sovereignty discourses with the politics of energy transition, by analyzing the informal infrastructures of electricity in rural and peri-urban areas in Colombia. She is also a member of the Concordia Ethnography Lab in the Montreal Waterways project, in which she participates in other research projects on the politics of water and green infrastructures in Montreal in partnership with the INRS, and the geopolitical history of hydropower in Quebec in the Department of Geography in the Université de Montréal.
Carlos Olaya Díaz (he/him)
Carlos Olaya Díaz is Ph.D. student at the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia. He is a lawyer with experience in anthropological research, who have been working for 10 years alongside rural communities in the agrarian frontiers of Colombia, around land rights, co-management of protected areas and anti-deforestation policies. His current research is about the affects and political technologies of monocrop farming, in the rice farms of his hometown. He is a research assistant at the Concordia Ethnography Lab, within the Infrastructures of Ethnography project.
Isabelle Boucher (she/her)
Isabelle Boucher (MA in Philosophy) is a PhD student in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Situated at the intersection of feminist STS, energy humanities, and political ecology, her research project examines the grammars of energy, and more specifically, how they inform the narratives, the policies, and the infrastructures of sustainability frameworks. By considering the triangulation of language, knowledge, and power through their colonial and extractive histories, she highlights the critical intersection of environmental and social justice issues and argues for the importance of epistemic justice at the heart of decolonial energy imaginaries.
Isabelle Boucher (she/her)
Isabelle Boucher (MA in Philosophy) is a PhD student in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Situated at the intersection of feminist STS, energy humanities, and political ecology, her research project examines the grammars of energy, and more specifically, how they inform the narratives, the policies, and the infrastructures of sustainability frameworks. By considering the triangulation of language, knowledge, and power through their colonial and extractive histories, she highlights the critical intersection of environmental and social justice issues and argues for the importance of epistemic justice at the heart of decolonial energy imaginaries.
Isabelle Boucher (she/her)
Isabelle Boucher (MA in Philosophy) is a PhD student in Communication Studies at Concordia University. Situated at the intersection of feminist STS, energy humanities, and political ecology, her research project examines the grammars of energy, and more specifically, how they inform the narratives, the policies, and the infrastructures of sustainability frameworks. By considering the triangulation of language, knowledge, and power through their colonial and extractive histories, she highlights the critical intersection of environmental and social justice issues and argues for the importance of epistemic justice at the heart of decolonial energy imaginaries.
