Dr Natasha L. Cornea PhD

Dr Natasha L. Cornea

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor in Human Geography

Contact details

Email
n.l.cornea@bham.ac.uk
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Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Natasha Cornea’s research sits at the intersections of urban and development geographies, focusing on urban environmental governance and politics in Indian and Zambian cities. Conceptually her research draws on post-structuralist and situated approaches to urban political ecology, the everyday state and everyday governance.

Dr Natasha Cornea is part of the Birmingham Plastics Network, an interdisciplinary team of more than 40 academics working together to shape the fate and sustainable future of plastics.  This unique team brings together chemists, environmental scientists, philosophers, linguists, economists, and experts in many other fields, to holistically address the global plastics problem.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Geography (University of Lausanne, 2016) 
  • MA Social Development (University of Sussex, 2011) 
  • BA(hons) International Studies, minor in Economics (University of Regina, 2010) 

Biography

Dr Cornea joined the School of Geography,听Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University 麻豆精选 in February 2018 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. Prior to听coming to听Birmingham,听she was a Swiss National Science Foundation funded Visiting Research Fellow at University College London. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).听听

Teaching

Dr Cornea contributes to the following modules: 

Undergraduate 

  • 2nd Year fieldtrip to Berlin 

Postgraduate 

  • 406 Geopolitics and Globalisation  

Postgraduate supervision

Everyday governance, urban political ecology, South Asian cities, urban environmental politics

Research

Dr Natasha Cornea鈥檚 research sits at the intersections of urban and development geographies, focussing on urban environmental governance and urban politics, primarily in South Asian cities. She is particularly interested in everyday practices and the actually-existing city.听 Conceptually her research draws on post-structuralist听and situated听approaches to urban political ecology, the everyday state and everyday governance.听听

Publications

Recent publications

Article

V茅ron, R, Zimmer, A, Cornea, N & Sanchez, J 2024, '', Journal of South Asian Development, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 325-344.

Palat Narayanan, N & Cornea, N 2024, '', Cultural Geographies, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 473-486.

Lawhon, M, Follmann, A, Braun, B, Cornea, N, Greiner, C, Guma, P, Karpouzoglou, T, Schindler, S, Schramm, S, Sielker, F, Tups, G, Vij, S, Dannenberg, P & Revilla Diez, J 2023, '', Futures.

Cornea, N 2023, '', Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.

Chitewere, T, Cornea, NL, Lockyer, J, Macrorie, R, Mal媒 Bla啪ek, J, Nelson, A & Pickrill, J 2023, '', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Truelove, Y & Cornea, N 2021, '', Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 231-246.

Cornea, NL 2020, '', Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 38, no. 2.

V茅ron, R, Zimmer, A & Cornea, NL 2018, '', Urbia, vol. 21, pp. 89-108.

Cornea, N, V茅ron, R & Zimmer, A 2017, '', Environment and Planning A, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 728-744.

Cornea, NL, V茅ron, R & Zimmer, A 2017, '', Geography Compass, vol. 11, no. 4, e12310.

Zimmer, A, Cornea, N & V茅ron, R 2017, '', Local Environment, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 49-66.

Zimmer, A & Cornea, N 2016, '', South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, vol. 14. <>

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Cornea, NL 2019, . in Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press.

Chapter

Zimmer, A, Cornea, NL & V茅ron, R 2017, . in D Iossifova, C Doll & A Gasparatos (eds), Defining the Urban: Interdisciplinary and Professional Perspectives. Routledge, London & New York, pp. 212-222.

Other contribution

Cornea, NL, Lynch, I & Krause, S 2021, . University 麻豆精选. </news/thebirminghambrief/items/2021/july/getting-a-grip-on-the-uks-plastic-recycling-crisis-.aspx>