Marieme Lo

Biography

Prof. Marieme Lo’s research spans The political economy of gender and development, development,  the human and political ecology of environmental change and disaster in Africa Social learning, poverty, intersectional vulnerabilities, and livelihood systems Informal economies (spatial and translocal re-configurations) and neoliberalism Female entrepreneurship,  trade,  artisanal  production, and economie solidaire Material culture  and  cultural economies Conjugality Governementality,  intersectionality, critical race,  class, gender,  and citizenship in migration studies Globalization, transnationalism, diasporic spaces and  social networks, and social ethics; African StudiesThese inquiries are located in critical, feminist, epistemic, and discursive frameworks and debates, the quest for alternative epistemologies and paradigms, and the commitment to social change and social justice.

Research Interest

African studies, Critical development studies, Diasporic spaces, Environmental Change, Female entrepreneurship, Feminist Political Economy of Gender and Development, Informal economies, Material Culture, Migration, Resource Extraction, Social learning, Transnationalism, Vulnerability and Livelihood Studies