Spring 2021 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, development sociology
Delilah Griswold is a Ph.D. Candidate in development sociology. She is broadly interested in the spatial reverberations of climate change politics as they occur through comingled processes of land occupation, state formation, and collective action. Her dissertation centers on multi-modal ethnography to understand how current practices of climate adaptation inflect historic patterns of struggle and present efforts for livelihood autonomy and access to urban space in Suva, Fiji. This work builds from her interdisciplinary training in social and environmental science, land use law and policy, and the anthropology of Oceania.