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Chaya Ocampo Go

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Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
E-mail: chayago@yorku.ca

Chaya Ocampo Go is a transnational Filipina scholar whose work is a commitment to life and resurgence in ravaged ecologies-communities at the front lines of the climate crisis. She trained as a cultural anthropologist and holds a Masters of Arts in Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice from the University of British Columbia. She has served in a multiple of community development projects advocating for Indigenous peoples’ rights in the Philippines, and coordinated the Secretariat for Task Force Tabang Visayas in response to Super Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan in 2013.

She is currently a PhD student at York University’s Geography Department, and a research fellow for the Citizens’ Disaster Response Centre in the Philippines. Her dissertation is on the political ecology of disaster response in the Philippines.

Keywords: Critical geographies of disasters; political ecology of disaster response; feminist and decolonizing methodologies; social and climate justice

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Different Capitalisms? Variegate... @ Online Event
Feb 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
With: Alexander L.Q. Chen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Anil Shah, Universität Kassel, Germany Moderator: Xiao Alvin Yang, Universität Kassel, Germany/York University, Canada This event is [...]
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