Paige Patchin

Academic position: Lecturer in Race and Postcolonial Studies

Department: Sarah Parker Remond Centre

Biography:

Paige Patchin is a feminist geographer whose work looks at structures of power in biological, health, environmental, and earth sciences. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of British Columbia and is currently based at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre at UCL. Her forthcoming book Love in the Time of Zika: Climate Crisis and the Future of Reproduction reappraises the politics of reproductive health and reproduction as the planet heats up. Other current research areas include the history of genetics; the futures of eugenic thought; philosophies of nature; the sustainable energy transition and Anthropocene; oil; and new nativisms and nationalisms.

Research Projects:

In addition to the book on the future of reproduction, I have begun some work on the health politics of oil drilling.

Teaching:

CMII 0143 Politics of Health