Thomas Bobo
Thomas Bobo is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). His research focuses on the intersection of internal violent conflicts and the environment from a political and discursive perspective. Before starting his doctoral research, he worked in international biodiversity governance at the French Agency for International Technical Cooperation. Thomas is particularly interested in the construction of competing ecological visions and how they become vehicles of power struggles between actors in conflict. He explores how those ecological discourses emerge, evolve and are utilised in the context of the rise of environmental issues in the international, national and local political agendas. Thomas‘s current research focuses on the Zapatista conflict in the State of Chiapas (Mexico).
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Environmental discourse in Chiapas, Mexico, and more broadly in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East