Dr Natasha L. Cornea PhD

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor in Human Geography

Contact details

Email: n.l.cornea@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @NatashaCornea

Address: School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Natasha Cornea’s research sits at the intersections of urban and development geographies, focusing on urban environmental governance and politics in Indian and Zambian cities. Conceptually her research draws on post-structuralist and situated approaches to urban political ecology, the everyday state and everyday governance.

Dr Natasha Cornea is part of the Birmingham Plastics Network, an interdisciplinary team of more than 40 academics working together to shape the fate and sustainable future of plastics. This unique team brings together chemists, environmental scientists, philosophers, linguists, economists, and experts in many other fields, to holistically address the global plastics problem.

Qualifications

PhD in Geography (University of Lausanne, 2016)
MA Social Development (University of Sussex, 2011)
BA(hons) International Studies, minor in Economics (University of Regina, 2010)

Biography

Dr Cornea joined the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham in February 2018 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. Prior to coming to Birmingham, she was a Swiss National Science Foundation funded Visiting Research Fellow at University College London. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).

Teaching

Dr Cornea contributes to the following modules:

Undergraduate

2^nd Year fieldtrip to Berlin

Postgraduate

406 Geopolitics and Globalisation

Postgraduate supervision

Everyday governance, urban political ecology, South Asian cities, urban environmental politics

Research

Dr Natasha Cornea’s research sits at the intersections of urban and development geographies, focussing on urban environmental governance and urban politics, primarily in South Asian cities. She is particularly interested in everyday practices and the actually-existing city. Conceptually her research draws on post-structuralist and situated approaches to urban political ecology, the everyday state and everyday governance.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Véron, R, Zimmer, A, Cornea, N & Sanchez, J 2024, 'Environmental Governance in Small Cities: Decentralization, Municipal Capacity and Autonomy in Gujarat and West Bengal', Journal of South Asian Development, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 325-344. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741241228359

Palat Narayanan, N & Cornea, N 2024, 'How many Kirulapana Canals are there in Colombo? Reading everyday imageries and imaginations using southern theory', Cultural Geographies, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 473-486. https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241230697

Lawhon, M, Follmann, A, Braun, B, Cornea, N, Greiner, C, Guma, P, Karpouzoglou, T, Schindler, S, Schramm, S, Sielker, F, Tups, G, Vij, S, Dannenberg, P & Revilla Diez, J 2023, 'Making Heterogeneous Infrastructure Futures in and Beyond the Global South', Futures. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103270

Cornea, N 2023, 'Seeing the state in waste? Exploring the everyday state and imagined state performance in Lusaka's lower income settlements', Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12513

Chitewere, T, Cornea, NL, Lockyer, J, Macrorie, R, Malý Blažek, J, Nelson, A & Pickrill, J 2023, 'Urban Ecological Futures: Five Eco-Community Strategies for more Sustainable and Equitable Cities ', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13209

Truelove, Y & Cornea, N 2021, 'Rethinking urban environmental and infrastructural governance in the everyday: perspectives from and of the global South', Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 231-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420972117

Cornea, NL 2020, 'Territorialising control in urban West Bengal: social clubs and everyday governance in the spaces between state and party', Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 38, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419865753

Véron, R, Zimmer, A & Cornea, NL 2018, 'Écologies (politiques) urbaines des étendues d'eau en Inde', Urbia, vol. 21, pp. 89-108.

Cornea, N, Véron, R & Zimmer, A 2017, 'Clean city politics: An urban political ecology of solid waste in West Bengal, India', Environment and Planning A, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 728-744. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16682028

Cornea, NL, Véron, R & Zimmer, A 2017, 'Everyday governance and urban environments: Towards a more interdisciplinary urban political ecology', Geography Compass, vol. 11, no. 4, e12310. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12310

Zimmer, A, Cornea, N & Véron, R 2017, 'Of parks and politics: the production of socio-nature in a Gujarati town', Local Environment, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 49-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2016.1157157

Zimmer, A & Cornea, N 2016, 'Introduction. Environmental Politics in Urban India', South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, vol. 14. <http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4247>

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Cornea, NL 2019, Urban Political Ecology. in Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199874002-0203

Chapter

Zimmer, A, Cornea, NL & Véron, R 2017, Urban Political Ecology: Landscapes of Power. in D Iossifova, C Doll & A Gasparatos (eds), Defining the Urban: Interdisciplinary and Professional Perspectives. Routledge, London & New York, pp. 212-222.

Other contribution

Cornea, NL, Lynch, I & Krause, S 2021, Getting a grip on the UKs plastic recycling crisis - alternatives to shipping the problem overseas. University of Birmingham. <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/thebirminghambrief/items/2021/july/getting-a-grip-on-the-uks-plastic-recycling-crisis-.aspx>

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