Joshua Lewis

Joshua Lewis is defending his thesis at Stockholm Resilience Centre , Stockholm University. Joshua has worked in the Formas funded KTH project Socioecological Movements in Urban Ecosystems (MOVE) lead by KTH researcher Dr. who also served as main supervisor of the thesis. The MOVE project, hosted at the , has done comparative work between New Orleans and Cape Town developing findings on how class, race and urban ecology are intertwined using interdisciplinary methods. 

Building on archival work, interviews but also collaboration with ecologists, Joshua has traced how the infrastructure for water, flooding and profit-making through trade has shaped powerful ecological dynamics in the Louisiana delta and how this in turn has also shaped political and social dynamics and modes of contestation. The thesis contributes new departure points for how interpret New Orleans and its 10th anniversary after Hurricane Katrina. It also provides a novel way to understand the political ecology of maritime transportation that links "local" and "global" scales. Read more about the MOVE project here and the press release from Stockholm University here . Joshua Lewis is now working at the Division of History at KTH.

Thesis Title: Deltaic Dilemmas: Ecologies of Infrastructure in New Orleans

Opponent: Nik Heynen, Dept. of Geography, University of Georgia

Committee:
Ove Eriksson - Stockholm University
Andrea Nightingale - SLU
Richard Walker - University of California - Berkeley

Supervisors:
- KTH
- KTH
Thomas Elmqvist - SRC

Chair:
Magnus Nyström