Margherita Lala
After working for nearly ten years in development, I am currently a PhD student at Lancaster University. My research interest lies in anthropology, development and, more recently, climate change. I took an ethnographic approach to the study of the interventions devoted to ‘street’ children in the slums of Nairobi and to analyze adaptation strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa by means of a nine months fieldwork in the ‘Ecovillage’ of Chololo in rural Tanzania. I am particularly interested in the role played by ‘improved’ technologies in practices and discourses of climate change and development and how these are related to issues of fairness at different geographical scales.
