Julyan Levy

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I came to academia late in life following 20 years in the catering industry as a chef/cook.

My research background is in anthropology and geography.
I am interested in how we deconstruct colonial capitalism and human exceptionalism.

Both my degrees used ethnography in their dissertations. My undergraduate was on Low-impact Development and my masters was on the human-cannabis relationship across scale, from the bio-molecular to the agroecological.

I am now on a PhD at the Centre for Creative Economies, Coventry University researching plant agency (the ability of plants to shape worlds) and their role in diverse economies. Prior to this I trained and worked as a secondary geography teacher for 5 years.

As a member of The Green Party drug policy working group I campaign to allow homegrown cannabis for medicinal and recreational use.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    PhD researcher, Coventry University

Education

  • 2020 
    Bath Spa University, PGCE - secondary geography
  • 2016 
    University of Exeter, MRes critical human geographies
  • 2015 
    University of Exeter, BA (Hons). anthropology and sustainability

Publications

  • 2018
    Humans in the landscape: Low-impact Development as a response to the neoliberal environmental agenda, The Right to Nature: Social Movements, Environmental Justice and Neoliberal Natures

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