Research
My research explores how socio-ecological transformation unfolds through everyday life, focusing on practices of care, social reproduction, and collective experimentation. Situated within critical geography, political ecology, and feminist theory, my work examines how alternative ways of living are prefigured through ordinary infrastructures — food, work, dwelling, learning, and more-than-human relations — across urban and rural contexts.
Rather than approaching change primarily through policy, technology or institutional reform, I analyse transformation as a process of social recomposition, grounded in embodied, affective and relational practices. Methodologically, my research draws on long-term ethnography, participatory research, and reflexive feminist approaches.
1. Prefigurative Socio-Ecological Transformation and Social Reproduction
A central axis of my research investigates prefigurative politics as a mode of socio-ecological transformation. I examine how grassroots initiatives — including community food spaces, eco-communities, commons-based projects and autonomous collectives — seek to “change the system” not by proposing abstract alternatives, but by reorganising everyday relations of work, care, learning and coexistence.
Building on feminist political economy, autonomous and post-capitalist geographies, I conceptualise transformation as social recomposition: a gradual re-weaving of the social fabric through cooperation, care and endurance. This work foregrounds social reproduction and affective labour as central infrastructures of change, showing how ecological transition depends on how people sustain one another — emotionally, materially and socially — over time.
This research moves beyond a strict urban focus, tracing prefigurative practices across urban, rural and domestic spaces, and attending to their more-than-human dimensions.
2. Power, Privilege and Ambivalence in Alternative Practices
Across my work, I critically engage with the ambivalences of alternative and progressive spaces. While often framed as inclusive or emancipatory, grassroots initiatives are also shaped by relations of power, privilege and exclusion.
Drawing on ethnographic research in community food spaces and socio-ecological projects, I analyse how classed, gendered and racialised inequalities are reproduced, contested or rendered invisible within practices of commoning and care. This includes examining moral economies of responsibility, affective expectations, and the uneven distribution of reproductive labour.
Rather than evaluating initiatives as either “radical” or “co-opted”, my work highlights how ambivalence is structural to prefigurative politics, and how endurance — the capacity to persist through contradiction — becomes a form of political labour.
3. Vegan Geographies and Multispecies Ethics
I am a co-editor of Vegan Geographies (Lantern Publishing & Media, 2022) and the author of Planète Végane. Penser, manger et agir autrement (Marabout, 2017). My research in this area approaches veganism as a spatial, ethical and political practice, embedded in broader socio-ecological relations rather than as an individual lifestyle choice.
This strand of my work examines how vegan and antispeciesist practices intersect with questions of care, labour, commoning and environmental responsibility, and how they challenge dominant human–nature dualisms. It contributes to debates in critical animal studies, political ecology, and feminist ethics of care, with a particular interest in multispecies coexistence and post-speciesist imaginaries.
4. Urban Divisions, Neoliberalism and Resistance
My earlier research focused on urban divisions as dynamic political processes, based on extensive fieldwork in Skopje. This work introduced the concept of the “dividing city” to analyse how political narratives, redevelopment strategies and everyday practices actively produce — but also contest — urban division.
While empirically grounded in post-socialist urban contexts, this research continues to inform my broader interest in power, spatial inequality and resistance, particularly under neoliberal restructuring.
5. Emerging Research: Care, Embodiment and Matrescence
My current and emerging research extends my long-standing interest in care and social reproduction towards questions of embodiment, matrescence and situated knowledge production.
This work explores pregnancy, motherhood and post-partum as spatio-temporal and affective transformations, and examines how maternal experience reshapes relations to space, time, work and knowledge — including within academic life itself. Drawing on feminist geography and autoethnographic methods, this research investigates how embodied transitions become sites of political and epistemic reconfiguration.
