Meredith DeBoom

Areas of interest: political geography, natural resources
Faculty advisor: John O'Loughlin

M.A. Thesis Title: Namibian Resources for Namibians? Politics and Geopolitics of Foreign Investment in Namibia's Extractive Industries

PhD Dissertation Title: Developmental Fusion: Chinese Investment, Resource Nationalism, and the Distributive Politics of Uranium Mining in Namibia

Research Interests:

African Studies, BRICS and Emerging Economies, Critical Geopolitics, Development Studies, Extractive Industries and Society, Inequality, Mixed Methods, Resource Governance and Policy, Political Ecology, Political Geography, State-Building and Nationalism, Southern Africa

Skills and Expertise:

ArcGIS, Dedoose, NVivo, R, SPSS