Author profile: Amber Murrey

Amber Murrey is an Associate Professor of Political Geography at the University of Oxford and Associate Editor of The African Geographical Review. Her award-winning scholarship on political ecologies and economies in Central Africa focuses on dissent and resistance amidst racialised extractive violence. Amber is the co-author of Learning Disobedience: Decolonizing Development Studies (2023) and editor of A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara (2018). She posts occasionally on “X” @Amber.Murrey but encourages correspondence via email at amber.murrey-ndewa@ouce.ox.ac.uk.

Abolish International Development: The Militant Anti-Imperial Praxis of Thomas Sankara

Amber Murrey • Oct 17 2023 • Articles

Sankara’s struggle was to fully reconceive the terrain of struggle and its relationship with knowledge, culture, and economy – a kind of decolonial ‘worldmaking’.

A Post/Decolonial Geography beyond ‘the Language of the Mouth’

Amber Murrey • Jun 24 2017 • Articles

Nurturing a political and ethical consciousness attuned to people and relationships is an approach useful for navigating the entangled histories of colonialism.

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