Dr Jared MARGULIES

Assistant Professor, University of Alabama / SSC Cactus and Succulent Plants Specialist Group

I study political ecology, a diverse field of practice interested in the production of environmental inequalities, human-nature relationships, and how matters of social (in)justice intersect with pressing environmental questions. My work draws on diverse scholarship spanning critical human geography, more-than-human geographies, and environmental politics. I apply these frameworks to understand contestations and inequalities produced over and through wildlife management, nature conservation, and wildlife trade. My primary research topics focus on human-wildlife interactions and conflicts in South India, illegal wildlife trade, and geopolitical ecologies of conservation. I am currently writing a book about illicit succulent trade entitled The Succulent Subject: a political ecology of plants, desire, and illicit trade.