Beatriz Arnal Calvo

I studied Philosophy long ago. I was once a humanitarian worker in contexts of armed conflict and forced displacement. I am now a PhD researcher at the School of Humanities, University of Brighton. 

My research project explores the intersections of feminist peace research, feminist political ecology, environmental peacebuilding and decolonial feminisms. I look at the nexus conflict-women-nature-peace-memory through two main conceptual frameworks: the continuum territory-body and the conflict capital-life as framed in feminismos territoriales from Latin America as well as other feminisms that explore the linkages between environmental justice, gender justice and peacebuilding in contexts of (post)colonial war and occupation. To do so, I depart from women’s everyday praxes of peace and resistance to gender and environmental military and extractive violence. 

My areas of interest are the gender and environmental impacts of armed conflict, military industries and extractives as well as women’s everyday praxes of resistance and peacebuilding as life-nature-territory defenders and artists, particularly in the Northwest of Africa.