Professor Levi Gahman PhD (Interdisciplinary); MA (Dist.); BA (Hons); BSc (Summa Cum Laude); FHEA
Professor of Emancipatory Politics & Environmental Conflict Geography and Planning
- Work email Levi.Gahman@liverpool.ac.uk
- Personal WebsitePower, Space, and Cultural Change
Research
Research Overview
Our work spans multiple disciplines and seeks to advance community health, environmental justice, and social transformation through creative arts and participatory methods defined by convivial co-design, accompaniment, and shared authorship. To date, I have been PI and managed a wide array of initiatives across the Caribbean and Central America that have received funding from the AHRC, NERC, EPSRC, SSHRC, ISPF, British Academy, Antipode Foundation, International Social Research Foundation, Federation of Post-Secondary Educators, University of West Indies CRPF, and UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund.
Emancipatory Politics and Movement-Relevant Research
My purpose here is to find out how communities are working together to build what the Zapatistas call "A World in which Many Worlds Fit" by placing dignity and mutuality at the heart of their social relations. The goal is to gain insight into the ways in which social movements are breathing life into alternative futures via praxis whilst animating pathways out of alienation and structural violence.
Youth Action, Anticolonial Methods, and the Climate Crisis
What is often left out of research related to development, humanitarianism, and disaster are the centuries-long, resiliency-eroding extractions of resources and wealth from negatively racialised communities in both the Global South and peripheral North. Our aim is to confront and change this by working with engaged youth who desire and are organising for just and sustainable futures.
Settler Colonialism, American Nationalism, and Masculinity
Published by Zed Books under their "ZED Scholar" line. For more on ZED Scholar, click this link.
I grew up in the heartland of an American settler colony rife with gun violence and deaths of despair. My aim here is to demonstrate that any diagnosis of crisis, suffering, and masculinity in the US must account for the country’s historical trajectories of dispossession and structural white supremacy.