ASHLEY DAWSON - Author of "People’s Power", "Extreme Cities", "Extinction" - Professor of Postcolonial Studies at CUNY

Ashley Dawson is currently Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), and at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He currently works in the fields of environmental humanities and postcolonial ecocriticism. He is the author of three recent books relating to these fields: People’s Power (O/R, 2020), Extreme Cities (Verso, 2017) and Extinction (O/R, 2016). 

Other areas of interest of his include the experience and literature of migration, including movement from colonial and postcolonial nations to the former imperial center (Britain in particular), and from rural areas to mega-cities of the global South such as Lagos and Mumbai.
· ashleydawson.info
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www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/climate-action-lab
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info