Clovis Lachance

Clovis Lachance is a DPhil candidate in International Development funded by the Rhodes Scholarship. His research examines the political history, political economy, and political theory of urban sustainable development. His current work analyses the material and ideational factors shaping the implementation of sustainable infrastructure in the Mexico City and New York City metropolitan areas. Employing a mixed-methods approach, Clovis investigates why and how sustainable infrastructure emerges, diffuses, and interacts with urban inequalities across cities of the Global South and Global North. His findings speak both to the economic, political, and geographical dimensions of infrastructure formation and to new understandings of how neoliberalism and modernity materialise in the contemporary metropolis – processes that together illuminate how metropolitan areas structurally produce and reproduce inequalities.

Prior to starting the DPhil, Clovis completed a BA in International Relations and International Law at the Université du Québec à Montréal and an MPhil in Development Studies at the Oxford Department of International Development. His previous experience includes teaching and research assistantships at the Université du Québec à Montréal, with a focus on economic, social, and cultural human rights as well as degrowth.

Clovis welcomes opportunities for collaboration, particularly in environmental political theory, normative political theory, and sustainable development policy.