Clovis Lachance

Clovis is a DPhil candidate in International Development, funded by the Rhodes Scholarship and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. His doctoral project examines why decarbonisation proceeds unevenly across metropolitan regions. Comparing the metropolitan regions of Mexico City and New York City, it analyses how fragmented governance, uneven institutional capacity, and variegated urban forms and phenomena – especially informality and suburbia – shape the implementation of low-carbon policies in energy, transport, and buildings. Methodologically, the project adopts a mixed-methods research design, combining document analysis, semi-structured interviews, and spatial methods.

Prior to starting the DPhil, Clovis completed a BA in International Relations and International Law at the University of Quebec in Montreal and an MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Oxford. His broader research interests include how and why metropolitan poverty and inequality manifest themselves spatially, as well as social theory, especially the ways in which structural and agential forms of power become spatially clustered, turning metropolitan regions into mosaics of transition and stagnation.