Liz Carrigan

I’m a researcher and writer exploring the social and environmental dimensions of technology, with a particular interest in how technology, society, and the climate crisis intersect. I hold a Master’s degree in Global Studies and am a PhD candidate in the binational Global Studies programme at Humboldt University Berlin and Universidad del Salvador in Argentina.

My recent writing includes From Ecotourism to Enclaves in Costa Rica, published in the Mexico City–based action and research journal Ojalá, and When Dry Season Never Ends: How Global Wealth Is Reshaping Access to Water in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, published by Global Voices.

I have written for Tactical Tech, contributing to the series Digitized Divides: Revealing the Trade-Offs of a Tech-Dependent World, and for Global Voices, including The Green Transition’s Barren Footprint: Reckoning with the Reality of Rare-Earth Mining. My academic work includes Environmental Subjectivity Formation in Ecuador: Challenging Prevailing Notions of a ‘Green’ Transition.

^{I have carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Ecuador, worked with a women’s collective in rural Mexico, and collaborated with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s socio-ecological transition team in Mexico City. In a previous life, I worked as a visual designer in the UK and Australia, specialising in environmental design and wayfinding systems.}