JULYAN LEVY

I came to academia late in life following 20 years in the catering industry as a chef/cook. My research background is in anthropology and geography. I am interested in how we deconstruct colonial capitalism and human exceptionalism. Both my degrees used ethnography in their dissertations. My undergraduate was on Low-impact Development and my masters was on the human-cannabis relationship across scale, from the bio-molecular to the agroecological. I am now on a PhD at the Centre for Creative Economies, Coventry University researching plant agency (the ability of plants to shape worlds) and their role in diverse economies. Prior to this I trained and worked as a secondary geography teacher for 5 years. As a member of The Green Party drug policy working group I campaign to allow homegrown cannabis for medicinal and recreational use.