Christopher Lesser

Christopher Lesser is a geographer working in the trans-disciplinary field of science and technology studies. His work analyses how technology transforms human and more-than-human labor in ways that affect global ecologies, economic relations, and social inequalities. To do so, his research assembles an expanded archive, including manuscripts and oral histories as well as records inscribed in soils, plant fossils, and carbon isotopes. He has published peer-reviewed articles in multiple journals including Sociology of Development, the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, American Anthropologist, and the Journal of Latin American Geography. He has also produced public-facing scholarship for publications such as NACLA, El Nuevo Día, and Categoría Cinco. He is currently a principal investigator with the project “Digitizing the Political Ecological Archives of the Niterói Herbarium (NIT).” He is also working on a book exploring how emergent forms of bio-technology become juridically, institutionally, and practically separated from the labor involved in their elaboration, illuminating the social inequities established through practices of ecological care, food production, biotechnological innovation, and economic development.