
Dr Vitalie Duporge
BA, MSc, PhD
Current positions
Teaching Unit Organiser
School of Geographical Sciences
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Research interests
I am a political ecologist with expertise in community-led environmental movements and nonformal land-based education models as responses to socioenvironmental transition in both rural and urban contexts. As my primary case study of interest, I hold substantial experience researching the European ecovillage network using qualitative methods; looking to these sites as radical, hopeful, and yet sometimes troubled spaces for reconciling human and more-than-human relations. My book titled 'European Ecovillages: Crisis, Hope and the Politics of Transition' will be published with Bristol University Press (BUP) in 2027.
My broader research activities have included examining experiences of eco-anxiety amongst postgraduate students for a UKRI-funded project with Cabot Institute for the Environment and the temporal pedagogies that emerge through immersive land connection for School of Education, University of Bristol.
Aside from research, I teach extensively across the university, acting as unit convenor and/or designing and leading lectures on the folllowing modules:
- BSc Sustainable Development
- BSc Geographies of Work and Employment
- MSc Environmental Policy and Politics
- BSc Geography Past, Present and Future
- BSc Key Concepts in Human Geography
- BSc Qualitative Research Methods
Both my research and teaching draw on a rich history of involvement in civil society initiatives and go beyond technocratic visions of sustainability to foreground relationality and care. I am an active member of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) Research Circle and Intentional Communities Research Network.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Temporal Pedagogies in Land-Based Learning
Role
Researcher
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/08/2024 to 31/10/2024
Exploring Eco-Anxiety and Peer-Support with PGR Communities
Role
Researcher
Description
Examining experiences of ecoanxiety and peer support strategies with PGR cohortsManaging organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/03/2024 to 31/07/2024
Publications
Selected publications
01/01/2021Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self Sufficiency and Systems Change
Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self Sufficiency and Systems Change
Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures: Foundations Paper (TESF)
WASS Education and Learning Sciences
Recent publications
01/01/2025Nonhuman Attunements in European Ecovillages
Intentional Communities: Theory and Practice of Communal Living
"Time is Different Working with the Land"
Journal of Environmental Education
Affects and Temporalities of Land-Based Labours
Matters of Care
Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self Sufficiency and Systems Change
Climate Adaptation: Accounts of Resilience, Self Sufficiency and Systems Change
Thesis
Ecological Hope
Supervisors
Award date
04/02/2025
