Deborah Johnson

I am a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Exeter with a background in peace and conflict research, religion and South Asia. In particular, I researched the civil war in Sri Lanka exploring how in the war-affected north and east people developed and used forms of religious authority to create spaces outside of the major conflict dynamics through which to pursue political, social and humanitarian goals.

Personal life led me to artisanal mines in Alaska and Tanzania in the early 2000s, since when I have been expanding my work to explore the politics of natural resource extraction. I am a core member of the interdisciplinary network 'people and mining' (www.peopleandmining.com).