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Zali is a second-year PhD candidate at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her PhD focuses on the contested development of dams and water diversion projects in Northwest Thailand and in the Salween River Basin. Zali completed her master’s at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Her master’s thesis examined the perceived social impacts of multiple small dam projects, and contestation over water resources. She completed her undergraduate degree in development studies (honors) at the University of New South Wales (NSW) in Sydney, Australia. She has also worked in environmental and water policy for the NSW government, and as a research consultant for Greenpeace.
In her free time, Zali is an avid hiker and rock climber.
RCC Project: Contests Over Water and the Yuam River Water Diversion Project: Participation, Exclusion, and Resistance
Selected Publications:
- with Vanessa Lamb. “Dams, Diversions, and Development: Slow Resistance and Authoritarian Rule in the Salween River Basin.” Antipode (March 2023). https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12939.
- with Sarah Rogers, Vanessa Lamb, Ruth Gamble, Brooke Wilmsen, Fengshi Wu, and Xiao Han. “Beyond State Politics in Asia’s Transboundary Rivers: Revisiting Two Decades of Critical Hydropolitics.” Geography Compass (March 2023): e12685. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12685.
- with Vanessa Lamb. “Expanding Transboundary Environmental Governance: A Mobile Political Ecology of Sand and Shifting Resource-Based Livelihoods in Southeast Asia.” Special issue, Environmental Policy and Governance (2021): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1972.
- Hero to Zero: Uncovering the Truth of Corporate Australia’s Climate Action Claims. Sydney: Greenpeace Australia Pacific, 2021.
- with Teerapong Pomun, Katrina J. Charles, and Julian Kirchherr. “Mapping the Social Impacts of Small Dams: The Case of Thailand’s Ing River Basin.” Ambio 48 (2019): 180–191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1062-7.