Ariell Ahearn

Ariell is currently a departmental lecturer at the School for Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Since 2004, Ariell has worked extensively in rural Mongolia with mobile pastoralist communities around land use and rural development issues. Ariell's current research aims to understand the relationships between social systems, resource distribution and governance frameworks in regions undergoing economic transformation. She specializes in qualitative research, using methods such as ethnographic participant observation, interviewing, mapping and immersive field work to document and analyze the conditions that inform human decision-making and organization. Her current projects cluster around the themes of mobile pastoralism (Mongoli and Central Asia), environmental governance and conflicts related to mining.

Joined 2019

Organisation

University of Oxford