Dr Rebecca Ogden

About

My current research addresses reproductive politics in Latin America, especially how popular, visual and digital culture articulates and informs understandings of birth and midwifery in Cuba, Mexico and the Dominican Republic (all DAC listed countries). In this project I interrogate how culture normalises and reflects practices bearing on reproductive health-based development challenges such as the burden of neonatal and maternal mortality.

I am also interested in the intersection of sustainable development, heritage and tourism: a parallel project I have contributed to interrogates the potential for international tourism to positively and sustainably impact local development in Granma province, Cuba.

View Rebecca’s full academic profile here.

Supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective research students interested in the following challenge areas and in any Latin American DAC listed country:

1) Health and wellbeing, especially reproductive health, justice and rights.

2) Affective economies; care work and sex work; associated gendered and racialised inequalities.

3) Local development and heritage protection.

4) Tourism and nation/place branding.