Dr Grace Livingstone
Department Affiliated Lecturer
gl340@cam.ac.uk
https://grace-livingstone.com/
Dr Grace Livingstone is an affiliated lecturer at Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge.
Her research interests include US and British foreign policy towards Latin America, and the impact private corporations and social movements have on policy-making. She has also worked on drugs policy in Colombia, and Latin America.
She is currently researching British and European investment in green fuels in South America, assessing water and land use, and considering social movement claims that these amount to a form of ‘green colonialism’, entrenching extractive models of production and exchange.
She is the author of Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-82: Foreign Policy, Corporations and Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); America’s Backyard: The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror (Zed Books, 2009); and Inside Colombia: Drugs, Democracy and War (Latin America Bureau/Rutgers University Press, 2003).
She has also contributed a chapter on ‘The United States and the Latin American Right’ to Geraldine Lievesley and Steve Ludlum (eds.), Rightwing Politics in Latin America, (London: Zed Books, 2011) and a chapter on ‘Drugs and Criminal Organisations’ to Pia Riggirozzi and Chris Wylde (eds.), The Handbook of South American Governance, (Routledge, 2017).
She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Latin American Studies from the ILAS, University of London, and a BA in history from Queen Mary, University of London.
She is also a journalist, specializing in Latin American affairs, and has reported for the BBC World Service, The Guardian, the Independent on Sunday and The Observer.
