Sofia Lovegrove is a PhD candidate and cultural heritage practitioner working at the intersection of critical heritage, museum and memory studies with a focus on colonialism, decolonial and reparative practices, and the environmental humanities. Her PhD is part of the ERC funded project Ecologies of Violence: Crimes against Nature in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination at Utrecht University. Her project explores how museums and heritage sites represent ecologies of violence and articulate questions of implication, responsibility and repair. She is particularly interested in how these institutions and critical engagements with these spaces and their collections engage with the multidirectional links between ecological violence, colonial histories and their afterlives in the present. Her work as a cultural heritage practitioner has focused on (representations of) the colonial past and issues of identity, belonging, equity, inclusion and ethics of care and (international) collaboration, and on strategies for addressing and repairing the continuities of colonialism in the present.
Critical Heritage Ecologies 