DrArmel Campagne

Armel Campagne is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Environmental History at University College Dublin. He is a colonial, environmental, energy and social historian, and researches the history of coal mining and fossil fuels in the French colonial empire, with a focus on Vietnam and Algeria. He has published a monograph on the Capitalocene (2017) as well as several articles and book chapters in global environmental history. His larger research interests include the global history of capitalism, the Anthropocene, and the history of class, gender and race.

He holds a PhD in History from the European University Institute, after having been trained in Science & Technology Studies and environmental history at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris.

Armel Campagne is currently working on transforming his PhD dissertation, "French colonizers and coal mining in Vietnam (1873-1939)", into a book manuscript. His main contributions are in the history of French energy imperialism, racial capitalism in colonial Vietnam and Algeria, the moral economy of colonialism, workers' resistances to work, the history of the 1936-37 strikes in colonial Vietnam, the biopolitics of French colonialism, and the history of environmental tensions in the French colonial empire.

Armel warmly welcomes enquiries from students working on topics relating to environmental history, colonialism, capitalism and extractivism, particularly in reference to South-East Asia and North Africa.