Dr Itay Noy is a social anthropologist interested in the interaction between energy extractive projects and local rural populations. Based on long-term fieldwork, his research is concerned with the variegated impact of coal mining operations on Adivasi (tribal)...
Canay Özden-Schilling is an anthropologist of technology and capitalism. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Her first book, The Current Economy: Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics, was...
Shona Russell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the University of St Andrews. Her research interests are three-fold: the contribution of accounting to sustainability, accountability in water governance, and more recently, science-business...
Anna-Sophie is a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) since September 2020. Her research focuses on the emerging lithium-ion battery industry and its role in creating futures in Norway. Ethnographic fieldwork in places where battery...
Lorenzo is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews and the Centre for Energy Ethics. He holds a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from La Sapienza University of Rome, and has previously conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Sierra Norte de...
Leyla’s two-year postdoctoral research project will explore the construction of ‘oil city’ narratives in Baku, Azerbaijan. The main research objectives are to examine the official and unofficial narratives of urban continuity based on oil production in their socio-cultural context; to explore the practices of collective remembering and forgetting in constructing the narratives of Baku as a historical center of oil production; and to explore how an urban identity based on oil affects the imagination of a post-oil future among these groups.