Matteo Fumagalli's current project focuses on the internationalisation of the Lao PDR, with a particular focus on post-socialist state transformation and authoritarian environmental governance, energy mega-projects and infrastructural development and violence, and...
Since 2009 Tobias Haller is Professor in Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social Anthropology and CDE, University of Bern and lecturer at the ETH Zurich. He studied social anthropology, geography and sociology and made his PhD and Habilitation at the University...
Dr Jessica Hope is a lecturer in Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. As a political ecologist, she works across critical development studies and geography and researches the underlying knowledges, logics and politics that underpin...
Jonna Yarrington is a sociocultural, historical, and applied anthropologist specializing in human stratification. She studies how distinctions among individuals and groups are ideologically naturalized, politically maintained, and continually reproduced. She uses her...
Following a Degree and PhD at Imperial College (the latter under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson) Bob spent 35 years in the Chemical industry. He played a pivotal role in the invention and development of several “new to the world”...
María A. Vélez-Serna is a lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Stirling, and a film school graduate from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is the author of Ephemeral Cinema Spaces (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and co-author of Early Cinema in...
David Schröter is an FNS Doctoral Student at the University of Lausanne, and part of the Cultural and Social Anthropology Laboratory (LACS). His research ethnographically explores the impact of lithium extraction at the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, by looking at practices...
Jessica M. Smith is an anthropologist and STS scholar whose research interests center on energy, engineering, and public accountability. She is a Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Department at the Colorado School of Mines, where she also directs the...
PhD in International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) Master of Social Science - Human Ecology: Culture, Power and Sustainability, Lund University, Sweden Bachelor of Science in Geography, Christian-Albrechts-University...
Adrian Finch specialises in critical element deposits in rift-related magmatism; how to find them, how they form and how they are modified by late-stage fluids. He is particularly involved in reconstructing the three-dimensional shape of the ore body and determining...