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...
Cornelia is Senior Policy Fellow at the Centre for Energy Ethics. As political ecologist, she has studied various land use struggles associated with global net zero ambitions and is committed to community and policy engagement in finding just transition pathways....
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...
Sonja Dobroski is a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is a social anthropologist with an interdisciplinary background in material culture and Native American studies. In addition to her PhD, Sonja holds a master’s...
Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS) at the University of Lausanne. During the academic year 2023-2024, he was a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in the...
Matthew Archer is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sustainability in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. His research examines the role of non-state actors like corporations and financial institutions in sustainability governance,...
Dr Philippa Lovatt is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on artists’ moving image, sound, eco-criticism, and Southeast Asian independent film and video cultures. She is currently writing a monograph on the politics of...
Nick is an anthropologist who specialises in the social aspects of large-scale resource extraction. His work has a broad focus on the Pacific, and Papua New Guinea in particular. Nick’s research career spans academic and applied research at the interface between...