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Research Interests
Medical anthropology, mental health, social and community support, Social Prescribing, community garden projects, planetary health, decolonial research methodologies, activism of people with indigenous descendants, social and climate justice
Research Area(s)
England, Argentina
Profile
I am a doctoral candidate at the ReCentGlobe of the University of Leipzig as well as a member of the Max Planck Research School Global Multiplicity: A Social Anthropology for the Now. Before moving to Leipzig, I did my master’s at the University of Passau in European Studies, which is where I started to get more involved in doing research. Besides gaining relevant experience in empirical research through conducting a systematic review on migration in West Africa, I got into the field of anthropological research by doing fieldwork in Buenos Aires for my thesis on activism against the discrimination of indigenous descendants. I became particularly interested in exploring creative methods of engaging with research participants, producing and communicating knowledge while applying a reflexive and decolonial perspective. I am convinced that research should be a(n) (experimental) collaboration with people in the field, learning with and from them towards a goal that has meaning outside of academia.
By working in activism as well as thanks to exploring the community supported agriculture projects in Leipzig and being part of a neighbourhood support network, I got inspired for my PhD topic and chose to learn more about community support and care practices. I started working on Green Social Prescribing in England with a focus on community garden projects. I am curious to learn more about that approach in order to be able to critically analyse on what theories it is built, how it is carried out in practice, how people participating navigate it and which embodied experiences are created in that context. Through ethnographic research, I strive to contribute to current debates of care, mental health, social justice, belonging, loneliness, environmental issues as well as urban planning with a focus on green spaces and hope to reach not only the audience of (medical) anthropology but also create knowledge that can inform other disciplines and policy making. I am always happy to have an (interdisciplinary) exchange on my research.