Professor Michael Watts FBA
The political economy of resources with a particular focus on the oil and gas and energy sectors, and on food and agriculture in the Global South (Africa in particular)
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2019
- Subjects
- Anthropology
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Current post
University of California, Berkeley Emeritus Class of 63 and Chancellor’s Professor of Geography and Development Studies
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Penny Harvey FBA
Anthropology of state effects, infrastructures, engineering, materiality and communicative practice drawing on long term ethnographic research in Peru and more recently in the UK. Current focus on nuclear waste disposal, emergent publics and the politics and temporalities of place-making
Professor Kirsten Hastrup FBA
The entanglement of natural & social histories in Iceland & Greenland; the anthropological contribution to climate change research; the history of Artic anthropology; the foundations of anthropological knowledge
