Professor Philippe Descola FBA
The ethnology of Amazonian Indians, especially of their use and perception of the environment; the comparative anthropology of the relations between nature and society
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2010
- Subjects
- Anthropology
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
Current post
Professor, Collège de France; Director of Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Gillian Rose FBA
Cultural geography: contemporary visual culture, especially photography and digital visualisations; the cultural representation and everyday experiencing of cities; visual research methodologies
Professor Louise Amoore FBA
Political geography: geopolitics of technology, politics of algorithms; biometrics and data borders, the politics and ethics of machine learning and AI
Professor Susan Owens FBA
Environmental governance: relations between land use planning, environment & sustainability; policy processes in modern democracies, especially the role of knowledge, ideas & advice in policy formation & change.
