Dr. Anna Bridel

Biography

Anna Bridel is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work draws on Political Ecology and Science Technology Studies to examine how processes of knowing the environment shape diverse futures. Anna holds a PhD in International Development from LSE, a bachelor's degree in Spanish Literature and European History from the University of Edinburgh, and a foundation degree in Visual Communication from Wimbledon College of Art. As a visiting fellow at the Science Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, her PhD research focused on the changing visions of storm risk among traditional fishers in Mexico and India. Through ethnographic fieldwork, she developed the concept of 'epistemic vulnerability', analyzing the (in)capacity of marginalized voices to shape expertise in light of contemporary politics. Currently, Anna is developing new work that investigates storm governance and explores contested imaginaries of justice in the intersections of politics, ruination, and wetlands restoration, employing anti-colonial research practices. She has published in both academic and popular publications and has been supported twice by the Economic and Social Research Council. Additionally, Anna co-organizes the Contested Ecologies reading group and was awarded the LSE Teaching Excellence prize in 2020.

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