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Kathrin Eitel is a cultural anthropologist and a feminist scholar in Science and Technology Studies (STS). She previously worked as a research associate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt, and has contributed to the study program Metropolitan Culture at HCU Hamburg. Eitel's PhD research focused on waste recycling practices in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, where she analyzed the postcolonial structures involved in 'doing waste politics' that perpetuate prevalent notions of waste detached from socio-cultural contexts. She authored a monograph titled 'Recycling Infrastructures Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, Urban Life Phnom Penh' published by Routledge in 2022. Currently, Eitel's research project examines the disjunction between urban planning and resilience strategies, specifically looking at mega-technology projects and local resilience practices in the context of flood control strategies in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and freshwater scarcity in Istanbul, Turkey. She is particularly interested in the heteronormative worldviews inscribed in resilience technologies and their tangible implications for urban life, as well as opportunities for participatory co-laborative envisioning of urban futures.
Department of Law