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Rosalie Allain is a Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She completed her BSc in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and her MA in Material Visual Culture at University College London (UCL). After finishing her PhD in Anthropology at UCL in 2021, she received the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Radcliffe-Brown Sutasoma Award for research of outstanding merit. Rosalie is a founding member of the Centre for Anthropology Technics and Technodiversity (CATT) at UCL and a member of the 'Anthropologie de la Vie' research group at the Laboratory of Social Anthropology in Paris. Her research primarily focuses on techniques and technology, natural resources, cosmology, material culture, and economic life. Her doctoral work explored changing artisanal gold mining practices among the Gbaya communities in Cameroon, informed by extensive ethnographic research within the context of resource depletion and economic marginalization caused by Chinese-led mechanized extraction. Rosalie critically examines the interaction between cosmological and economic conditions, the effects of technical practices, and how mining techniques inform local understandings of scarcity and generativity within capitalist extractive frameworks.
University of Oxford • Oxford, England
Lectures and conducts research in Social Anthropology.
University College London • London, England
Provided teaching support and guidance in Social Anthropology courses.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.