Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  abrahmskavunenko.saskia.6hkyoto-u.ac.jp

Academic Degree

• 27 Aug. 2012

  Ph.D.（The University of Western Australia）

Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

• University of Western Australia, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 卒業

Research

Research Topics, Overview of the research

• Research Topics

  Dr Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko is an anthropologist who uses ethnographic methods to explore human lives from a broad perspective. Her research encompasses the more-than-human, economic and climactic changes, toxicity and pollution, the mundane, the invisible, and the sublime.

• Overview of the research

  Dr Abrahms-Kavunenko has published on the topics of plastics, global warming and pollution, doubt and materiality, Buddhism, shamanism, postsocialism, and economic anthropology as they have been experienced in Mongolia, Australia and India. Her recent work engages the materiality of plastics as they interact with and co-constitute ecological, cultural, and religious spheres. Her project ‘Plastic Cosmologies: Radical Permeation and the Self’ will look at how people ontologically (re)orient themselves in a world permeated with plastics.