Habitable Air

  • habitableair@uib.no
  • University of Bergen | 5007 Bergen, Norway

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PROJECT TEAM

The project is comprised of several researchers from different universities

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Researchers

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Sibale Ndwayana

CEO and Co-Founder

Sibahle Ndwayana is a Ph.D. student at the University of California-Berkeley, His dissertation aims to reorient Blackness within Black Geographies and Black Studies by focusing on a geosonic understanding of Cabo Verde, he examines how sound plays a role in the spatial (re)production of Cabo Verde, including how sound shapes and is shaped by racial capitalism and colonialism.

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Sharad Chari

Researcher

Meet Sharad Chari, Associate Professor of Geography at UC-Berkeley, and affiliate at WiSER, South Africa. His research combines geography, Marxism, and Black Studies, with a focus on South India, South Africa, and the Indian Ocean. Author of multiple books and numerous articles, his work includes Fraternal Capital, Apartheid Remains and Gramsci at Sea. He is the Co-editor of Other Geographies and Ethnographies of Power.

Courtney Morris

Researcher

Courtney Morris is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley, researching critical race theory, feminist theory, black social movements, and race and environmental politics in the African Diaspora. She is the author of a forthcoming book, To Defend this Sunrise.

Dara Kell

Researcher

Dara Kell is a South African filmmaker and writer. She is currently making a documentary about civil disobedience in America, her previous film, Dear Mandela, won multiple awards. Her work has been featured on PBS, Netflix and more. She has also produced a podcast about women in climate justice.

Stefan Ogedengbe

Researcher

Stefan Ogedengbe is a Ph.D. student under the Habitable Air Project at the department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. His research examines medical anthropology, urban inequality, ecological degradation, and preservation in urban and rural landscapes, specifically in South Africa. His Ph.D. project is an ethnography of asthma and industrial toxicity, air pollution, and climate change.

Kefiloe Sello

Researcher

Kefiloe Sello is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen under the Habitable Air Project. Her research focuses on how relationships of humans and non-human species change in relation to water and air commodification in Southern Africa, and she is a recipient of the Margaret McNamara Education Grant and the Wenner Gren Foundation.

Kerry Ryan Chance

Researcher

Dara Kell is a South African filmmaker and writer. She is currently making a documentary about civil disobedience in America, her previous film, Dear Mandela, won multiple awards. Her work has been featured on PBS, Netflix and more. She has also produced a podcast about women in climate justice.

Charlotte Bruckermann

Researcher

Charlotte Bruckermann is a Research Associate and Lecturer at the Institute for Ethnology at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research centers on environmental and economic anthropology, digital ethnography, and comparative and global approaches in anthropology, with a focus on China and Germany. She is the author of Claiming Homes and co-author of The Anthropology of China.

Kefiloe Sello

Researcher

Kefiloe Sello is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen under the Habitable Air Project. Her research focuses on how relationships of humans and non-human species change in relation to water and air commodification in Southern Africa, and she is a recipient of the Margaret McNamara Education Grant and the Wenner Gren Foundation.

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Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

Project Advisor

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen and the Academic Director of the Holberg Prize. He has previously served as the Executive Director of the Global Research Program on Inequality. Bjørn’s research focuses on politics, protest, violence, egalitarianism, and questions of urbanity in Africa and more globally. Along with numerous articles, he has published several books on these topics.

Ajantha Subramanian

Project Advisor

Ajantha Subramanian is a Professor at Harvard University. Her research interests include political economy, ecology, colonialism, space, citizenship in South Asia, including the South Asian Diaspora. She authored Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India and The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India.

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Felix Lussem

Project Affiliate

Felix Lussem is a Research Assistant at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research addresses shifting spatial and temporal orders in negotiations of “global crises” in Germany with a regional focus on Rhineland’s lignite mining area. He is the author of Alienating “facts” and Uneven Futures of Energy Transition.

Marieke Winchell

Project Affiliate

Marieke Winchell is Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago; her research covers racial and gender vulnerabilities and colonial labor subjection and land dispossession. She is the author of After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia and working on two book projects, Ghostly Invasions: Political Theologies of Fire in Post-Coup Bolivia and The Servant’s Properties: Materiality, Gender, and More-than-Human Landscapes in 20th Century Bolivia.

Jessica Judson

Project Affiliate

Jessica Judson is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Minnesota, studying the impact of structural racism on police violence against black people and other people of colour in the U.S. She is examining the impact of county-level correlates of structural racism on the racial disparity in police violence victimisation across the United States.