Alma Andersen Tjalve

Research areas

Alma Andersen Tjalve works at the intersection of environmental anthropology, techno-anthropology and decolonial studies. She researches resource extractive encounters between the Global North and South in an Anthropocene era where climate change challenges and the call for mitigating these create new forms of large-scale resource extraction. She has researched broadly on the green transition’s effects on Latin American landscapes and seascapes – with a focus on how global economic interests and (de)colonial politics collide on sorghum fields and kelp forests in rural Mexico and the people living off and with these ecologies.

Current research project:

Her PhD project focuses on the novel frontier of seabed mining taking shape in the Pacific Ocean with a specific focus on how this emerging industry causes rearticulations of borders, boundaries and imagined futures on the Mexican Pacific Coast by people, politics, researchers and their more than human relations. Her ethnographic fieldwork thus takes place among artisanal fisher cooperatives and conservationists on the Coast of Baja California, state environmental agencies, the International Seabed Authority and with the research community and industry of seabed mining.