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L.M.M. (Laura) van den Brink

PhD candidate
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Area of expertise: Agriculture, more-than-human relations, socio-ecological temporalities, colonial histories and presents in multispecies worlds, multimodal research

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
  • Postbus 15509
    1001 NA Amsterdam
Social media
  • Profile

    Topics that I am working on are intersections of climate change, colonialism and capitalist relations, temporalities and more-than-human spaces within agriculture. Specifically olive farming.

  • Research

    Research methods

    Ethnographic research, fieldwork, multimodal anthropology (filmmaking, photography, sound recording, and drawing).

    Current research project

    In pursuit of a traveling tree: phd research about the planting of Spanish Arbequina olive trees in Tunisia, understanding how the Mediterranean and the colonial temporalities relate to oneanother within olive tree cultivation, and how people navigate these in and through their farming practices. Part of the Vital Elements research team run by Amade A. M’charek.

  • Publications

    2024

    • van den Brink, L. M. M., M'charek, A. A., & Borgi, W. (2024). Entangling time and trees: On olive cultivation in South-Tunisia.

    Others

    • van den Brink, L. (participant) (17-10-2024 - 18-10-2024). Emplacements and Mobilities: Changing Olive Entanglements Around and Beyond the Mediterranean, Mytilene (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
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  • Ancillary activities
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