In this seminar, Dr Camelia Dewan will talk about issues of toxicity in Bangladesh, linking her recent work on toxic exposure in shipbreaking sites to the impact of high-yield agriculture to the entanglements of rice, soil and strength in a freshwater village.

Camelia Dewan is an environmental anthropologist focusing on the anthropology of development. She is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at University of Oslo examining shipbreaking in Bangladesh for the Norwegian Research Council-funded project (Dis)Assembling the Life Cycle of Containerships.

Dr Dewan holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and Environment from the University of London (SOAS & Birkbeck). She is the author of Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh (2021, University of Washington Press) and has published in Ethnos, Water International, Water Alternatives on water infrastructures. She is currently working on the intersection of water and toxicity.

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