Rosa Dümlein
Research interests
Environmental anthropology, anthropology of climate change, multispecies theory, plant ethnography, anthropology of the future, urban ethnography, anthropology of food, visual anthropology, science and technology studies, habitability
Research areas
Oceania (Vanuatu)
Short biography
Rosa Dümlein is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Her PhD project analyses the 'Future Gardens' of Luganville, focusing on changing agricultural strategies as a negotiation of shared futures and multispecies habitats in peri-urban Vanuatu. She studied Anthropology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. After completing her bachelor's degree, she moved to the Free University of Berlin for a master's degree in social and cultural anthropology. Her main interests were environmental anthropology and multispecies relationships. She deepened her knowledge as a student assistant in the subproject "Touching Plants. Affective Encounters in the Botanical Garden and Museum of Freie Universität Berlin" In her master's thesis, she focused on forest dieback in the Franconian Forest and the relationships between humans and trees that developed in this context. Since 2023 she is a member of the 'Laboratory: Anthropology of the Environment / Human Relations (LAEHR)' at the Institute of European Ethnology and the IRI THESys at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2023 and 2024 she travelled to Vanuatu as part of exploratory research trips, where she participated in the annual 'Scientific November' and gave a presentation on her planned research project. In 2024, her documentary short film 'Berührte Gelände', made in collaboration with Freya Brosterhus and Elisabeth Brosterhus, premiered at the workshop 'Umwelt(en) im Wandel' of the Environmental Anthropology Working Group of the DGSKA.