My name is Alma Andersen Tjalve, and I hold a bachelor and MSc in Anthropology from University of Copenhagen with a particular interest in extractive industries, landscapes and (neo)colonial relations in green transition projects in Latin America. For my PhD project: Contested Waters: Seabed Mining and the New Frontiers of Resource Extractivism, I have “jumped ship” and enrolled at Anthropology here at Aarhus University to strengthen my methodological and theoretical thinking in my move from landscape to seascape, while also getting to know a new research environment.

My PhD project will explore the complex interlinkages between seabed mineral extraction, ocean ecologies, and the humans living off and with the ocean in Southern Baja California, Mexico. I will focus on how notions of displacement are imagined and contested by different actors pushing for or against seabed mining both within Mexico’s Exclusive Economic Zone and at high sea, where the largest concentration of deep-sea critical minerals is gathered in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.

The project is funded by the Danish Research Council and is a collaboration between the Danish Institute for International Studies and Aarhus University with Nils Bubandt as my main supervisor.

Contact:
Alma Andersen Tjalve
School of Culture and Society
Department of AnthropologyMoesgård Allé 20
Building 4235, room 238
8270 Højbjerg
aatj@cas.au.dk