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Dr Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko is an anthropologist who uses ethnographic methods to explore human lives from a broad perspective. Her research encompasses the more-than-human, economic and climactic changes, toxicity and pollution, the mundane, the invisible, and the sublime. Her career has ranged across a number of topics and sub-disciplines, but has been unified by a commitment to representing the experiences of the people she works with, who find themselves alive and active within broad and shifting webs of ecological, economic, social, and political relations.

Dr Abrahms-Kavunenko has published on the topics of plastics, global warming and pollution, doubt and materiality, Buddhism, shamanism, postsocialism, and economic anthropology as they have been experienced in Mongolia, Australia and India. Her recent work engages the materiality of plastics as they interact with and co-constitute ecological, cultural, and religious spheres. Her project ‘Plastic Cosmologies: Radical Permeation and the Self’ will look at how people ontologically (re)orient themselves in a world permeated with plastics.