2024: Andrea Pettit

The Multispecies Triad in Motion. A Between The Ears photo of the Multispecies Triad in action from a day of Horseback Ethnography on a working cattle ranch in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado (2019) Andrea Petitt

Andrea Petitt is a researcher at the Anthropology Lab, Université de Liège, Belgium. She has previously worked at the Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (Kathmandu, Nepal), the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, (Uppsala). She has conducted ethnographic and multispecies field work in Botswana, Colorado (USA), Canada, Sweden and Nepal around questions of gender and intersectionality in agriculture, and is currently preparing an ethnographic study in Mongolia. She uses ethnographic poetry and analytical drawing in her research, has a number of published ethnographic poems in Swedish and international journals and books, and continuously holds workshops and seminars in creative analytical writing and ethnographic poetry. Andrea is the instigator and co-founder of the international network for Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methods (MEAM) and headed the inaugural MEAM conference in Belgium in 2023.