Contact: eric.boyd@gu.se
Interests
extractivism, community displacement, resource materialities, critical heritage studies, hauntology
Current Research
Eric’s current research is engaged with the power dynamics and covert violence of the mining induced resettlement of Kiruna, Sweden, as articulated by the ruination and decay of the city’s deformation zone.
Short biography
Eric is a Leverhulme Trust funded social anthropologist currently finishing up his PhD with the interdisciplinary research group DurhamArctic based out of Durham University, UK, working primarily for the past three years in his capacity as a visiting researcher with the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Eric’s background is in the environmental sciences with a B.Sc. from the University of Dundee, and an M.Sc in Anthropology, Environment and Development from University College London (UCL). He also worked as a co-editor for the Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability (CAoS) at UCL.