About
Artemis is a PhD Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology as part of the MSCA-ITN HEALENAE Doctoral Program. She is primarily interested in analysing political economies of resource extraction and their embodiment in Tanzania from an anthropological perspective (political economy from inside), with a focus on their entanglement with global production chains, mining governance, gender, and (health)care systems. Her doctoral research examines the social and environmental consequences of dust pollution from the chain of limestone extraction, building materials production, and infrastructure construction in Dar es Salaam, which her research terms urban extractivism or the extraction—urban development nexus. This research is based on previous fieldwork on artisanal limestone mining for informal gravel production in Dar es Salaam — an underappreciated sector that contributes majorly to urban development — and the roles of women, social reproductive labour, and agency therein. Building on this research through ethnographic fieldwork in Northern Dar es Salaam, her doctoral research will specifically focus on how the political economy of dust shapes exposure to toxicity on the extractive frontiers of urban development, how toxicity is embodied, perceived and entangled with care systems and gender relations, how pollution is monitored, and how scientific and community-based evidence of toxic pollution is produced, circulated, and contested.
Research Interests:
African Studies, political economy, medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, mineral extraction, urban studies, gender, labour, (health)care, global production chains
Background
Education:
MSc in Political Economy from the University of Amsterdam, 2026 (Cum Laude)
Research MA in African Studies from Leiden University, 2025 (Cum Laude)
BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from Utrecht University, 2022 (Honours)
Awards:
Shortlisted for the Africa Thesis Award, 2025