PhD projects

The HEALENAE PhD projects explore interconnected health and environmental challenges across Africa and Europe. Through interdisciplinary anthropological research and long-term fieldwork, they examine how changing environments and societies shape health and everyday lives.

The Dust of Development: Political Economy and Ethnography of Dust Pollution in Dar es Salaam

The material foundations of our cities are extracted: limestone is mined in quarries for gravel and cement production for infrastructure construction. This supply chain underpins life in cities, yet it also harms life by producing dust pollution as a byproduct of urban development.

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