Member
Milena Bister is Substitute Professor of Environmental Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Institute of European Ethnology (IfEE), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and head of the IfEE research group Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations.
Her research addresses knowledge and governance practices at the multiple intersections of health, urban living and climate change. Her current anthropological research projects explore the concept of chronicity in mental health, relations of the ‘mental’ and the ‘environmental’, future democratic institutions of climate governance, and ethnographic approaches to the habitability of our planet.
Milena has been a member of IRI THESys since June 2024.
Research Interests
- Multispecies and planetary health
- Climate knowledge, governance, and publics
- Ethnographic approaches to habitability
- Multimodal and public anthropology
