Our Students

cambutl@yorku.ca

Cameron Butler is a PhD student and Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar. His doctoral research follows phosphate fertilizers through agribusiness value chains in southern Ontario. He explores how actors across the chains are responding to phosphorus becoming an object of rising public concern, particularly around the depletion of phosphate rock reserves and increasing eutrophication. His project combines economic anthropology theories of value and environmental anthropology theories of metabolic rift. His research interests include: human/more-than-human relations, political ecology, science and technology studies, queer ecology, anthropology of infrastructure, and food studies.

His publications can be on Google Scholar

Hana Ahmed is a PhD candidate and a SSHRC Fellowship holder. Her research explores how the Bangladeshi state discursively manufactures a range of governmental tools and technologies and deploys them for the management of ‘peace’ in the militarized area of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. In conversation with the scholarship on the anthropology of the state and bureaucracy, and the literature on the historical formation of indigenous people’s movements in postcolonial states, she looks at how various governmental documents become part of the production and articulation of ‘peace’. In Bangladesh she has worked as a journalist and human rights advocate.