Anna Notsu
PhD Candidate
- Name
- A. Notsu
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- a.notsu@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Anna Notsu is a lecturer and PhD scholar at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS). She conducted research on climate change as a form of violence and how the idea of climate change embedded in people's everyday lives shapes the transformation of agriculture in Sicily. At present, she carries out research under the Futuring Heritage project, funded by the NWO Open-L grant. Her current work explores the intersection of environmental destruction and recuperation in the Indian state of Meghalaya, focusing on how nonhuman presences, including deities, influence the trajectory of future-making. Anna's interests include political ecology, slow violence, multispecies ethnography and more-than-human anthropology.
Publications
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The Logic of Conservation: Rendering Community Participation in Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya -
Telling Together to Know Together: From Saipung to Shillong, and Beyond -
Binding Trust: Collaborative Storytelling through Image and Imagination -
The Road to Invisibility: Infrastructure, Development and Disruption in Meghalaya November -
How a Biate book turned knowledge co-creation into shared storytelling -
Religion, Culture and the Question of Indigeneity in Meghalaya -
To Be or Not to Be: Questioning Indigeneity -
‘A Rain of Blessings’: Rethinking our Future with Water -
Returning to move forward: How the Biate revisit their past to shape their future -
Conservation in question: When Anthropology meets ‘nature’ -
Review Reworking Culture by Erik de Maaker -
The Clash of Care Between Farm Workers and Landowners on Italian Lemon Farms
Blogs
In the media
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Biates celebrate Nul-Ding Kût festival with enthusiasm in Jaintia Hills -
Anna Notsu speaks about her book in the Biate language and her experience in Meghalaya -
Interview in Sunday Monitor -
Anna Notsu on ‘Khâmnu Khah A Vâr Im?/Is She Wise?’, the first ever illustrated story book in Biate -
Bringing a Biate Folktale Back Home
PhD Candidate
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Notsu A. (21 January 2025), Conservation in question : when anthropology meets ‘nature’. The Shillong Times.
- Notsu A (14 February 2025), Returning to move forward: How the Biate revisit their past to shape their future. The Shillong Times.
- Anna Notsu (2023) Review of Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India by Erik de Maaker . Review of: Erik de Maaker, Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India .
- Legierse T., Notsu A., Hiemstra M., Wijk W. van & Minter T. et al. (21 December 2021), Loneliness in solidarity and solidarity in loneliness: how students in cultural anthropology and development sociology navigate the Covid-19 crisis. Leiden Anthropology Blog. Leiden: Leiden University. [blog entry].