Mathilda Rosengren is a visual anthropologist and urban geographer with a research focus on environmental and more-than-human ethnographies of cities and urban life in the Anthropocene. Her work takes inspiration from social and cultural anthropology, geography, multispecies ethnography, urban political ecology, landscape studies, and the environmental humanities. Methodologically, she uses mixed qualitative techniques comprising audio-visual, archival and classic ethnographic methods.
Circling around three nodes of enquiry – multispecies spatial justice, urban time and temporalities, and more-than-human artistic practices – her research is based on an extended interest in questioning the anthropocentric vision of cities that has long dominated urban planning and design. Empirically, it seeks to grapple, philosophically and practically, with the experiences of green redevelopments in post-industrial cities of Northern Europe (Berlin, Gothenburg, Malmö) as lessons for imagining and building alternative urban futures.
She holds a PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge (2020) and an MA in Visual and Media anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin (2014).
