Olivia Angé

Olivia Angé is Professor of Anthropology at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Principal Investigator of an ERC Starting Grant on Flourishing Seeds. She specializes in the study of agriculture, value creation, and relatedness in the Andes. Since 2014, she has been doing research on potato cultivation and agrobiodiversity conservation in Peru. She has also performed extensive fieldwork on barter fairs in the Argentinean cordillera.

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Politics of Tuberous Regards in Andean Practices of Agricultural Care

Theorizing the Contemporary

Politics of Tuberous Regards in Andean Practices of Agricultural Care

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Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care: An Introduction

Theorizing the Contemporary

Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care: An Introduction

The concept of care has become central to understanding multispecies relations (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017; Mol et al. 2020; Münster et al. 2021). In work on veg... More

Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care

Theorizing the Contemporary

Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care

The concept of care has become central to work on multispecies relations. In scholarship with vegetal beings, care sometimes involves a situated attunement or e... More