Leadership for the
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Irène is a PhD Student in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. She holds a Franco-German Master of Arts in Ethnology from the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and the Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt, and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) from the University of Cambridge in Human, Social and Political Sciences (HSPS). She has done previous fieldwork on the horse-racing industry in France and the United States of America, on UFO groups in France, and on circus animals. She’s interested in weather modification, climate change, domestication processes, the human aspects of conservation, techniques, the anthropology of ethics and freedom, and human/animals relationships. She believes that imagination matters, and that we ought to pay close attention to what people value, hope to achieve, wish to do, and wish for in their life, to what is not yet there, and might never be.

Irène also holds a keen interest in methodology and collaborative research. She is fascinated by new media, sound and radio broadcast, narratives of adventures, ‘discovery’ and heroes. She is also a close reader of modern myths, science fiction, Solarpunk fiction, and fantasy books. She’s interested in alternative and utopian communities and ideologies, and believes strongly in an anthropology of the good, even in dark times.