About
Alyssa Paredes is LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, where she will be Assistant Professor in Fall 2022. She is a socio-cultural anthropologist with research interests in the human, environmental, and metabolic infrastructures of transnational trade. She uses multi-sited, multi-scalar, and multi-lingual methods to carry out immersive and socially engaged fieldwork in the Philippines and Japan. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology with distinction from Yale University.
Dr. Paredes is currently developing a book manuscript entitled, Bananapocalypse: Plantation Mindanao and the Transnational Making of Externalities. Drawing heavily from Science and Technology Studies, her work identifies the conventions of crop science, agrochemical regulation, market segmentation techniques, and food standards as arenas where actors contend with the “externalities” of the commodity chain. By combining approaches in STS with environmental and economic anthropology, critical food studies, and human geography, her aim is to place the figure of the plantation at the center of political imaginaries in contemporary times.
Her work has appeared in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, the Journal of Political Ecology, and the Journal of Material Culture, as well as in edited collections such as the Promise of Multispecies Justice (Duke, forthcoming 2022) and Feral Atlas: the More-than-Human Anthropocene (Stanford, 2020). More information can be found on her website.
Affiliations: Department of Anthropology
