With a long-standing interest in fish, rivers, and oceans, Swanson's work explores how political economies and ecologies are intertwined. She is a co-editor of Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations (Duke UP) and Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (Minnesota UP).
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Heather Anne Swanson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University, as well as Director of the Aarhus University Centre for Environmental Humanities. With a long-standing interest in fish, rivers, and oceans, her current work broadly explores how political economies and ecologies are intertwined. She is a co-editor of Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations (Duke University Press) and Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (Minnesota University Press), as well as the author of numerous articles on topics ranging from Japanese salmon hatcheries to railroad infrastructure.