About
Ali Heuser is a Researcher (Universitätsassistent*in prae.doc) at the Institute of International Development, University of Vienna. She holds a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies from Freie Universität Berlin and is pursuing a doctoral degree in Social Sciences. Her research focuses on socio-ecological conflicts, mining extractivism, and gender relations in Latin America.
Education: PhD candidate at University of Vienna's Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences; Research stays at University of Brighton, Northumbria University, and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; M.A. from Freie Universität Berlin; B.A. in European Ethnology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Research interests include feminist environmental studies, decolonial perspectives on resource extraction, and digital activism. She has conducted fieldwork in Peru and Portugal, investigating mining conflicts and gendered resistance practices. Current research examines the transformation of gender relations in contested territories through the lens of anti-copper mining protests in southern Peru.
Awards include the Marietta Blau Scholarship from OeAD (2023-2025). Publications address feminist critiques of extractivism, methodological approaches to ethnography, and socio-ecological crises in Latin America. She has taught courses on gender and environmental studies at the University of Vienna.
