Alice Rudge

Alice Rudge is a Lecturer in Anthropology at SOAS University of London, working at the intersection of environmental anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and science and technology studies. Since 2014, she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Batek people in Malaysia, examining how ecological and social changes transform everyday lives and ethical frameworks. Her research investigates conflicting notions of living well during environmental breakdown.

Rudge focuses on alterity, ethics, Indigenous justice, plantation agriculture, and sustainable scientific practice. Her 2023 book 'Sensing Others' documents Batek ethical lives at the edge of rainforests threatened by palm oil plantations. Current research examines new forms of precarity generated by plantation agriculture and critiques evolutionary narratives in popular culture.

She received a British Museum Endangered Material Knowledge Programme Grant to document Batek weaving and ethnobotanical knowledge, resulting in a co-published zine 'Batek Material Culture' (2023). Rudge supervises doctoral research on climate impacts on seasons in Japan and teaches in the MA Anthropology of Global Futures and Sustainability program.