Anders Burman

Anders Burman is a Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Gothenburg's School of Global Studies. He previously held positions as Senior Lecturer at Lund University and Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on political ecology, climate change, Indigenous knowledge systems, and environmental conflicts in the Andes. He leads two Swedish Research Council-funded projects: one on Indigenous cosmopolitics in Latin America and another on climate change and migration in mountain regions. He teaches at undergraduate and graduate levels in Environmental Social Science and supervises PhD students in Social Anthropology and Peace and Development Research. He co-coordinates the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Bolivia. His work emphasizes decolonial methodologies and knowledge co-production between Indigenous communities and academia.

• Education: PhD in Social Anthropology (2009)
• Key Projects: Climig (climate change-migration framework) and Indigenous Cosmopolitical Brokerage
• Awards: None listed explicitly, but his work has received significant international recognition.

Research Interests: Climate justice, political ontology, ritual practice as activism, traditional ecological knowledge, migration studies, and decolonizing academia. His recent publications explore the intersection of Indigenous cosmologies with climate adaptation and the coloniality of environmental knowledge systems.