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Kennedy Opande is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Nairobi's Department of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies. He holds a Research Fellow position under the Situated Neurology project funded by SSHRC IG, led by Dr. Denielle Elliott, and is affiliated with the Harriet Tubman Institute at York University as an Associate Fellow. Additionally, he collaborates with the ‘Anthropology of Life’ team at Collège de France.
His research explores interdisciplinary domains at the intersection of:
- Non-Western cosmologies of life
- Human-nonhuman relationality
- Science and technology studies (STS)
- Philosophies of socio-nature
- Decolonial methodologies in knowledge production
- Elemental ontologies in indigenous systems
Kennedy's work critically examines how neo-colonial frameworks shape scientific discourses in indigenous contexts. He has received the SSHRC IG Postdoctoral Fellowship and contributes to international academic networks across Africa, Canada, and France.
