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Priscila Santos da Costa is an Assistant Professor at the Technologies in Practice Center for Climate IT within IT University of Copenhagen. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews (awarded 2018) and a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from São Paulo State University (awarded 2011). Previously, she served as a Balzan Fellow at the University of St Andrews (2018-2021).
Her research integrates anthropology, technoscience, and political theory, with regional expertise in Latin America (particularly the Brazilian Amazon) and Papua New Guinea. Key themes include socio-technical imaginaries, environmental governance, precarity, postcolonialism, and the intersection of religion with political structures. Her ethnographic approach examines how global crises like climate change and pandemics reshape local institutions.
Recent publications (2018-2024) demonstrate a strong focus on environmental anthropology, bureaucratic systems, and crisis ethnography. Works frequently analyze conservation politics in the Amazon, COVID-19 impacts in Papua New Guinea, and critiques of technoscientific capitalism. Methodologically, she emphasizes ethnographic fieldwork and interdisciplinary theoretical synthesis.
Awards:
- Balzan Fellowship (2018)
Research Projects:
- Amazonia 4.0: Scaling IT for a Green Transition (2022-2025): Co-Investigator studying IT applications in sustainable Brazilian agriculture
- DecouplingIT (2022-2027): Co-Investigator in EU-funded global ethnography on IT's role in climate mitigation
- SOCCAR: Sociocultural Carbon (2019-2024): Co-Investigator examining carbon markets and everyday life
