Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
print


Breadcrumb Navigation


Content
PD Dr. Martin Saxer

PD Dr. Martin Saxer

Principle Investigator, ERC Consolidator Grant “Foraging,” ProEnviron Board Member

Contact

Rachel Carson Center
Leopoldstr. 11a, 4. OG
80802 Munich


Martin Saxer studied social and cultural anthropology in Zurich and taught visual anthropology at Zurich University’s Ethnographic Museum. In 2010, he obtained his doctorate from Oxford University on a Clarendon scholarship with a thesis on the industrialization of Tibetan medicine. Outside of academia, he worked in carpentry, as a gardener, as a theater actor and director of two plays, and in a stained-glass atelier.

From 2011 to 2015, he was a postdoc at the Asia Research Institute in Singapore and a Marie-Curie Fellow at LMU Munich, working on his project “Neighbouring China.” Between 2015 and 2020, Martin was leading the research project “Remoteness & Connectivity—Highland Asia in the World,” funded by an ERC Starting Grant. Since 2022, he is the principle investigator of the current ERC Consolidator Grant project “Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism.”

A wanderer between arts and academia, Martin directed and produced three feature length documentary films. The latest, “Murghab,” premiered internationally at the Locarno International Film Festival. He ran the photography blog [the other image], curated the exhibition “Highland Flotsam,” and created several photographic exhibitions of his own work.

RCC Research Project: Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism


Selected Publications: