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Marlen Eckstein (Marlen Elders) completed her MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology at LMU Munich with a thesis on exploring aesthetics and sensory perception, experimenting with creative research methods. In 2017, she co-curated the exhibition on Munich's environmental (hi)stories at the Rachel Carson Center (see Ecopolis München). From 2016 to 2020, she was part of the research project "Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World", working on the highland flotsam exhibition and her first documentary film Murghab, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2019 and was awarded the prize for the best documentary feature at the Dumbo Film Festival in New York City. Since January 2022, she is part of the ERC research project "Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism".
RCC Research Project: Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism
Selected Publications:
- Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond. Edited by Philipp Schorch, Martin Saxer, and Marlen Elders. London: UCL Press, 2020.
- "Democratic Green." In Ecopolis München, edited by L. Sasha Gora. Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions 2017, no. 2. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/8051.
- "Nurturing My Greens with High-Tech? Reflections on Vertical Farming and the PlantCube." Seeing the Woods. A Blog by the Rachel Carson Center. https://seeingthewoods.org/2017/03/08/nurturing-my-greens-with-high-tech-reflections-on-vertical-farming-and-the-plantcube/.
- "Let’s Save the World Gardening!" (Student Research: Permaculture—Alternative Agriculture, part 1). Seeing the Woods. A Blog by the Rachel Carson Center. https://seeingthewoods.org/2017/02/06/student-research-permaculture-alternative-agriculture/.