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Anne Rademacher is an urban ecologist and cultural anthropologist. She holds a PhD in environmental studies and cultural anthropology from Yale University (2005) and has served as an assistant, associate, and full professor of anthropology and environmental studies at New York University (2005–2023). In 2024, Anne joined the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at the Technical University of Munich, where she serves as professor and chair of sustainable urban environments. Her work explores how contests over history, ideologies of belonging, and the politics of knowledge figure in the dynamics of urban environmental change, with a specific focus on the cities of South Asia.
Anne is the author of Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu (Duke University Press, 2011) and Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai (University of California Press, 2017) and the co-editor, with K. Sivaramakrishnan, of three volumes in Ecologies of Urbanism (Hong Kong University Press).
Anne Rademacher first came to the RCC as a visiting scholar in 2019 with a project on “Moral Ecology and the (Re)Making of Cities: Forging an Urban Future in Mumbai.”
Selected Publications:
- with Steward T. A. Pickett and Mary L. Cadenasso. “Ecologies, One and All: Singularity and Plurality in Dialogue.” Environmental Humanities 15, no. 1 (2023): 128–40. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10216195.
- with Steward T. A. Pickett and Mary L. Cadenasso. “Systems in Flames: Dynamic Coproduction of Socio-Ecological Processes.” BioScience 72, no. 8 (2022): 731–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac047.
- with Steward T. A. Pickett and Mary L. Cadenasso. “Toward Pluralizing Ecology: Finding Common Ground Across Sociocultural and Scientific Perspectives.” Ecosphere 13, no. 9 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4231.
- with K. Sivaramakrishnan, eds. Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities. Hong Kong University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528684.001.0001.