Dr. Anna Bettini, Postdoctoral Associate
Calgary Institute for the Humanities, UCalgary
Anna Bettini (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary. Originally from Italy, she is an environmental socio-cultural anthropologist. Her research interests include human-environment relationships in energy landscapes, deindustrialization processes in oil and gas communities, and ecological and energy justice. Her previous research investigated the socio-cultural and environmental changes brought on by resource extraction in the mixed petroleum-producing and agricultural regions of Taranaki, New Zealand. Her current project is a multi-sited comparative study between Canada and New Zealand, focusing on oil and gas sector changes in both geographic regions as energy transition processes occur. She is interested in combining storytelling and visual methodologies – from photography to videography – through a collaborative approach to help document the changes within energy landscapes.