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Tori Ball


Research interests

  • settler colonial theory, affect studies, phenomenology, queer theory, political anthropology
  • Tori (they/he) is a first year PhD student researching the intersections of settler colonialism and supply chain capitalism from an ethnographic perspective. Their field site is rural south-eastern Australia, where they will trace the story of climate change as an iteration of bigger stories that constitute rural thinking and world-making.
  • Prior to arriving in Durham, Tori completed an Honours thesis in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne (2022) researching the anti-vaccine 'Freedom Movement'. Outside of academia they are theatre maker and community organiser working in the climate movement.
  • smjt58@durham.ac.uk
  • https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7379-2234