Lis Kayser holds a Master in Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes from the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Lis is enrolled as a PhD student at the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University (Denmark) and based at the Danish Institute for International Studies, where she works on her PhD-project, provisionally titled “The Nuclear Afterlife in French Polynesia: On Ruination, Nostalgia, and the Future”. Her project explores how life in the Anthropocene – starting with the first nuclear tests in the 1960’s – is like for French Polynesia’s inhabitants and how they perceive radioactive pollution and its environmental, socio-economic, and health risks in the present. The PhD project is part of the larger research program on “Radioactive Ruins: Security in the Age of the Anthropocene (RADIANT)”, based at DIIS, studying the effects of nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands, Kazakhstan and French Polynesia.

Environmental Anthropology, French Polynesia, International Relations, Nuclear Issues, Post-Colonialism, Memory, Politics Of Knowing And Not Knowing

Anthropology

Polynesia

20th century
21st century

Tuamotuan