Sara Asu Schroer

Sara Asu Schroer is an environmental anthropologist specialising in European ethnography. Her current work focuses on the meanings of drought and processes of drying in changing European landscapes. She is the PI of the ERC starting grant project Living with Drought: Human-Environment Relationships in Changing European Landscapes, which sets out to explore the uneven effects of droughts on diverse human experiences and life ways, as well as their embeddedness in wider webs of other-than-human communities. The project is rooted in calls from within the environmental humanities and social sciences, that to respond to life in times of radical ecological degradation, it is necessary to counterbalance currently widespread techno-managerial approaches, with critical, situated, cultural analysis of global environmental issues.