Alice Vittoria

Alice recently completed her PhD in social anthropology at University College London. Her dissertation is the result of sixteen months of fieldwork among Bayaka foragers in the Republic of Congo (Likouala department). In an attempt to redefine the dialectic between movement and space, Alice's dissertation examined the Bayaka's entanglements with forest landscapes at multiple scales, looking at Bayaka dwellings and mobilities, foraging strategies, and relationships with important non-human others, particularly forest and ancestral spirits. Alice's research interests include postcolonial forest governance and socio-ecological change; mobility, sedentarisation and land rights; more-than-human agency and multi-species ethnography. Alice is delighted to be starting a postdoctoral position in the FORAGENCY project at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on the impact of colonialism on local communities' relationship with the environment in Central Africa, with a specific focus on medicinal plants and healing.