Dr. Annet Pauwelussen is assistant professor with the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University. Her research focuses on marine (coral and oyster reef) restoration, with a special interest in contestation and collaboration between different ways of knowing and valuing marine nature. With a background in environmental anthropology and science and technology studies, her work combines critical social theory with multi-sited ethnography of human-ocean relations in Southeast Asia and trans-Atlantic coasts. More broadly, she is interested in conservation approaches and methodologies that are responsive to pluralism; making room for relational thinking, indigenous ecologies, multispecies ethics and dialogue across epistemological and ontological difference. After her PhD ‘Amphibious Anthropology’, Annet has lectured in environmental anthropology at Leiden University, and worked as a postdoc researcher in Wageningen on exclusion/inclusion of Vietnames shrimp farmers in sustainable aquaculture programs. In Ocean Nexus, she has led the project ‘Gendered Inequities in Ocean Restoration’ (2020-2022). This project focused on 1) reviewing feminist theory in marine social science, and 2) conducting a pilot study on the role of knowledge and values in (oyster) reef restoration in the UK, US and the Netherlands.

In her free time Annet enjoys being outdoors: running, hiking, horseriding, camping. Indoors, she likes to read, draw, read and discuss feminist speculative/science fiction, and build Lego creatures.