Lukas Fort

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I joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen as a postdoctoral research fellow in January 2024. I completed my PhD in 2022 at the School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia in Perth. I am interested in bringing cultural perspectives on the environment into conversation with questions of power, class, gender, ethnicity, economics and materiality. In particular, my research focuses on policies, sociotechnical strategies, social movements, and innovative designs intended to shift contemporary waste management practices towards more sustainable forms. I explore these concerns both through ethnography and engagements with post-structuralist philosophy and practice theory. My PhD research explored the role of culture (and social and environmental justice) in the formulation and enactment of a circular economy-inspired waste management policy in Indonesia. For this work, I was awarded the 2023 John Legge Prize for the best thesis in Asian Studies across Australia from the Asian Studies Association of Australia. In my current postdoc position, I am contributing to the Digital-Environment Nexus project, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. Our research examines the interconnectedness of digital media and environmental issues in Indonesia, focusing on the potential of digital technologies to influence environmental behaviour and policy.