Full Professor of Social Anthropology
University of Bergen, Marie Curie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow.
Principal Investigator of the Habitable Air Project, which studies uneven exposure to air pollution across interconnected energy hubs in Germany, South Africa and the United States.
Profile
Kerry Ryan Chance is a social anthropologist whose work examines the politics of urban ecology, infrastructure, and climate change. Her research focuses on how inequality is produced and experienced through air, energy, and environmental systems, with empirical work in Germany, South Africa and the United States.
She is Principal Investigator of the Habitable Air Project, which studies uneven exposure to air pollution across interconnected energy hubs. Her work combines ethnographic methods with interdisciplinary collaboration across anthropology, science and technology studies, and environmental policy.
Kerry Ryan Chance is a social anthropologist whose work examines the politics of urban ecology, infrastructure, and climate change. Her research focuses on how inequality is produced and experienced through air, energy, and environmental systems, with empirical work in South Africa and the United States. She is Principal Investigator of the Habitable Air Project, which studies uneven exposure to air pollution across interconnected energy hubs. Her work combines ethnographic methods with interdisciplinary collaboration across anthropology, science and technology studies, and environmental policy.
Anthropology
at the Interface
Urban Ecology & Infrastructure
Examination of how urban environments are shaped through material systems such as housing, water, and energy, structuring social and political life.
Energy and Pollution
Analysis of energy production and circulation, with particular attention to the unequal distribution of environmental harms, including air pollution.
Climate Change & Inequality
Study of how climate change intensifies existing social inequalities and produces new forms of vulnerability and political response.
Political Anthropology of Environment
Focus on governance, activism, and everyday practices through which environmental conditions are contested and negotiated.
The Habitable
Air Project
A multi-sited research initiative that examines climate change from the perspective of unequal exposure to air pollution across interconnected energy hubs. The project brings together qualitative research, environmental monitoring, and policy engagement. The project contributes to interdisciplinary approaches to climate research by foregrounding community-level experiences and the social dimensions of environmental data.
