Anne Gough’s research interests intersect at the nexus of landscape transformations, experimental geography and power relations. Her questions center on historical and current multispecies – nature relationships in the Mediterranean. She is currently exploring freedom of movement, agency and access to landscapes through practice-based research for her PhD thesis (working title Who is Secure? Trespassing, traversing and bordering fortified landscapes) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She is part of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, which is situated in the Division of the History of Science, Technology and Environment. She collaborates on the research theme Xenophobic Natures under the supervision of Nina Wormbs and Marco Armiero.

Her background is in critical approaches to food security and evolving struggles for food sovereignty. She lived in Beirut Lebanon for two years where she gained experience as a research assistant with the Institute of Palestine Studies and as an instructor at the American University of Beirut, working with Rami Zurayk and the research collective Thimar.

Anne is also a former contemporary dancer and was part of a series of dance film shorts created and shot in Lebanon. The goal of a reflexive research practice, one engaged with asking how the spaces of research are produced is a continual motivation for Anne and she looks forward to exploring this in the seminars and events of the Anthropocene Campus. Following from artist Alfredo Yaar, Anne is consumed with questions, practices and ideas about “the representation of geography and the intricacies of global relations”.