Saskia Brill, MA

Saskia Brill studied social and cultural anthropology, economics, and communication at LMU Munich and the Université Laval, Québec. During her studies, Saskia focussed on economic aspects of human-environment relationships. In 2012, she spent two months doing field research on an eco-tourism project in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her master’s thesis (2013) is titled “Emissions Trading from an Anthropological Perspective: Greenhouse Gases as Social Agents in Global Networks.” During her studies, she taught the tutorial for anthropology of religion and worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at LMU Munich.

Dissertation Project

Negotiating Air: Cultural Perceptions of Greenhouse Gases

Selected Publications

• Emissionshandel aus Ethnologischer Perspektive: Treibhausgase als soziale Mittler in globalen Netzen [Emissions Trading from an Ethological Perspective: Greenhouse Gases as Social Mediators in Global Networks]. Munich: Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich, 2015. https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/publikationen/studien/16_brill_emissionshandel.pdf.