Emily De Wet
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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About Emily
My research includes work in South Africa on how townships are situated in the post-Apartheid era, with attention to the ways that residents shape spaces that are seen as historically, economically, and politically marginal into social and meaningful 鈥渃enters.鈥� In this work, I explore how residents experience 鈥渢ownship vibes鈥� and how vibes shape the geography of townships alongside other realities such as lack of resources and poverty related crime. I use mapping as a central method alongside other ethnographic methods and spend time doing 鈥渨alking tours鈥� with my interlocutors. I have also studied the informal and formal meat industries in South Africa where I ask questions about how food, and in particular, meat, reveal complex dynamics of race and class in Cape Town.
Broadly, my current work continues my research interests in structural violence, food systems, and meat consumption, as I am developing projects looking at meat food chains in South Africa, and on meat consumption in the United States. This work explores multispecies harms across food systems 鈥� considering impacts on farmed animals, human workers, consumers, human and nonhuman community members, and the wider environment.
I have also worked as a qualitative researcher on public health related research projects and program evaluation in the United States.