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Paloma Yáñez Serrano
Paloma Yáñez Serrano is an award-winning independent ethnographic filmmaker and social anthropologist interested in the methods of adaptation that humans develop to address the changing environment, technology and political conflicts. Her Ph.D. in social anthropology with visual media, at the University of Manchester, focuses on farmers’ and labourers’ everyday survival strategies in Almería’s plastic sea, in southern Spain. It explores workers’ embodied adaptations and resistances to industrial agriculture practices and the possibilities of agroecology. Paloma currently works at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (UAM), conducting ethnographic research on experiences of heat in adults over 65 for the research project ‘Embodying Climate Change: Transdisciplinary Research on Urban Overheating’ (EmCliC). She also leads the production company Big Tree Collective and the Visual Research Network. She has published in Teaching Anthropology and Visual Ethnography, and her work has been awarded with the University of Manchester’s Research Excellence Award and the EASA Food Network Award.
Contact: The School of Social Sciences, Arthur Lewis Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.