GisaWeszkalnys

Gisa Weszkalnys is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research examines future making as a political, material, and affective practice central to contemporary capitalism, using a mixed-methods toolkit.

This research has included a long-term project tracking the logics at play in offshore hydrocarbon exploration in São Tomé and Príncipe, and the new and deeply racialised resource politics that have emerged in this context. She previously carried out research on city planning in the context of post-socialist transformations in Berlin, Germany, and on modes of interdisciplinarity across the natural and social sciences. She is author or co-author of a number peer-reviewed journal publications as well as the monograph Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany and the volume (co-edited with S.Abram) Elusive Promises: Planning in the Contemporary World.

More recently, Gisa builds on her interest in the multiple temporalities of hydrocarbon extraction as co-I on a UKRI-funded project that seeks to understand trajectories, processes, and consequences of transformation in the UK oil and gas sector, shaped by changing forms of regulation and expertise around the energy transition.