Fern Thompsett

Fern Thompsett is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on contemporary responses to climate change. Specifically, she works with members of the Anti-Civilization Movement in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, whose politics revolve around an anti-colonial critique of mass agriculture. Fern is interested in the ways in which these political orientations motivate people to build alternative worlds based on more just and egalitarian relationships between humans and more-than-human beings, and what these worlds look like in practice. Previously, she published work on free universities, which are community-based study projects based on non-hierarchical relationships of teaching and learning.