Will LaFleur, PhD, is a political and ecological anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher in Social Anthropology and the Ruralia Institute at the University of Helsinki. He specialises in multi-sited sensory ethnography in Italy, Finland, Japan, and the United States, and draws from an interdisciplinary background in anthropology, geography, political ecology, education, development and critical agrarian studies. His doctoral research explored ‘alternative’ agricultural movements and the practices they engage—including compost-making and fermentation—against the grain of specious state agriculture policies, globalised food markets, and corporate food and agriculture regimes. Will’s current research in the Academy of Finland funded project BIOSENSE centres around ways of knowing and making biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Further interests include teaching wild fermentation; future-oriented and activist scholarship; social and labour relations in agroecological futures; global food hygiene regimes; skill and improvisation; degrowth, prefiguration, and anarchism; and satire as scholarly critique
