Emilie Glazer is an anthropologist whose research explores care, justice, and political violence in the changing ecologies of the climate crisis. Her PhD, completed at University College London and supported by the Wellcome Trust, traced the affective politics of water infrastructure across the city of Jerusalem and beyond its borders. Together with colleagues from the Royal College of Art and the Fiction Council, in 2024 she was awarded a grant from Art Jameel and the British Council for a collaboration exploring rain as a site of weaponisation and potential for liberation. She has taught at UCL Anthropology and served as visiting tutor to the Underground Palestine studio at the Royal College of Art. Alongside academia, Emilie has produced interdisciplinary community and place-based projects, and worked as a design researcher. She holds a Masters in Anthropology from University College London and a BA in Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology from the University of Oxford.

Research interests

• Political violence, empire, and ecological crisis
• Temporality and scale beyond the liberal state
• Water and ecological relations
• Affective politics, imagination, reparation and refusal
• Infrastructure
• Care
• Palestine/Israel

Teaching

Lived Democracy (semester two)

Latest publications

Glazer, Emilie. 2024. “Affective Currents of the Present Tense”, In “Back to the Present” edited by Timothy P.A. Cooper, Michael Edwards & Nikita Simpson, American Ethnologist website, January 26 2024, [https://americanethnologist.org/online-content/collections/back-to-the-present/affective-currents-of-the-present-tense/]