Laura McAdam-Otto
Laura McAdam-Otto is an ethnographer and cultural anthropologist. She currently leads the research project “Making Algae (In-)Visible: Tourism, Responsibility and Governance in the Caribbean” as Principle Investigator at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Her research is situated at the nexus of cultural anthropology, nature-culture debates, and science and technology studies, and focuses on questions of human-environment relations in the Caribbean. With a strong focus on the Riviera Maya in Mexico, the research project discusses how responsibility for environmental change is negotiated and distributed in the Anthropocene, bringing questions of environmental justice and governance to the fore.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: The Caribbean, with a focus on Mexico, Yucatán Peninsula