Maaike Rozema

Maaike Rozema is a PhD candidate at the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), working on the Boom to Dust project. She holds a Master’s degree in Anthropology, Environment, and Development from University College London (UCL). Her academic work as an anthropologist focuses on the complex relationships between humans and non-human beings, examining how these connections shape and have shaped our world. For her master’s dissertation, she examined how routinised violence against animals becomes normalised through the material and social conditions in the context of Dutch slaughterhouses.