Alix LEVAIN

Alix Levain is a Research Fellow in Anthropology at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Her research focuses on lived experiences of contemporary ecological upheavals, the politics of knowledge, and the affects associated with ecosystem degradation. Grounded in a public anthropology perspective, her work examines transformations in coastal environments through a historical and comparative analysis of the emergence of issues surrounding algal proliferation and water pollution.

Her doctoral thesis, defended in 2014, explored the lived experience of green tides in Brittany. Since 2019, Alix Levain has been involved in a major collaborative research project on the Yellow Vests movement and the cahiers citoyens (citizens' registers), coordinated by M. Della Sudda, with a particular focus on the relationship to ecology among those involved in the movement.

Her work has been published in Techniques & Culture, Environment & Society, Nature Sciences Sociétés, Environmental Sociology, Land Use Policy and Science of the Total Environment. She has also recently co-edited Elusive Partners: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives on Marine Species (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle Editions, 2023) and Des vies avec des plages : expériences, relations, devenirs (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024).