Laetitia is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, working within the ERC-funded Vital Elements & Postcolonial Moves project (PI: Amade M’charek). Her research investigates how phosphate becomes fertilizer in the Gafsa mining basin (Tunisia), tracing the material and political life of phosphate across landscapes, bodies, and borders. She explores how the making of modern, chemical “fertility” is entangled with the creation of mines and industrial infrastructures, focusing on toxicity, ecological degradation, and the enduring legacies of (post)colonial extraction.
Laetitia holds a BSc in Life Sciences and Philosophy (Erasmus University College, Rotterdam) and an MRes in Environmental Studies (EHESS, Paris). Her work bridges anthropology, science and technology studies, and environmental humanities, and is informed by prior collaborations with European, Indigenous, and Global South activists resisting fossil fuel infrastructures. These experiences continue to shape her commitment to studying extractivism through transdisciplinary, decolonial, and place-based approaches.