Natasha Fijn
Dr Natasha Fijn is an ethnographic researcher and observational filmmaker based at the Australian National University’s Mongolia Institute. She has conducted extensive field research in remote places, including the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia and Arnhem Land in northern Australia, focussing particularly on multispecies and sensory anthropology and more-than-human sociality. In combination with text, observational films and photo essays form an integral part of her creative research output. She is also a founding member of a conservation organisation, who act as stewards for the land on Plumwood Mountain, a unique bush property consisting of groves of ancient Plumwood trees and ferns, in keeping with an environmental philosophy focussing on the nurturing of both the nature and the culture of place.