Melody Howse
Melody Howse is an Interdisciplinary Researcher, filmmaker and writer from Belize & UK.
Her work is on racial encounters and the body where she is interested in the sensory and haptic registers of reception, Black diaspora creative practices of refusal and the reconfiguration of the archive. She is currently a Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Halle, Germany in the Department ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance.’ Melody holds a PhD in Social and Cultural anthropology from Leipzig University and an MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to re-entering the academy, Melody worked as a filmmaker for commercial television and documentaries. She has published work in the edited volumes such as – To Exist is to resist: Black Feminism in Europe (2019) Ethnographic Respiration: The politics and Poetics of Breath/ing (Routledge 2024) Ambivalent Activism: Working with Contradiction, Hesitation and Doubt for Social Change (Bristol University Press 2024) and The Handbook of Sensory Criminology (Routledge, 2024)
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