An embodied enquiry into alternative agriculture in Morocco and Switzerland (PhD of Andrea Mathez)

September 7, 2026
Presentation of the thesis at the public defence, Sept. 2026

What are those magic moments that make farmers practising alternative agricultures feel that they are doing the right thing? Perhaps it isn’t the headline ideological commitments, but instead little glimpses during the humdrum of daily life.  Andrea Mathez unravels these ideas, mixing ethnographic work in Morocco and Switzerland, philosophical considerations of hope, utopia, and enchantment, and embodied participatory engagements with goats, weeds, water and between farmers from the two places.

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