Tori Ball

PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology

Tori Ball (they/them) is currently completing fieldwork for their PhD. Hailing from the south-east of Australia, Tori’s thesis is a work of ‘Anthropology at home’ focusing on a farming town and its surrounding region, exploring different ways people are responding to climate change. Tori’s research is focusing on the cultural impacts of the commodification of water, multiple and overlapping histories as well as community-driven implementation of climate adaptative technologies. This research is grounded in lineages of environmental and economic anthropology and settler colonial studies. Prior to undertaking this PhD Tori completed an Honours thesis at the University of Melbourne, conducting ethnographic fieldwork into the anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown movement arising immediately following the COVID19 pandemic.