Felicia Hedetoft

PhD project

Living together in the precarity of the Anthropocene and climate change calls for more attention on how interspecies relations play out, continue, and end in everyday life. Who decides what gets to live and die at “the end of the world”? What kind of (and whose) work plays a part in the decision? And what roles do non-human actors have in such categorisation processes?

My PhD project aims to explore these questions by asking them in and to domestic gardens – spaces of backyard Nature and ownership where humans, nonhumans, the private/public, and multiple temporalities co-mingle. My geographical focus is on southern Sweden, where I conduct in-depth walking interviews with garden owners and multispecies ethnography in the messiness of garden lives (deaths, and afterlives). 

With a specialisation in environmental issues in sociology, I have been supervising undergraduate students writing their theses on such issues – on topics spanning from environmental activism to forest bathing. 

I am currently teaching students on a BIDS course in environmental sociology, with a focus on more-than-human approaches, and criminology students in qualitative methodology (interviewing and participant observation). 

I have previously studied in the United Kingdom, with an MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance from the University of Oxford and a BA in Sociology with Criminology from the University of York.

Since my master's graduation in 2019, I have been working with communication towards private and public actors in areas like nature conservation, nature protection, and sustainable healthcare.