Sarah Green (anthropologist)

Sarah Francesca Green (born 9 March 1961) is a professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Helsinki.

[4] In 2016, Green was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant called Crosslocations, which developed a new theoretical and ethnographic approach towards the study of location, borders and the importance of being somewhere in particular.

Although the subject matter of her research varies considerably, Green’s major conceptual interest has been consistently on the notion of location, and most recently, that have involved a focus on human-animal spatial relations.

Her research is currently focusing on understanding the way people locate, both physically and conceptually, non-human animals and microbes, and how that affects their interactions.

Her previous research included: the politics of gender and sexuality in London; the politics of the intense promotion of Information and Communications Technologies in Manchester; shifting perceptions of environment and land degradation in the Argolid Valley and northwestern Greece; concepts of border relations on the Greek-Albanian border; the appearance, disappearance and reappearance of the Balkans; the circulation of money in the Aegean; the notion of trust and the UK's new financial elites; the shifting concept of border in the eastern peripheries of Europe; and the locational dynamics of the Mediterranean region.

Early on in her career Green participated in Archaeomedes I and II (1993-2000), which were EU-funded projects exploring environmental perceptions and policy making.

EastBordNet was funded by COST (Cooperation of Science and Technology in Europe) in 2008 and Green acted as the PI and chair of the Action.