Iryna Zamuruieva
Iryna Zamuruieva is a researcher and artist interested in human-environmental relations. At the University of Oxford, Iryna continues to develop her project “A Field from Afar” – an interdisciplinary investigation into the environmental history and political ecology of agriculture in Ukraine. Focusing on rapeseed, Iryna’s research tells a long history of how trans-imperial, capitalist and multispecies relations shape life, labour and ecologies in Ukraine. Iryna blends archival, ethnographic and quantitative research with her own photography in an attempt to grasp why landscapes are the way they are today.
Across her work, both written and photographic, Iryna explores how we pay attention to historical, political and ecological entanglements, questions of resistance and complicity, and the material and symbolic relations between language and landscape.
Prior to joining Oriel College and Oxford School of Global and Area Studies Iryna worked on climate adaptation, land use and environmental policy in Scotland and Ukraine, was an artist in residence at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow and a research fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. Iryna is also a co-editor of the Commons journal.
Iryna holds a BSc from the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences in Ukraine and an MSc from the University of Kiel.
Iryna’s doctoral research is funded by the Clarendon Fund, Helmore Graduate Scholarship, and Scatcherd European Scholarship. It is supervised by historian Dr Zbig Wojnowski and anthropologist Dr Nicolette Makovicky.
