Miriam Waltz

Miriam Waltz is assistant professor in gender justice and health technologies with a joint appointment between the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology and the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. Her research will focus on the development of an interdisciplinary hub on health technologies in Africa.

2 articles contributed

‘How pesticides enter the body’: Porosity and growth in Western Kenya

Miriam Waltz

Posted on October 8, 2023

In a remote church building in the Southwest of Kenya, Arthur Ouko was training farmers on ‘responsible use of pesticides.’

Introduction: Metabolic thinking and the predicaments of growth in Africa

Noémi Tousignant ,
Véra Ehrenstein ,
Sandra Calkins ,
Thomas Cousins ,
Branwyn Poleykett and
Miriam Waltz

Posted on October 2, 2023

Metabolic thinking deals in bounded organisms, regulated systems, and the calculated (self)-optimisation of responsible, profitable, and healthful nutritive and energetic transactions.