Guadalupe Canale

Guadalupe, who grew up with the vast horizons of the Argentine pampas, is a social anthropologist and maritime professional with over a decade of experience working with people and the sea. Her background blends ethnographic research, expedition tourism, visual arts, and professional seafaring. Through different combinations of these fields, she has gone from the Atlantic and Pacific shores of Patagonia to the rugged Scottish Highlands, from the Caribbean insular heartbeat to the history-filled seaports of the Mediterranean, and from the serenity of Scandinavia to the majesty of Antarctica, gathering different perspectives on the world’s most remote coastal environments.

She is currently undertaking interdisciplinary and comparative PhD research, combining social anthropology with marine biology to investigate the biosocial lives of coastal communities and seaweeds in the North and South Atlantic. Seeking to partner academic knowledge with storytelling, she asks why seaweeds seem to be valuable in different ways in different places, and what this means for the way in which we relate to nature and other living beings.