Nastassja Martin

Nastassja Martin is an anthropologist and holds the Junior Professorship in Earth’s Habitability and Just Transitions (ISJPS, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, 2023–2026). She studied at EHESS under the supervision of Philippe Descola. She devoted her dissertation to the Gwich’in, an Indigenous people of northeastern Alaska, which formed the basis of her first book, Les Âmes sauvages: Face à l’Occident, la résistance d’un peuple d’Alaska (Wild Souls: An Alaskan People’s Resistance to the West) (La Découverte, 2016).

Her research develops a comparative anthropology of responses to environmental crises, with a focus on subarctic Indigenous cosmologies. After Alaska, she investigated the Even people of Kamchatka, whose ways of life were first reshaped by Soviet colonization and then contemporary extractivism. This work resulted in À l’est des rêves: Réponses even aux crises systémiques (To the East of Dreams: Even Responses to Systemic Crises) (La Découverte, 2022), in which performative dreams and mythical narratives engage with colonial logics and ecological disruption, as well as Croire aux fauves (In the Eye of the Wild) (Verticales, 2019).

Her current professorship extends this research, notably through a study on green hydrogen in Chile.