Julie Solevad

I am a PhD researcher on the PROTEINSCAPES team. My background is in anthropology, having previously obtained my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Aberdeen and Utrecht University, respectively. My country case is Denmark, where I study different landscapes of pig and pork production and consumption. Through ethnographic fieldwork across multiple sites, I trace the lives and afterlives of production spaces, pig handlers, and the pigs themselves, paying attention to how pork production is lived, governed, remembered, and contested. My research explores how changing political, environmental, and economic conditions—such as debates around sustainability, animal welfare, and agricultural restructuring—are experienced in everyday practices and places. By moving between rural production sites and urban political and consumption contexts, I examine how place-specific relations to pigs and pork shape broader questions of value, belonging, and transition in contemporary Denmark.