Rita Kesselring - Excess seen through the global lens: Zambian copper and Swiss commodity trading

About the lecturer

Rita Kesselring is an anthropologist and Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She is the author of Bodies of Truth (2017), Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia’s Northwestern Province (2025) and co-editor of Mother Unknown (2025).