Marie Lecuyer

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University and an incoming visiting fellow at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at Oxford University. 

My research examines more-than-human death and spectral ecologies in the context of climate change. Over the past ten years, I have been exploring the circulation and transformation of waste —at first plastic and then later « necrowaste »— matter in urban spaces and at sea. My upcoming book, Conspirer avec les morts (forthcoming in 2026 with Les Éditions de l'Ogre), is an ethnographic essay that explores the geographies of death in Hong Kong, where accommodating human remains in cemeteries has become an environmental, political, and design challenge for a number of actors in the death-care industry. It is based on extensive fieldwork carried out in the funeral industry and alongside government employees, artists, architects, and urban explorers who each in their own way reinvent and circumvent government policies to care for the dead.