Viviane Cretton

Viviane Cretton is a professor at the HES-SO Valais-Wallis and an anthropologist specializing in mountain studies. Active in mountain research since 2009, she focuses on social dynamics, human-environment relations, and more-thn-human relationships in mountain worlds. She has co-edited special journal issues, including Living in the Mountains (Quaderns 2022), and published peer-reviewed articles on migration, ordinary racism, and mobilities in alpine regions. Trained in Fiji during the context of a coup d’état, her work is grounded in decolonial approaches, amplifying indigenous and transnational perspectives.