Dennis Munetsi
Doctoral student

Presentation

Dennis Munetsi is a doctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Global Political Studies at the Faculty of Culture and Society, and a member of the WASP-HS doctoral research programme. His teaching spans key areas in International Relations, the Global Politics of AI, Biosocial Ethics, and Applied Statistics in Political Science.

Dennis’s research focuses on the everyday political economy of global reproductive health technologies, particularly digital and AI-driven innovations. He investigates how menstrual tracking applications, developed and disseminated through global tech and data infrastructures, are experienced, negotiated, and reinterpreted in peripheral contexts of technological development. His primary research site is Zimbabwe, where he explores how users, developers, and other social actors engage with these technologies in environments shaped by economic precarity, evolving health systems, and contested knowledge about bodies and reproduction.

His work contributes to interdisciplinary debates in feminist political economy, global health, digital anthropology, and postcolonial science and technology studies. Dennis emphasizes how everyday practices reveal alternative technological imaginaries and inform distinctive forms of reproductive agency in the Global South. His research also bridges critical issues in digital governance, ethics, and the politics of AI, making connections between the global dynamics of technology and local experiences of health and wellbeing.