ABOUT MY WORK

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My research interests lie at the intersection of labor and work politics, their social and structural organizations, and the associated collective and social mobilization and activities. I am particularly interested in the lives of working people and their communities and how the concept of work (and labor) becomes embedded in daily cultural and social actions, processes, and contexts. My work bridges the humanities and social sciences, specifically anthropology, sociology, political science, and human geography.
My most recent work was part of a larger Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-funded project called Frontier Settlements: Territories of Artisan Mining Labor in Africa, which looks into the political, social, cultural, and network connections that allow extractive labor to become embedded in the local context, revealing the conditions under which extractive frontiers emerge in contexts where natural resource extraction and commodification are frequently highly contested.

About my work

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