Department of Management, Society and Communication

As a political and economic anthropologist, I am concerned with tracing the often uneven and contradictory effects of development and sustainability initiatives, as well as with using insights from ethnographic research to rethink what development and sustainability might mean.

I have carried out much of my research in Kenya, investigating the temporal politics of large-scale infrastructure projects; land reform and the privatization of customary land; the production, labour and trade of ‘sustainable’ commodities; economies of migration and displacement; and financial inclusion initiatives. My current research project, funded by the Danida Fellowship Fund and carried out in collaboration with colleagues from CBS, University of Nairobi and the Institute for Legal and Environmental Governance – Kenya, examines environmental maritime governance in Kenya in the context of international efforts to abate greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.

I hold bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Anthropology from the University of Manchester and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London) and a PhD in African Studies from the University of Copenhagen.