Author Biography
Filipe Calvão joined the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in 2013. As a socio-cultural anthropologist, his research lies at the intersection between nature, culture and capital in postcolonial Africa, with a focus on extractive economies, mining labor and corporate governance. In his published work, he examines the social and cultural relations binding mining communities and corporations, the materiality of minerals and labor in the global south. He has taught on global extractive networks, the anthropology of corporations, illicit economies, secrecy and surveillance, work and labor, and social theory.
