CUSAS: Social Infrastructure: A Conversation between Anthropology and Policy

“Social Infrastructure: A Conversation between Anthropology and Policy” with Owen Garling, Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson, Dr Mike Degani, and Dr Lalli Metsola

This panel invites a conversation between a recent project that directly responds to UK policy and anthropologists working on social infrastructure in diverse contexts. It highlights how taking a concept from policy can drive research and aims to explore the kinds of ethnographic insights and approaches that might be brought into the sphere of policy recommendations and making. With speakers working in the UK and African contexts, the panel also brings together perspectives from the global north and south which are often kept separate.

Chaired by Dr Anna Wood