Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170101406

Funded Activity Summary

Using anthropology of finance to study disaster relief. This project aims to broaden and re-theorise economic definitions of insurance through ethnographic methodologies and feminist studies of finance. Using responses to weather disasters and the financial products created to cover them, the project will explore cultural understandings of protection and damage through a Latin American case that foregrounds experimental and emerging adaptation. In doing so, the research expects to open new directions in the anthropological study of poverty and contemporary capitalism, and provide working frameworks to understand how financial services can engage meaningfully with communities affected by ever more uncertain weather. This potentially benefits communities managing disaster relief, evidence-based policy development, and public understanding of social and economic protection.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 20-06-2017

End Date: 15-12-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $352,019.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Social and Cultural Anthropology | Anthropology | Culture, Gender, Sexuality | Anthropology of Development |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Gender and Sexualities | International Aid and Development | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture

Other Keywords

Anthropology | Anthropology of Development | Culture, Gender, Sexuality | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Gender and Sexualities | International Aid and Development | Social and Cultural Anthropology

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