Finance Matters in Humanitarian Aid

Description

Susan’s current research projects investigate how “Finance Matters in Humanitarian Aid”. One is a study of venture investment in humanitarian aid financing and the other one examines emerging forms of value in humanitarian aid financing. Both analyze anticipatory and speculative technologies of care. Specifically, Susan is looking at value and risk mediations in humanitarian data and financing mechanisms.

Key publication

Erikson, Susan (2019) "Faking global health." in Critical Public Health 29 (4): 508-516.

Erikson, Susan (2019) "Global health futures? Reckoning with a pandemic bond." in Medicine Anthropology Theory 6 (3): 77-108.

Infrastructures of Value

Christof Lammer

This project asks how infrastructures shape value in the agri-food sector.

Mobilities, Socialities and Pandemics

Andrea Behrends

This project investigates the effects of the Covid-19 containment measures in several countries i...

Life Lived off the Grid

Eva Riedke

The project follows solar off grid products – from their design to their use – and explores how t...

ABOUT THE LOST RESEARCH NETWORK

The acronym LOST stands for Law, Organization, Science and Technology. Anthropology of Law (L), Organization Studies (O), and Science and Technology Studies (ST) are three vibrant transdisciplinary fields. Working at their intersections and merging their approaches, we also emphasize the economic, political, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of fact-making in the present. The ambition of our detailed ethnographies is to respond to long-standing questions raised in social theory and philosophy, and vice versa, to translate these questions into ethnographic inquiry with a particular focus on critique. We address questions of global and planetary scope, although several of our empirical projects are located in Africa. Since its founding in 2002, LOST has grown from a small group based in Halle, Germany, to a decentralized network of independent scholars in many countries. Its vibrant activities have been winding down for a few years so that during 2024 this website is being turned into an archive.