Joint Doctoral Student in Anthropology and History
About
Areas/Fields of Study
International political economy • Legal History • History of African political thought • Southern African mineral extractives and financial capital outflows • Modern formation of offshore and non-sovereign tax haven states.
Affiliations
- Department of Anthropology
- Program in Race Law and History, University of Michigan Law School
Research Interests
I study the modern formation of non-sovereign tax haven states in the Caribbean and financial capital outflows from Southern African mineral extractives. I explore this Africa-Caribbean connection to historicise and theorise international political economy, intellectual history, and political thought.
My background is in financial accounting and taxation, and I was signed with Ernst and Young in South Africa. Thereafter I worked with unions and social movements which were a part of the Economic Justice Network in Southern Africa tackling profit shifting, and I led research and campaigns on corporate mining taxation. Simultaneously, I enrolled for my MA in Sociology.
When I started my master’s, it was with the intention of conducting fieldwork in the DRC and writing my thesis on artisanal mining. Covid happened, and I ended up writing on non-sovereign tax havens in the Caribbean through a developmental history of the British Virgin Islands. After submitting my MA dissertation, I undertook additional campaign work seeking compensation for ex mineworkers affected by TB or silicosis. I now mostly work independently as a research consultant, organiser, and policy lobbyist.
For my doctoral research, I’ll be aiming to use the ambitions of the New International Economic Order as a departing point to revisit the political thought which attempted to grapple with and theorise conditions that can secure freedom and a just world.
You may visit my personal website to learn more about my background and interests.
