Interrogating Development Seminar: "Economies of Care"
Schedule
Wed Mar 11 2026 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Bush House South East Wing, King's College London | London, EN
About this Event
Join us for an exciting talk with Dr. Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh, an economic anthropologist based in Norwich, where she will talk about her new book, Economies of Care: Market women and gift economies in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The books is based on research conducted in 2013-2014 in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and further visit in 2019 with market women who are the growers and sellers of fresh garden produce.
To debate her work, Professor Laura Camfield (Department of International Development) will act as discussant.
About the speaker
With interest in gender, climate change, decolonisation and food systems, Olivia became an economic anthropologist interested in questions of value and alternatives to mainstream economic doctrine. She has post-graduate training in Development studies from SOAS and afterwards found herself doing a PhD in anthropology at the University of Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand, initially without really knowing what it was! She has now worked on multiple projects including an interdisciplinary project at the University of Exeter regarding non-communicable diseases in the Caribbean and post-colonial food systems, a project focused on experiences of divine love at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and more recently a project about units and measurements of value at the University of Helsinki. She has taught anthropology at Goldsmiths, Exeter and multiple universities in New Zealand and is research fellow at the Sainsbury Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. She is currently based in Norwich, where she is finishing up research with a diverse multi-ethnic community of Sufi Muslims with anti-modernity and anti-capitalist ideologies and using film and writing to grapple with their questions of money, love, faith and her own.
About the Interrogating Development Seminar Series
The 'Interrogating Development' seminar series is organised by the Department of International Development at King's College London. The series examines some of the most pressing issues of development facing global society today, with the authors of new books presenting cutting-edge research on a variety of topics related to development.
The talk will be followed by a wine reception. The event is open to everyone.
Where is it happening?
Bush House South East Wing, King's College London, Room 2.09, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 0.00
